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2024 Year in Review

As we celebrated our fifth year of advocacy in September, it is time to take a look back and reflect upon what we accomplished together.

PLACE NYC Urges the Panel for Education Policy to Approve the SHSAT Contract

PLACE NYC urges the Panel for Education Policy (PEP) to approve the contract with Pearson Inc. to provide the test used to admit NYC students to the eight Specialized High Schools.

2024 November General Election Endorsements

NY State Senate State Senate District 11 (Queens)Yiatin Chu – Republican State Senate District 15 (Queens)Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. – Democrat State Senate District 17 (Brooklyn)Steve Chan &#…

PLACE NYC Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary and Reaffirms Mission in Advocating for High Quality, Rigorous Public Education

PLACE NYC is proud to celebrate five years of advocacy, led by our newly elected board of parent volunteers. Our community of families from all five boroughs with children across all grades in New Yor…

PLACE NYC 2024 ADMISSIONS SURVEY RESULTS – Parents Denounce NYCPS School Admissions Lotteries, Demand Return to Objective Test for G&T and More Accelerated Programs

New York City – Over 450 public school parents responded to the PLACE NYC Admissions Survey after the release of New York City Public Schools’ (NYCPS) Kindergarten, Middle and High School offers for t…

PLACE NYC Announces New Executive Board

NEW YORK, NY – PLACE NYC (Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education) announces the election on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 of a new executive board. Two new Executive Board members will jo…

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