April
2003
- NYCoRE appears
on WABC to promote NYCoRE the day before NYCoRE’s anti-military
bake sale.
- “Bake
Sale” action in front of the offices of NY Senators Clinton
and Schumer to protest the obscene US military budget and the lack
of funding for quality education. Baked goods with anti-military
quotes/research are sold at the action.
May
2003
- NYCoRE appears
on “Education at the Crossroads” on NY’s WBAI
(99.5 fm).
June
2003
- NYCoRE facilitates
workshops on “Military Myths” at AFSC’s anti-war
conference in Philadelphia, PA.
July
2003
- 1st NYCoRE
Strategy Retreat NYCoRE’s mission statement was finalized
and its Points of Unity were started at this retreat.
August
2003
- NYCoRE’s
Points of Unity are finalized.
September
2003
- NYCoRE meeting
decide on whether NYCoRE should focus on challenging high-stakes
testing or an anti-military campaign.
October
2003
- Sixth lesson
is added to NYCoRE’s “Military Myths” curriculum.
- October 25th:
NYCoRE members march in Washington, DC with members of SLAM.
December
2003
- NYCoRE meeting.
An anti-high stakes testing plan is finalized at this meeting.
February
2004
- February 2nd:
NYCoRE holds an open meeting with a focus on the impending 3rd grade
high-stakes testing policy at Hunter College in Manhattan.
- February 9th:
NYCoRE attends the first Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) meeting
where an anti-testing voice is heard. NYCoRE gets exposure on TV
news, as well as in the New York Times, Daily News and Newsday newspaper.
March
2004
- NYCoRE action
strategy meeting at East Side Community High School in the Lower
East Side of Manhattan.
- March 15th:
NYCoRE performs a mock lesson plan to protest the plan to make the
3rd grade exams high-stakes. The policy passes at the meeting after
Mayor Bloomberg “replaces” three PEP members that were
set to vote against the policy.
- NYCoRE appears
on the radio to speak out against the 3rd grade testing policy.
- March 20th:
NYCoRE marches in NYC against the US occupation of Iraq.
April
2004
- NYCoRE members
attend a PEP meeting and present facts about the detrimental effects
of high-stakes testing. Mayoral candidate Charles Barron is in attendance.
- Educational
Notes publish NYCoRE’s “Position Statement on High-Stakes
Testing.”
- April 29th:NYCoRE
appears on WBAI to promote NYCoRE.
May
2004
- NYCoRE holds
an Organizational Retreat
June
2004
- IESP meeting.
- NYCoRE and
Paper Tiger collaborate to organize 2 screenings of “Class
Dismissed,” a short film focusing on the textbook industry
and its correlation to how students are taught history. The film
is developed by Paper Tiger Films and narrated by historian/activist
Howard Zinn.
- First run-through
of NYCoRE anti-testing workshop at NYU.
July
2004
- July 4th and
5th: 2nd NYCoRE Strategy Retreat.
August
2004
- Paper Tiger
and NYCoRE members collaborate to develop lesson plans for a curriculum
guide that will accompany the “Class Dismissed” video.
- August 29th:
NYCoRE members march in NYC against the Republican National Convention.
September
2004
- September
2nd: NYCoRE members attend an anti-Bush rally in Manhattan as he
is nominated by the Republican Party to run for president in November’s
election.
October
2004
- October 1st:
NYCoRE Open Informational Meeting at Teachers and Writers in Manhattan.
“Playing Field” activity from NYCoRE’s anti-testing
workshop is done here.
- October 29th:
NYCoRE members facilitate the full anti-testing workshop at the
New York Social Forum. The workshop is held at the Community Church
of New York in Manhattan.
November 2004
- November 19th
and 20th: NYCoRE co-sponsors H2Ed’s 2nd Annual Hip Hop Education
Summit at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
January
2005
- NYCoRE launches
the Study Group project to support work around teaching for social
justice.
April
2005
- NYCoRE includes
a position "plank" in ICOPE's (Independent Commission
on Public Education) Mayoral Election platform.
May
2005
- NYCoRE and
supporters holds a silent protest against highstakes testing at
the steps of Tweed Courthouse during a Panel on Educational Policy
meeting.
- NYCoRE hosts
its first Study Group Finale. Each Study Group (Discipline, English
Language Learners in Schools, and Adapting Mainstream Curriculum
to Social Justice) presents a review of its work.
- The Discipline
Study Group extends into the Campaign Against the Criminalization
of Youth (CACY).
- NYCoRE participates
in the CUNY Graduate Center Urban Education Program's Urban Dialogue
Series
June
2005
- NYCoRE's Coalition
Against The Criminalization of Youth
(CACY) and the Prison Moratorium Project hold a forum discussing
the issue of safe high schools.
July
2005
- NYCoRE holds
its annual summer retreat and decides to move into a Project-based
model where core members will become point people for three organizing
projects (Military Myths: Counter Recruitment; Coalition Against
the Criminalization of Youth; and Justice not Just Tests) and a
support project for educators (Inquiry to Action Groups)
August
2005
- NYCoRE sponsors
the participation of two youth in the Summer Youth Institute being
facilitated by the Institute for Education and Social Policy (IESP)
at NYU.
- NYCoRE demonstrates
against the decision to use the English Language Arts (ELA) and
Math exams as the basis of promotion for seventh graders at the
Panel on Educational Policy Meeting.
September
2005
October
2005
- NYCoRE Inquiry
to Action Groups (ItAGs) are launched for the 05-06 academic year.
- NYCoRE presents
at the 3rd Annual Center for Antioppressive Education Conference
in Honolulu, Hawaii.
December
2005
- NYCoRE's Anti-Military
Recruitment organizing projects helps organize a panel discussing
military recruitment in schools at Vanguard High School.
January
2006
- NYCoRE sponsors
Letters from Young Activists at Teachers College, Columbia University
February
2006
- NYCoRE participates
at the Caribbean Cultural Center's Caribbean Cultural Festival at
Teachers College, Columbia University
- NYCoRE participates
in the Grassroots Media Conference at the New School.
- NYCoRE holds
its mid-year retreat
- NYCoRE presents
a workshop at the National Conference on Organized Resistance in
Washington D.C.
March
2006
- NYCoRE Inquiry
to Action Groups (ItAGs) are completed for this academic year.
- NYCoRE screens
the film Granito de Arena at the UFT Center
April
2006
- NYCoRE's
Coalition Against The Criminalization of Youth (CACY) presents a
workshop at the Threat n Youth Conference at Teachers College, Columbia
University
- NYCoRE
presents at the American Education Research Association (AERA) conference
on An Unnatural Disaster.
- NYCoRE
meets with members of T4SJ, Rethinking Schools, Education not Incarceration,
amongst others at the New School in San Francisco.
- NYCoRE
releases No
Human is Illegal!
- ¡Ningún Ser Humano es Ilegal!:
A
Resource Guide for Educators on Immigration
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