Date & time: 
Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 3:30PM to 5:00PM (EDT)

Location: 
Online Webinar

The webinar will address the following pressing issues:
• How are disadvantaged families with children dealing with everyday challenges during the pandemic?
• What governmental and community action can help ensure proper schooling, nutrition and care for children and adolescents?
• Are educational systems prepared - or not - for the challenges of remote learning for students at every age?
• What kind of summer opportunities will be needed under the actual situation to allow children in deprived neighborhoods to disconnect, rest and be ready for the next school year?
• From what we have learned these past months, what needs to be in place to allow all children to thrive at school next year?

Speakers:
- ATD Fourth World group of activists with direct experience of poverty
     • Maryann Broxton
     • Tina Lindsey
     • Rosetta Savanna
     • Kimberly Tyre
     • Stacy White
- Community School Director, Partnership With Children, P.S. 284 the Gregory Jackson School, Alexandra Teitel
- Director of Education Policy at The Center for NYC Affairs at The New School and Editor-in-Chief of InsideSchools, Tom Liam Lynch

 - Acting Deputy Chancellor for Community Empowerment, Partnerships, and Communications, New York City Department of Education, Adrienne Austin

Moderator: Executive Director, Equity for Children Alberto Minujin

Presented by Equity for Children and the Center for New York City Affairs at the Schools of Public Engagement, and ATD Fourth World.

Forty percent of New York City kindergartners take advantage of school choice to enroll in schools other than their zoned neighborhood school. What does this mean for the children who choose, and what does it mean for the schools they leave behind?

Senior research fellow Nicole Mader of the New School's Center for New York City Affairs will present her research findings, based on student-level zone assignment data for 700,000 pupils over 10 years.

School choice has allowed thousands of children to leave low-performing schools for higher performing schools, often outside their neighborhoods. But it has also resulted in higher concentrations of poverty and shrinking enrollments and budgets in the schools they leave behind, making it ever hard for those schools to serve their neighborhoods well.

The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion including:

• NYS Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa
• New School Professor Maya Wiley, co-chair of the city's school diversity working group
• Dennis Morgan, PTA president of PS 180 in Harlem and a member of the Community Education Council for District 3.
• Allison Roda, author of Inequity in Gifted and Talented Programs: Parental Choices about Status, School Opportunity, and Second-Generation Segregation.
• Ujju Aggarwal, New School professor and author of the forthcoming book The Color of Choice: Raced Rights and the Structure of Citizenship

Clara Hemphill, director of education policy and editor of InsideSchools, will moderate.

Applying to pre-kindergarten or kindergarten in NYC? Considering both public and private schools? Join the experts who have visited hundreds of schools at this free event to demystify the application process. Gina Malin, executive director of the Parents League of New York, will talk about private schools. Clara Hemphill, InsideSchools founder, will talk about public schools.

The event is free. A $25 ticket includes a copy of Hemphill's book, New York City's Best Public Pre-K and Elementary Schools.