by Communications Team | Feb 12, 2013 | Education
President Obama called for a major expansion of access to Pre-K in his State of the State address tonight. Here is the responses of Karen Scharff and Billy Easton. Citizen Action of New York & the Alliance for Quality Education Respond to President Obama’s State...
by Communications Team | Jan 2, 2013 | Education
Ready for Kindergarten, Ready for College Campaign Praises New York Education Commission’s Recommendation to Create Full-Day Pre-Kindergarten Program A coalition of early childhood, education and community organizations, the Ready for Kindergarten, Ready for College...
by Communications Team | Oct 2, 2012 | Education
By Brian Trzeciak, Education Organzer with Citizen Action and AQENY On Wednesday, Sept. 26th, Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education organized a rally with parents, students, activists, and community members on the steps of the Buffalo City Hall to call...
by Communications Team | Apr 5, 2012 | Education
Nearly two years ago, Jawaan Daniels was shot and killed waiting for the bus to go home after he was suspended from his Buffalo school for walking the hallways. Since the summer of 2011, Citizen Action of New York and the Alliance for Quality Education along with...
by Communications Team | Mar 15, 2012 | Education, Uncategorized
Yesterday, more than 1800 students, parents, educators, community advocates, elected officials and activists gathered in Albany to draw attention to the dire circumstances surrounding New York State’s educational system. Over the past two years, schools have...
by Communications Team | Mar 1, 2012 | Education
Our Capital District Organizer, Mark Emanatian, gives us a recap of yesterday’s forum: On February 29th, almost eight hundred students, parents and educators from rural and small city schools from across New York State came to the Capital to demand that their...
by Communications Team | Feb 28, 2012 | Education, Uncategorized
Today, we rallied over 100 students (Pre-K to college), parents, teachers, and advocates from all over New York State to Albany to call on our legislators to invest in quality early education. Early childhood education (we used the hashtag #ECEd) has been repeatedly...
by Communications Team | Feb 7, 2012 | Education, Uncategorized
Today, representatives from the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York, Winning Beginning New York, the Westchester PTA, Cohoes School district, among other organizations and concerned citizens, met in the LOB at the State Capitol to release a new...
