If the Lorax can speak for the trees, certainly our union can speak for NYC public-school students. The systematic chopping down of our public schools, which provide equity for all children, has to end.
And as United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew states: “New York’s charter-school experiment has led to some promising innovations, but as a group New York City charter-schools have become a separate and unequal branch of public education, working with a far-smaller proportion of our neediest students than the average public school.”
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