The NYC primary is today! You can find your voting place here. We’d like to warn you that many of the negative ads you may be seeing online, on TV or in mailings are actually products of “stealth” campaigns; i.e. they do not mention what the real motive is behind their critiques. For example, $24 […]
Dear public education supporter: Today through Sunday June 22, 2024 is early voting; Election day is Tuesday June 25, 2024. Check your polling place and hours here. And please vote for the defenders of public education who we’ve endorsed. Former NYC principal Jamaal Bowman deserves your support, based on his education record representing CD 16. […]
NYC Kids PAC is proud to endorse Rep. Jamaal Bowman to be re-elected to Congress in CD 16, who has led the fight for a Green New Deal for schools, smaller classes and less testing and more teaching. Please vote for him in the Democratic primary on June 25. We are also endorsing five progressive […]
On Saturday May 11 at 10:30 AM, NYC Kids PAC will be holding our annual Parent Action Conference, via Zoom, co-sponsored by Class Size Matteres. Our keynote speakers, Sen. John Liu and CUNY Law professor Natalie Gomez-Velez, the co-author of the NYSED study of Mayoral control, will discuss why this fundamentally flawed system was renewed […]
Our Annual Parent Conference online on Saturday June 1 was a great success. Nearly one hundred people attended in all, and you can check out the program here for the day’s events, along with many presentations and videos. We also have a short survey for those who attended to let us know your views and […]
Check out our endorsements for the NYC primaries — NYC Kids PAC endorsements for City Council candidates running in June 27 primary: Carlina Rivera, Erik Bottcher, Carmen de la Rosa, Pierina Sanchez, Althea Stevens, Tiffany Caban, Shekar Krishnan, Julie Won, Lynn Schulman, Lincoln Restler, Jennifer Guttierez, Chi Osse, Sandy Nurse, Alexa Aviles, Shahana Hanif, Rita […]
Join us for for our Annual Parent Action Conference on June 10, 2023, co-sponsored by Class Size Matters, for a full day of workshops and presentations on how you as a parent can make a difference in our schools. Including information on reining in charter school expansion and abuse, fighting school budget cuts, improving language […]
Dear all — It has come to our attention that DOE has sent out threatening letters to the candidates we endorsed for the Citywide and Community Education Council elections, telling them it is illegal for them to publicize our endorsements. We want to make clear that none of the candidates whom we endorsed ever solicited […]
So far this email has received no reply. If we do get a response we will post it here. Sent: Monday, May 1, 2023 5:29 PM To: Dekock Paola <PDeKock@schools.nyc.gov>; Elections2023 <Elections2023@schools.nyc.gov>; Melendez Cristina <cmelendez15@schools.nyc.gov> Dear Paola and the entire election team at FACE: As the political outreach chair and the head of NYC Kids […]
All public school parents can vote this year for the members of Citywide and District Community Education Councils. These councils are our local school boards which give input on educational policies, evaluate district superintendents, and have approval power over school rezonings. Here is a short video made by Fatima Geidi, a Kids PAC board member, […]