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06.25.08, 06:50 AM General Topics
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To All Current and Future Public School Families For those of you with children under four, this will impact you very soon. For those of you who have older children, we need your support. Please sign this petition to put elementary admissions back in the hands of schools http://www.gopetition.com/online/20080.html When the DOE recently made elementary admissions a centralized process: Many families wrongfully received rejections from their older children's schools. Many other families never applied because the new system was not publicized well enough or required application in English. (Supplementary materials was provided in other languages, but not the application). Any type of zoning confusion or other discrepancy resulted in a rejection. Centralizing admissions costs money that would be better spent directly on creating stronger schools for our kids. It alienates families by furthering the impression of an impersonal bureaucracy. Without some admission of error, we have no reason to believe that the same mistakes won't be made again next year. Send the DOE a message. Sign the petition. http://www.gopetition.com/online/20080.html Pass this letter on to other listservs (sign your own name), print the petition out and get signatures. We hope to have a critical mass by Friday, June 27th to send to Joel Klein and the Office of School Enrollment. Yours in solidarity, Liz Rosenberg Thanks to the Pre-K list-serve and Kemala Karmen for feedback while drafting this! [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 06.25.08, 06:50 AM Flag
 

Dear UrbanBaby community,

Thank you so much for being a valued member of the UrbanBaby community. We wanted to inform you that we are shutting down the site on July 6th. We are grateful for your participation and support that has helped make UrbanBaby such an important resource to parents for many years.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can email us at urbanbaby-support@cbsinteractive.com.

Thanks so much,

UrbanBaby Support

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