This election day protest is shaping up into a great event! Those crafty Brooklyn parents are putting together a dramatic event to protest budget cuts to education and demand that the governor not allow the millionaires' tax to sunset. They are bringing their children who will be selling 1.4 billion dollar cupcakes and having a polling station for passers-by to vote on whether the let the tax end. (Children will be working the ballot boxes!) Let's add our unique uptown craftiness to the mix!!
We uptown parents are meeting on the southbound platform of the A train at the 181st street station at 2:30 to travel down together. Please bring your children, your cupcakes and your homemade signs; we will bring the District 6 banner!
See all the information below and attached (Spanish translation is on the way!!); please feel free to forward the press release to any press contacts that you might have! See here for the coverage thus far: http://insideschools.org/blog/item/1000147-parents-say- make-millionaires-pay
So are you with us??
Thanks!!
Best,
Tory (D6 parent)
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It’s hard to imagine that things could get worse in New York City public schools. Whether you are an educator or a parent, over the past several years you have been watching as art classes have gone missing from your 4th grader’s day, as the aide whom your kindergartener adored was laid off, as the extra 2 students per class has stretched your hours of grading ever later on a Sunday night.
But if we don’t push our politicians to listen, things are about to get a lot worse.
Estimated revenue lost (next fiscal year) from sunset of millionaires tax: $2.8 billion
Estimated budget gap for next fiscal year in New York State: $2.4 billion.
Budget cuts slated for New York City Schools: $1.4 billion.
And still Governor Andrew Cuomo won’t support the extension of the millionaire’s tax.
IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO CHANGE HIS MIND.
As parents and educators, you may not have time to camp out in Zuccotti Park – but this is something you CAN do.
On Election Day, join parents, students and teachers from around the city to tell Governor Cuomo that millionaires should not get another tax break because it is our children who will pay.
Join us in bringing the occupation to the Governor’s door
Tuesday, November 8th @ 3:30pm
In front of Governor Cuomo’s Manhattan office
633 3rd Ave. between 40th and 41st St.
If you’re already coming, who can you bring with you?
If you can’t join us, who can you get to stand there in your place?
Pass it on.
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