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What People Are Saying?

What can City leaders do to improve education?

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Recently, Education Voters asked New Yorkers the following question:

What is one thing that our City elected leaders can do to improve education?

Take Education Voters Snap Poll

Education has been a major theme of both major candidates in New York City’s mayoral race. Which of the following lessons do you think other politicians should learn for 2010?

	Education is the best long-term solution to our economic problems. When the economy gets tough, we worry about whether our kids are ready for the future.
	Accountability doesn’t mean teacher layoffs or cutting a school’s budget when its students are struggling. Accountability means taking a hard look at the people who are responsible for the failing policies.
	Every child, regardless of race or family income deserves an excellent education – the public believes that and people expect their elected officials to act accordingly.
	All of the above.

We Should Talk

by Glynda C. Carr - Executive Director of Education Voters

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Hello and welcome to Imagine: NY Schools! As the Executive Director of Education Voters Institute of New York I’m thrilled to be able to launch this project and get people talking about what our public schools need.

An acre of words have been written on the subject of what’s wrong with our schools. I want us to talk about how to make them better.

There’s no question we are moving towards a “knowledge economy” in this century, and a good education is going to be an essential tool for success. How can we make New York City schools the kind of launch pad our kids will need to participate in that economy?