Boycott The "On Education" Forum Hosted By City Hall and Gotham Schools

We do not have to go to the "On Education" Breakfast hosted by City Hall Magazine and Gotham Schools. In fact, we need to boycott the breakfast. Do you really want to pay to hear a group of people talk among themselves about how wonderful the state of public school education is, and how much Mayor Michael Bloomberg has done to help our children?

If you really want to know what they are saying wait for the review on the Gotham Schools' blog.

Here is the email that I sent to J Freeman and Anthony Hawkins:

To:
jfreeman@manhattanmedia.com,

ahawkins@cityhallnews.com,
betsy.combier@gmail.com
date Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:59 PM
subject Education Forum

I received an email to attend the Education Forum at Con Edison on August 25, 2011, and as a member of the press who writes about issues surrounding the disasters known as the New York City Department of Education, the Rubber Rooms, and the United Federation of Teachers (for whom I worked as staff for 3 years and I am writing a book on) I would have considered attending in order to write a scathing article about how no one on the Panel knows what they are talking about or would admit to same, I dont think I will take my valuable time to listen to the same rubbish that I have heard regurgitated over and over again since 2002.

Your arrogance that you would believe you can continue to stuff the false facts that the people on your panel cite down any informed parent, teacher, or informed citizen's throat now, after all the blogs and websites out there are touting the real facts, is astonishing.

Betsy Combier
Editor, Parentadvocates.org
Editor, NYC Rubber Room Reporter
Editor, New York Court Corruption
Editor, NYC Public Voice

It has been a tumultuous summer in the education world, full of budget fights and labor showdowns. Heading into the new school year we are sitting down with a panel of leaders and influencers in the education field to better understand how the past year’s fights will play out in the school year ahead and how these events will impact education policy, city politics, teachers and parents for years to come.


MODERATED BY:

Andrew Hawkins
Managing Editor at City Hall News

Philissa Cramer
Managing Editor of GothamSchools.Org

THURSDAY
AUGUST 25, 2011
8:00 a.m.
Networking Breakfast

8:30 -10:00 a.m.
Panel Discussion Followed by Q&A

Location:
Con Edison Building
4 Irving Place (@14th Street)
New York, New York

TICKETS:
EARLY REGISTRATION:
$30 for individual tickets/
$250 table of 10

AFTER 8/24:
$40 for individual tickets /
$350 for a table of 10

PURCHASE TICKETS BELOW
*$20 ticket for government and non-profit employees

FOR MORE INFORMATION or sponsorship opportunities
call 646.442.1662 or email us here.

PANELISTS:

LEO CASEY
Vice President of Academic High Schools, UFT

SYDNEY MORRIS
Co-Founder of Educators 4 Excellence

EVA MOSKOWITZ
Former City Council Member & Founder/Chief Executive Officer of Success Charter Network

SHAEL POLAKOW-SURANSKY
Department of Education Deputy Chancellor & Chief Academic Officer

BILL THOMPSON
Former President of the NYC Board of Education & Former NYC Comptroller

MERRYL TISCH
Chancellor of the NY Board of Regents

JOSEPH P. VITERITTI
Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy at Hunter College