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Two Paths – Time to Make the Choice
There are two educational models before us: On the one hand, there is the model of the so-called stakeholders at the table. At the head of the table is the billionaire Mayor. Sitting at his right, his stooge the Chancellor of the Department of Education. Sitting at his left, the mayoral members of the Panel…
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Promoting a People’s Board of Education
The way we get to a goal is as important as the goal itself. More accurately stated, the way we get to a goal is inseparable from and determines how thegoal turns out. So the process of struggle in arriving at a People’s Board of Education is crucial. It should not be only the product…
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The Fight for Popular Control of Education
Riding the wave of the Southern civil rights movement and the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the struggle in the North against the separate and unequal, racist public school system grew more intense. In New York City Rev. Milton Galamison assumed the leadership of that struggle, but he was taking over struggles…
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Organizing for Organizing’s Sake
We are not about organizing for organizing’s sake. We are trying to organize a political force capable of changing our society in fundamental ways. And we understand that the only force capable of doin£ so are the masses of the people, people who are conscious of their fundamental interests, who are confident in their ability,…
