We Rise for Education
Funding our schools and building upon our communities.
We need to fully fund our education system by ensuring that the State allocates the $3.2 million owed in Foundation Aid to our schools. Without a monetary investment in our public schools, our students are at risk of being left behind. As we begin to think past the Pandemic, we must prioritize our schools as an integral part of our children’s development.
Sustainable community schools will center our students and increase parent engagement while encouraging a positive school climate and culturally responsive education. Similarly, we must increase teacher diversity and the number of mental health counselors, while paying dignified wages, to ensure our schools have the supportive faculty our students need.
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Expand Universal Pre-K across the state of New York, beginning with Westchester County.
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Ensuring the State fulfills its Foundation Aid Commitments.
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Continue investing heavily in schools as community hubs, not just academic centers, including reimagining what constitutes “discipline” and “school safety.”
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• Ensure parent, faculty, and community input in decision and policy-making of local education.
• Commit to an audit of the Mayoral Control process and its impact and results over the last 10 years.
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• Increase the ratio of full-time faculty-to-students ratio and professionalize adjunct compensation.
• Reset the ratios of mental health counselors and academic advisors to students, in line with national standards.
• Make CUNY and SUNY free: eliminate undergraduate tuition and fees for in-state undergraduate students and replace tuition income with public funds.
• Dedicate funds for Capital Investments to restore campus facilities.
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Support the Fair College Admissions Act ending legacy preference and binding admissions.