To All Current and Future Public School Families
To All Current and Future Public School Families
For those of you with children under four, this will impact you very soon. For those of you
who have older children, we need your support.
Please sign this petition to put elementary admissions back in the hands of schools
http://www.gopetition.com/online/20080.html
When the DOE recently made elementary admissions a centralized process:
Many families wrongfully received rejections from their older children's schools.
Many other families never applied because the new system was not publicized well enough
or required application in English. (Supplementary materials was provided in other
languages, but not the application).
Any type of zoning confusion or other discrepancy resulted in a rejection.
Centralizing admissions costs money that would be better spent directly on creating
stronger schools for our kids. It alienates families by furthering the impression of an
impersonal bureaucracy.
Without some admission of error, we have no reason to believe that the same mistakes
won't be made again next year.
Send the DOE a message.
Sign the petition.
http://www.gopetition.com/online/20080.html
Pass this letter on to other listservs (sign your own name), print the petition out and get
signatures.
We hope to have a critical mass by Friday, June 27th to send to Joel Klein and the Office of
School Enrollment.
Yours in solidarity,
Liz Rosenberg
Thanks to the Pre-K list-serve and Kemala Karmen for feedback while drafting this!
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