The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx

Book details how CC9 built alliance to improve schools

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Please re-enter recipient e-mail address es. Translators enabled all to participate on an equal footing. Before every public event or meeting with New York City Department of Education officials or the press, CC9 conducted intensive formal preparation sessions where participants rehearsed arguments and built confidence for thinking on their feet. All this helped CC9 build a structure capable of increasing parental turnout at public events from less than two dozen to more than , and for collecting 10, petition signatures in short order and delivering them when promised.

Fabricant describes a dramatic situation where New York City Department of Education Chancellor Joel Klein tested the strength of the community-teacher alliance by inviting CC9, but not the union, to a crucial meeting CC9 had been attempting to set up for months. Losing this meeting would have delayed and possibly killed the program. In the end, the UFT agreed that CC9 should attend alone, but that for any subsequent meetings on this issue CC9 and the union would go together.

Fabricant, a professor at the City University of New York and an elected union officer, has produced a street manual for policy wonks, a policy guide for organizers and a down-to-earth read for everyone in between.

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