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Parents for School Choice |
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Perhaps the time has
finally come for help to be available to parents who wish to send their children
to yeshivahs or other non-public schools? Recently, 300 interested parents,
school administrators and school choice advocates gathered to discuss the
‘hot’ legislation pending in New York and New Jersey that would give
taxpayers a partial tax credit for contributions to scholarship funds. While the
bills fall short of giving parents an outright tax credit for tuition,
it’s a start. By building up these funds, money will be available for
students to attend non-public schools such as yeshivahs. |
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Invitation to: |
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School Choice Advocates
| | Increase the power of your vote by
becoming a | | "SCHOOL
CHOICE VOTER" | Leave your name, city
and state at
SchoolChoiceNY.org
| In July 2007, concerned parents gathered at PS215 on Ave S in Brooklyn,
sponsored by the Sephardic Voter's League. David (Hurdle) Tawil was the
emcee, accompanied by Maurice Hedaya and Ben-Gurion Matsas. The guest
speakers Tim Mulhearn of United New Yorkers for Choice in Education (UNYCE),
Rabbi Israel Teitelbaum of School Choice NJ and Robert Schindler, long- time
school choice advocate and brother of former Mayor Brett Schindler of Jersey
City, NJ, all spoke about the importance of moving this issue forward by
activating a grass roots movement to put pressure on politicians to pass pending
legislation. |
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Make your Vote count |
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America is the land of
opportunity. But not for many millions of "minorities" living in the
ghettos of our once-great cities. Many of their schools are disaster areas that
are intimidating to both children and teachers alike. When parents come to the
schools and say, "Give us just half of what you are now spending, and let
us save our children by placing them into better schools," parents are told
that this is not an option. Take it or leave it. Insanity!
What is even more insane is that anyone who tries to
fix all of the above is told by the political mavens that this needs to continue
to play out over the next several decades. It's simply not possible to
re-build Rome in a day. This is, of course, a self fulfilling prophesy. | | | |
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