Resources and Links:

• Video: Denisha Jones’ question about standardized testing and Joe Biden’s response at the AFT forum in January 2020.
• Education Next - What a Democratic Sweep This Fall Would Mean for Education
• Education Next - Biden’s Regulatory Agenda on Education

Notes and Resources:

• Sign-up form for NYC parents for their children to attend school for in-person learning (deadline Nov. 15)
• More information on the reaction to DOE’s reversal, now allowing opt-in only once this year
• Insights in Education report, “COVID-19 and Schools: What We Can Learn from Six Months of Closures and Reopening”
• Insights in Education country tracker
• The UNESCO Map showing COVID-19 Impact on Education

Links and Resources:

• Noliwe Rooks, Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
• William Doyle,  Let the Children Play: For the Learning, Well-being and Life Success of Every Child, co-authored by Pasi Sahlberg
• Segment about Finnish schools in Michael Moore’s documentary, “Where to Invade Next”

Resources:

• Young Advocates for Fair Education [Yaffed]
• Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education by Noliwe Rooks

Links and Resources

• K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center and its district self-assessment tool
• NY State Senator Brad Hoylman website
• Revenue bills introduced in the Legislature sponsored by Sen. Hoylman include: a pied-a-terre tax on non-primary residences valued at $5m or more, a repeal of tax breaks for yachts and private jets, authorizing New York City to be able to impose a tax on vacant commercial storefronts, and close the carried interest loophole. Sen. Hoylman is also a co-sponsor of a bill by Senator Robert Jackson to enact an ultra-millionaires tax and direct the proceeds to school funding through Foundation Aid.  His bill to strengthen charter school accountability is here.

Resources:

• InsideSchools website
• InsideSchools plus
• InsideSchools free course for parents: "How to Support Online Learning at Home"

Alliance for Quality Education report: Set Up to Fail: How Cuomo’s School Cuts Target New York’s Black & Brown Students 
For more information on AQE’s planned 9/12/20 actions on school funding, contact  [email protected]  

News on Albany school cuts  and Schenectady layoffs 

Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood’s statement urging schools to minimize screen time and ed tech 
Also: CCFC petition on this issue and an article on the subject

The Parent Toolkit for Student Privacy, created by CCFC and the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy 

Jamaal Bowman’s education platform and his ideas for opening schools in a time of COVID-19. 

Advocates for Children website 

AFC Guides and resources

AFC NY Helpline: Call (866) 427-6033 on Monday to Thursday, 10 am to 4 pm 

Op Ed on how homeless students need special attention in NYC’s school reopening plan 

American Counseling Association (ACA)

American School Counselor Association (ASCA)

College Access Consortium of New York (CACNY)

DegreesNYC

Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice

Options Center College Counseling at Goddard Riverside

Interrupting Racism: Equity and Social Justice in School Counseling (2019, Atkins & Oglesby)

National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC)

National College Attainment Network (NCAN)

New York State School Counselor Association (NYSSCA)

https://annietan.com/home/about/#media

https://blacklivesmatteratschool.com

https://cunystruggle.org/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BronxEducatorsUnited4Justice/

http://www.free-cuny.org/

https://hope4college.com/

https://jamilahammami.com/about/

https://morecaucusnyc.org/

https://www.rankandfileaction.com/

https://ima-mfa.hunter.cuny.edu/?ima-faculty=reiko-tahara