The time is now to call on all NY State, NYC Council & Borough Representatives to conduct a Full & Complete AUDIT with open public hearings on 20 years of Mayoral Control— before any extension is granted to Mayor Adams.

CLICK HERE to download and print the 3-page PDF version. If it agrees with your sensibilities, then join us in demanding support from your own elected representative at the NY State and City levels. Call their offices and email them the Resolution.

Please share your activism! Use social media and circulate this Resolution document amongst your parent, teacher, student circles and personal networks. Please let us know how we can support your efforts by emailing us on our contact page. “In Unity there is Strength.”

Decisions about mayoral control cannot be made in the dark or on political whim. Yes, we certainly understand that many in NYC prefer the pragmatic route of tweeking the existing governance system by giving CECs more voice in how the Mayor manages his control over them, especially at the PEP level.

Our support for public school parents as rights holders has never changed. We support all public school parents who struggle to tweek the current mayoral control system, but in this “mean” time, we also think there should be a very short time limit to these tweeks. Unified parent power can do more to end mayoral control.

• We are calling for a thorough accounting of all that’s taken place in the controlled governance of education.

• That means a full and complete accounting Audit— with simultaneous city-wide public hearings conducted to uncover the truth about mayoral control and the harm done to our school communities over the last 20 years.

• We’re talking about all school building facilities, effects of co-locations, over-crowding, teaching and learning, testing and programming, curriculum outcomes, hiring and firing, policing, suspensions, safety, grievances, law suits, food and health services— every bit that’s been hidden from the public’s view must be examined and out in the open as well.

• In addition to the accounting/data Audit, we want city-wide public hearings open to all to give testimony that will shine a needed light on the outcomes, the money spent, the contracts and vendors that have and haven’t benefitted our students, teachers, and schools, on how changing regulations have effectively silenced parent involvement, student learning, and community voices.

• We need a microscope put to the budget— and introspection on the effects of testing and over-testing, data collection, and privacy.

• We need the law abided by for smaller classes and healthy school buildings. And we need a complete historical record of what parents, students, and teachers have repeatedly grieved, protested against, rallied for, petitioned for, and said at PTA, SLT, CECS, CPAC, and the PEP for years.

• In order for us to hold our elected representatives accountable in their next election, we need them to do their jobs via a formal investigation and public report on what has and hasn’t worked in 20 years of absolute control and political deal-making with corporate profiteers and privatizers concerning the mis-education and mis-handling of millions of NYC students’ educations, and the billions upon billions of dollars supposedly spent on their behalf.

We will not compromise on the goal of having NYC be the human rights in education and democracy in school governance model for the nation. Help us get the Audit on Mayoral Control accomplished, and work with us to envision a brand new system of inclusion, equity, and equality based on human rights, anti-racism, and democracy that can be written as legislation, sponsored, and passed as NY State Education Law. Finally.