The need for more transparency, accountability and parent input with the new state & federal school funds; guest NeQuan McLean, President of CEC 16

21/04/2021 55 min Episodio 57
The need for more transparency, accountability and parent input with the new state & federal school funds; guest NeQuan McLean, President of CEC 16

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Resources:Mayor de Blasio’s agreement to fully fund schools’ Fair Student Funding (FSF) formula next yearLocal Law 17 of 2019 to create a Fair Student Funding Task Force that would release a report by Sept. 30, 2019 with recommendations on how to improve the FSF formula; which was never releasedTestimony of Shino Tanikawa, member of the FSF Taskforce, on how the FSF formula discourages smaller classesCity Council proposal to spend $250 million on class size reduction next yearCourt decision requiring the city test charter school students and staff for Covid and city’s appeal of this decisionFor more information about the April 26 CEC 16 Community Town Hall about School Safety, go to https://www.cec16.org/  or email [email protected] link to register for the webinar is: https://nycdoe.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WmP4QVh7T3mxdj5vbjBCJw .