“We signed up because we wanted to see what this was about, because honestly, we were ticked off to see that it was sponsored by the UFT and also because the person who was leading that boot camp w…
is putting its thumb on the scale to get its own candidates onto local parent advisory boards – holding boot camps and workshops as part of a recruitment push, The Post has learned.
Kross and Stowe found the boot camp to be informative, covering the application process and education law that governs them, but questioned the UFT involvement. “And yes, if you have good teachers, you should support them. But parent interests and UFT interests will not always be aligned. And I personally believe that the UFT has a lot of influence. And as a parent organization, as a CEC, we have to try to represent parents first.”CECs are tasked with advising and commenting on educational policies and providing input to New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks and the Panel for Educational Policy. For grades pre-K through 8.
Each CEC has 10 elected members, two borough president appointees and a non-voting student member, which will include a newly instated District 75 representative on each council. “I came here thinking I could make a difference and I realized I can’t,” said Robin Kelleher, a mother and member of CEC 2 in Manhattan, who said she won’t run again for the two-year term.“I have three children and the hours that I spent away from them would have been better spent helping them with their homework or taking them to activities. It’s just so frustrating working with a system that is so, so clearly caught up in serving its own private interests.
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