Parent Action/Education Advocacy Committee (ICE PAC)

THE FUTURE OF MAYORAL CONTROL 
This week the NY State Assembly Education Committee held the first hearing of a promised series of events about the future of mayoral control of our city's schools. Most of the people who testified at the hearing, including ICE PAC's Kemala Karmen, expressed frustration with the current system of school governance, speaking about how mayoral control led to a lack of transparency (financial and otherwise) and suppressed student and parent voice and participation. You can read the compelling testimony presented by noted education advocate Leonie Haimson on her blog. If you'd like to read Kemala's testimony, please email her at kemala AT yahoo.com The Assembly Committee will accept additional emailed comments until December 26, so if you have feelings about mayoral control, please send them to whylandf@nyassembly.gov 

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ON EDUCATION ISSUES
Last weekend MSNBC broadcast a forum where several of the leading Dem candidates answered questions about their education policy positions. Highlights from the forum and commentary can be viewed or heard here. For a written recap of the event, go here.