SHSAT Roundtable
PLACE NYC will host a Roundtable to discuss parent concerns and contingency planning for taking the SHSAT in fall 2020. The Roundtable will be limited… Read More »SHSAT Roundtable
PLACE NYC will host a Roundtable to discuss parent concerns and contingency planning for taking the SHSAT in fall 2020. The Roundtable will be limited… Read More »SHSAT Roundtable
New York, June 8, 2020 — Last week the Department of Education completed their Admissions Engagement meetings in each borough with 67% of speakers advocating to… Read More »Two-Thirds Majority of NYC Parents and Students Ask the DOE to Preserve Academic Screening
The DOE held Listening Events across the five boroughs. In the scheduled 2 hours for each, only a small fraction of those who signed up… Read More »Dear DOE: Here are my comments on screened admissions.
The voices at this event echoed the majority of parents we heard at the DOE borough events: keep screened admissions.Our families are from all racial… Read More »June 4 Admissions Engagement with DOE Leadership
Parents are rightly suspicious that the DOE is using Covid to try to dismantle academically screened schools. The DOE claims that the admissions changes are a one… Read More »The Engagement is “Off” – OPINION
PLACE NYC is hosting the DOE to meet with our members to collect ideas and perspectives on admissions for fall 2021. This will be a… Read More »Admissions Engagement
“It might be problematic for word to get out that the DOE is encouraging folks to make noise,” wrote anti-testing activist Miriam Nunberg. But word… Read More »‘Unbiased’ Department of Education just got caught playing rank politics
“But in an email to parent groups sent last week, Miriam Nunberg, co-chair of the New York City Alliance for School Integration and Desegregation, said… Read More »Emails: NYC DOE wants groups opposed to competitive school admissions to get louder
PLACE NYC is hosting an event to help parents understand the decision makers and process for education advocacy. Virtual Zoom Event: Monday June 8, 2020… Read More »PLACE NYC Event: Primer on Parent Advocacy
New York, May 20, 2020 — In just 48 hours, more than 2,000 people signed PLACE NYC’s petition urging Governor Cuomo and other state and… Read More »Over 2,000 Rushed to Sign Petition to “Stop Carranza from Using the COVID Crisis to Overhaul School Admission Policies”