No one wants this! It isn’t an issue and it doesn’t make our kids safer to restrict rights. Nor would we expect it to be evenly enforced by the NYPD.

Glad to see this gone. It should not return.

PLACE NYC and its surrogates are desperately trying to make this Google AI school happen, wonder what the deal is with that!

"If you train a Black person well enough, they'll know to use the back," an adult said while an UWS child was speaking. www.westsiderag.com/2026/02/20/r...

CEC3 in the news with a parent (& Hunter professor) making obscenely racist comments on a hot mic while a student was speaking. Feels like this should be a bigger story. Absolutely awful that students were exposed to this as part of a CEC meeting. More needs to be done to call out and remove hate.

Yiatin Chu - a prominent member of PLACE - posted this and affirmed when questioned that she didn’t see anything wrong it. This is what PLACE supports. Let’s get this awfulness out of our schools and city.

As we close out 2025 we look forward to continuing to work towards better schools in 2026! And if you haven’t yet - get your flu and COVID shots! The vast majority of kids who end up in the hospital with the flu are not vaccinated.

Optimistic that this will prove to be a good choice for all.

Interested in an anti-ice training? Getting to know what your school community can do to keep kids safe? Chelsea Neighbors United has an upcoming workshop on December 15th at 6:30 at 336 w 20th street.

Let’s get ready to vote Mamdani in. The CEC election process needs reform before anything gets handed over but we believe Mamdani can get the right team on board to figure it out. And we know that he will stand up for ALL our kids.

We are glad to see the DOE standing up for all our kids. And hope this push back continues for our trans kids, for our immigrant kids, for our Black and brown kids, for our IEP kids. For ALL our kids.

A great idea. Giving schools control of the streets in front of their buildings for extra space is a no brainer. And also a lot safer for our kids.

A lot of loud people are talking about Mamdani’s statement re ending G&T. The sky is not falling. Smaller class sizes are rolling out! All our students will get more individualized attention which is huge! Also: segregation is not good. It is unclear how Mamdani could support its perpetuation.

The Education Council Consortium, NEW Pride Agenda, PFLAG-NYC and Transformative Schools put together a letter in response to the Trump administration’s attacks on the DOE. We aren’t abandoning any of our kids to bullies - refusing to stand up for some harms them all. Sign-on and share!

We hope Chancellor Aviles-Ramos continues to stand by the policies that protect NYC kids even as Adams makes ridiculous statements. The time to stand up for all our kids is now - particularly as huge cuts to ELL programming are threatened as well.

“On at least two occasions during executive board meetings of the school's parent group, [Mark Levine’s hand-picked board member Sam Lo] described students on individualized education plans as ‘retards.’” Wishing I could have my primary vote for comptroller back….

A great article that captures the many concerns with the two boro president appointees / future direction of the board (and disappointment in Mark Levine) - even as parents are thrilled with the overturn of the anti-trans resolution.

We are just a group of tired parents who want to see positive change for ALL kids in this city, and we are early in our efforts, but we whole heartedly endorse Mamdani for Mayor. We hope everyone who can vote gets out there in November to send a clear message that we want to go forward.

We look forward to keeping a close eye on CEC D2 but also expanding to help push other CECs to do right by all kids - supporting high quality education and schools where every student is safe and accepted.

The anti-trans resolution that caused all the attention on D2 CEC in the first place has been repealed. Whether Mark Levine’s appointees will vote for anything else progressive or will side with PLACE for inequality (as Sam Lo’s social media posts imply) and defunding remains to be seen.

We will be live posting the D2 CEC meeting that starts at 6:30 tonight. 100 Hester Street (MS 131) Also you can watch online (zoom) or via the CEC2 YouTube channel.

Mark Levine’s office says that they have asked Sam Lo - one of their appointees - to resign after seeing some of his public statements on social media. These appointments matter to parents - why didn’t they any due diligence before? What if Sam Lo refuses to resign?

