United to Counter The Common Core Agenda Through Mobilization

A Forum on Corporate School Reform and a Public Vision for Public Education


This Public Forum welcomes 
parents, rank and file teachers from across the region, and concerned citizens.

FEATURED SPEAKERS
• Buffalo’s Dr. Mark Garrison is engaging, knowledgeable and funny in how he explains the “big” picture of education “reform.” Mark exposes how current federal and state policies such as high-stakes testing, common core and charter schools exclude the public from decision making. Dr. Garrison is currently a Professor of Education Policy & Research in the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program at D’Youville College, Buffalo, New York.

• New York City’s Leonie Haimson is the Executive Director of Class SizeMatters, a leading nonprofit advocacy organization. She was instrumental in exposing and blocking the inBloom database that NYS planned to impose on all public school students. Leonie is also a founding member of Parents across America, a national organization dedicated to putting parents' voice in public education.

• Eric L. Mihelbergel is a parent and activist with New York State Allies for Public Education (NYSAPE). He will discuss ongoing work to empower families by refusing state assessments. 

• Presentations and discussion will focus on the “corporate reform agenda”, including privatization through the expansion of charter schools, including co-location models; high-stakes testing; and merit pay. Presenters will show how these and related policies have been adopted in New York City and across the country resulting in deteriorating conditions for public education, and increasingly unpopular with students, parents, teachers and communities. The forum will serve to elaborate alternatives to the dismantling of public education.

Come learn, share, and join the movement to support public education for all.

Saturday, November 15 at 12:30 pm at the beautiful
Karpeles Library Museum
Located at 453 Porter Avenue Buffalo NY