September Meetings & News

We hope you had a great first week of school! CEC1 is busy organizing events for the fall: see below.

Our mission is to help District One families and educators participate in decision-making at the level of family, school, and community. If you want to volunteer for any of our committees, work for the fall is just getting underway, so email cec1@schools.nyc.gov to join or learn more!

And check out this recent news:

• NYC Public School Parents on the DOE’s testing of lead in school water, “Is DOE using the right protocols to test for lead?”
  “NY Times reports that NYC will change their method of lead testing in school water but unclear if this methodology would match best practices.”
  

• DNAinfo article on limited access letters: ‘Limited Access Letters’ Used to Unfairly to Ban Parents From Schools: Critics
  “Many fear these letters are sometimes doled out to push families out of a school and that they are overwhelmingly given to low-income parents of color.”

CEC1 Meetings
Class Size Committee
Date: Tues., Sept. 6, 2016
Time: 5:15 pm
Location: PS 20, Anna Silver School, 166 Essex St.

Testing Committee
Date: Tues., Sept. 13, 2016
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: PS 20, Anna Silver School, 166 Essex St.

September Business Meeting 
Date: Wed., Sept. 14, 2016
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: PS 20, Anna Silver School, 166 Essex St.
Agenda

CEC Welcome Back Event, Sept. 28th
Meet members of the CEC, PA/PTAs, Title 1 PACs, SLTs*, and more!
Date: Wed. Sept. 28, 2016
Time: 6:00pm
Location: PS 20, Anna Silver School, 166 Essex St.
(Flyers in Bengali, Chinese, and Spanish)
*Community Education Council, Parent/Teacher Associations, Title 1 Parent Advisory Councils, and School Leadership Teams

Other Meetings

Special Education: Pre-K and Kindergarten Meeting
Join the Citywide Council on Special Education and
Special Guests, and speak one-on-one to an expert on Pre-K and Kindergarten Special Education. See attachment for the dates of other CCSE meetings.
Date: Sept. 29, 2016
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: The Hunters Point Campus: 1-50 51 Avenue, LIC, NY 11101

• Light refreshments will be served. RSVP to 718- 391-8354

Citywide Council on High Schools Calendar & Business Meeting
Date: Wed., Sept. 14, 2016
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:45 pm
Location: 52 Chambers St., NY, NY 10007
(Translated flyer)

High School Fairs: Citywide and Borough

• Citywide High School Fair: Sat. Sept. 24th & Sun. Sept. 25th: 10 am-3 pm, Brooklyn Tech High School (29 Fort Greene Place, 11217)
  See the DOE High School Events site for workshop times

• Manhattan Borough High School Fair: Sat. Oct. 15th  & Sun. Oct. 16th: MLK, Jr. Educational Campus (122 Amsterdam Ave., 10023)