New Mexico just made history, becoming the first state to guarantee universal, no-cost child care for EVERY family. THIS is the kind of leadership New York’s working families and educators need + NOW is the time for @governor.ny.gov and our State Legislature to deliver truly universal child care ✊🏾✊🏽

We aren’t going to let this go. We don’t want Maud 2.0 on the D2 CEC. Withdraw the appointments @marklevinenyc.bsky.social Send an email: mailxto.com/cec2levine

With everything that is going on in y the world @marklevinenyc.bsky.social is siding with regressive, segregation supporting, republicans in his appointments to the D2 CEC. Unacceptable. Join us in telling his office that we won’t stand for this.

This is a rich statement coming from someone who we believe is about to appoint MAGA-lite individuals to the D2 CEC as a political favor. Revolting from someone who pretended to care.

First day of school tomorrow! Don’t forget to find the snack bag that’s at the bottom of a drawer or lost at summer camp.

CEC 2 - meeting no quorum due to excused absences. Also neither of the two appointed members are on board yet.

Next D2 CEC meeting should be interesting! Come join us tomorrow (8/13) - 6:30pm at PS 343 - 1 Peck Slip

Interesting timing! Craig Slutzkin (the disappearing and reappearing PLACE officer also on CEC2…) abstained from voting on a resolution to support trans students. So guess it’s also back to Maud politics for him?

CEC 2: July Meeting Update - off to a great start: CEC 2 Member Allyson Bowen killed the vote on a resolution to affirm that all immigrant students in are welcome and safe in our schools *and* that ICE is not welcome. Always a great look to be supporting ICE and not kids Allyson!

We support local news @hellgatenyc.com and @thecity.nyc (and hope they cover more education issues!) and not the ‘local’ papers happily regurgitating white supremacy talking points.

Tell city council to keep funding for trans kids facing homelessness and needing gender affirming care. Now is not the time to be scared of serving some of our most vulnerable kids. Easy link to send a letter to city council:

Everyone should get out to vote in the primary! Let’s vote for candidates who don’t think it’s ok to speed through school zones. vote.nyc/page/find-yo...

D2 CEC meeting tonight. No Maud for her last meeting. Bye! No Allyson, enjoying her last free skip likely. TBH, probably for the best.

Full CEC results are here (despite the non updated details in the card)

CEC results are out!! District 2 has fewer place members and no majority at the moment!

Gonna do a sorta live thread of this mess. 🧵

Tune in for the District 2 CEC meeting - see who doesn’t show up and who leaves mid meeting! Will there be enough members left for a vote!?

Next District 2 CEC meeting is Wednesday May 21 at 6pm: PS 276 Battery Park City School - 55 Battery Place. Come show the current majority we aren’t giving up until they are gone.

Approximately 24 minutes to vote in the CEC elections and then we go back to talking about other CEC and NYC education things for 1.8 years!

NYC Parents: CEC voting ends TONIGHT at 11:59pm! Set a reminder if you keep forgetting. Single votes win these elections! Let’s replace hate with parents who care. Full recommendations on our website!

NYC parents - two more days to vote! PLACE is desperately trying to distance themselves from Moms for Liberty but unfortunately there’s a clear public record. They attend M4L events and refused to support a resolution disavowing M4L. Let’s vote the creeps out. We’ve got great parents who care!

We’ve got 4 more days - let’s get the votes to get some parents that actually care. No more PLACE Moms for Liberty.

We were asked what we think about PLACE not endorsing Maud (their cofounder) - here’s our response: PLACE is trying to hide their associations because they are worried, but the record is very clear. (1/..)

The world might be a wet dumpster fire today but CEC voting is still open for NYC public school parents!! Link in bio for full recs and how to vote!

Vote vote vote! CEC elections are still going. Email your parent coordinator if you don’t already have a NYCSA. Link in bio for voting recommendations.

NYC parents: 10 more days to vote! We’ve got great slates of candidates for NYC D2, other districts and the citywide councils! We’ve got candidates that will come to meetings and listen! Candidates that care about racial equity and academic rigor and letting trans kids be kids. We can do it all!

Thrilled to see this. Hoping NYC parents in D2 are also able to rid themselves of moms for liberty MAGA friendly council majority. Enough is enough. We can have both equity and excellence.

NYC public school parents - you get 3 votes per student - use them all! We’ve got recommendations for candidates that care about equity AND excellence. We can have both.