Mark your calendar for our next meeting where we will be having a NYS Prop 1 Townhall. Learn more about the New York States Parent Replacement Act (Prop 1) on the ballot this November. We will answer questions about the implications of the vague constitutional amendment, what it will do to our parental rights, and share ways you can get involved to help educate others.
At the Regents’ Nov 2024 meeting, they’re scheduled to approve a plan to implement the “Blue” Ribbon Commission on Graduation Measures. Except it’s not just about eliminating the Regents and Advanced diplomas, it’s about changing our focus away from scholarship, merit, academic excellence and achievement onto “Culturally Responsive” education. In order for “all students” to receive an achievable diploma in the name of DEI, they profess that massive changes are needed.
Everything K-12 will be grounded in the CRSE framework where students are urged to take action for “social justice”, to “challenge inequitable systems of access, power, and privilege”, to overcome the oppression of their “identity markers” (ie race, gender, ability etc).
The report calls for “adequate funding. Think more teachers for this “personalized” learning and new electives. Think teacher time away from students, professional development pay and substitute costs as new Standards are rewritten. Think pricey contracts for consultants and assessment developers. Think new textbooks and resources that are sanitized with the CRSE “lens”.
Taxpayers will be burdened with the costs and local school boards will say they have no control since it will be a state mandate.
Parents and taxpayers need to be alerted and request the the Regents to reject this by writing before Oct 6 to: [email protected].
The Commission Recommendations can be found at here.
If you do nothing else, read the Vision (p8/9) and the Glossary (p 60). The Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework can be found here.
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