Education Committee

DL21C's Education Committee provides its participants with an in-depth look at NYC's education system through exposure to leading education advocates, reformers and policy makers. The goal is to increase our knowledge of the system, its players and reform options so that we may effect positive change for NYC children.

DL21C's Education Commitee is a small subset of DL21C's membership that meets regularly in informal settings to have in-depth discussions with policy advocates, public officials, political operatives and community leaders who are specialists in an aspect of the public education system of The City of New York. The goal of the committee is to to mobilize an informed pro-public education constituency and effect positive change. Please join us in our venture to work our way through this notoriously complicated, but critically important, part of our government.

More Past Events:

Ray Domanico, Public Education Association, Overview of the Public School System, April 22, 1998

Janet Atwell, Education Priorities Panel, on New York State's School Funding System, May 13, 1998

Jonathan Rosenberg, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, on Special Education and Gifted Programs, June 2, 1998

Robert Hughes, Campaign for Fiscal Equity, on CFE's lawsuit challenging New York's school funding system, July 30, 1998

Laura Dukess, New Visions for Public Schools, on the school governance legislation and its implementation, September 16, 1998

Norm Fruchter, Institute for Education and Social Policy, on the history of public education and current reform efforts, October 7, 1998

Robert Hughes, Campaign for Fiscal Equity, on school governance and status of principals' contract, November 11, 1998.

Barbara Jaccoma, Council of Supervisors and Administrators, on principal tenure and collective bargaining, November 19, 1998.

Beth Lief, President and CEO of New Visions for Public Schools, on New Visions Schools and charter school law, December 1, 1998.

Dr. Rebecca Cort, Statewide Coordinator for Special Education Quality Assurance, on special education reform, May 26, 1999.

Kavitha Mediratta, Program Director, NYU Institute for Education & Social Policy, on school construction reform, August 24, 1999.

Join the Committee!

To join the Education Committee, please contact DL21C at contact-dl21c@dl21c.org.