New York City is failing its children. This year, Mayor Bloomberg has cut $180 million from the school budget in the middle of the school year, and has proposed cuts of over $324 million for next year. These budget cuts will force many City schools to cut much needed after-school programs, arts education and teacher training programs. Next year the cuts will be even worse and will likely cause schools to cut teaching positions and other vital line items.

At the same time he’s slashing the education budget, Mayor Bloomberg is proposing hundreds of millions of dollars in property tax reductions and give-backs for homeowners.

Make the Road New York, in collaboration with the Coalition for Education Justice, the New York Immigration Coalition, labor and community allies, has helped mobilize thousands of parents, teachers, students, and education advocates to demand a restoration of all funding to our schools and demand that Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein keep their promise to the children of New York.

Join the fight and tell your elected officials you want a better future for New York City’s children!

In a vindication of what Make the Road New York and community allies have been asserting for months, charges have been dropped for all but ten of the thirty-two young people who were arrested last May on the way to a friend’s wake.