February 12, 2016 Dear NYS Board of Regents & Commissioner of Education Elia: New York State Allies for Public Education (NYSAPE) is a parent-led grassroots coalition of over 50 parent and educator groups from every corner of our state. On January 15th, NYSAPE called on the NYS Board of Regents to postpone the election of a new…
January 27, 2016 Mr. Tim Kremer, Executive Director New York State School Boards Association 24 Century Hill Drive, Suite 200 Latham, NY 12110-2125 Dear Mr. Kremer, This letter is in response to your commentary titled, “ Take yes for an answer ,” in the January 25th edition of NYSSBA’s On Board . We would like…
January 8, 2016To Commissioner Elia and the Board of Regents: It has come to our attention that the Board of Regents recently approved a new grant from the Gates Foundation forthe Regents Research Fund, “to support NYS to launch, execute and utilize implementation data collection at the state level.”iWe have many questions as to the…
January 5, 201!s. Ann “#alen, Senior Ad$isor %.S. &epart’ent of Education(00 !aryland A$enue, S”“as#ington, &) 20201&ear !s. “#alen * %S &epart’ent of Education, Please allow us, the parents, to respond to your latest threats towards our school districts, school officials, educators, and children. Every school district and school official in NY offered the State assessments to…
Dear Governor Cuomo:
NYS Allies for Public Education (NYSAPE), a coalition of 50 parent and educator groups state wide, calls upon the Governor’s Office to immediately release the 2015-16 state aid projections with the preliminary estimate of school aids payable under NYS Education Code section 3609, plus other aids.
We, the undersigned members of NYS Allies for Public Education (NYSAPE), are writing in response to the December 18th letter to the Commissioner and Chancellor that Mr. Malatras wrote on your behalf.