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Below is a list of different organizations working for change.

Education - NYC and NY State

Class Size Matters
Class Size Matters is a non-profit, non-partisan clearinghouse for information on class size data and the proven benefits of smaller classes. They advocate for class size reduction in NY State and especially NYC, where our students are disadvantaged by being crammed into the largest classes in the state and some of the largest in the
nation.

ICOPE - Independent Commission on Public Education
The Independent Commission on Public Education works within a human
rights framework, which guarantees that every child in New York City
has the right to education. Children have the right to quality teachers
and curricula, and to a school environment that respects the dignity of
every child.

ICE-UFT  
The Independent Community of Educators (ICE) is an opposition caucus within the United Federation of Teachers. We started as a diverse  band of active and retired teachers who joined together in October 2003 to provide an alternative voice for
school workers, addressing the deplorable conditions for teaching and learning  in New York City, and exploring ways to make the UFT into a stronger and more  democratic union.

The Legacy Circle
The Legacy Circle is dedicated to empowering African Diaspora youth and adults in New York City through cultural arts education. Our goal is to awaken young people to their identity as African descendants and their legacy as leaders and Maroon Warriors. Our Training Institute will prepare African Diaspora teaching artists to initiate young people into grassroots action. It will impart tools for cultural arts educators such as leadership development and youth community organizing using arts and culture as the vehicle. Teaching artists will engage in residencies where youth will create cultural art pieces that affirm who they are and what they envision for their education and their communities. Youth will then use their art to organize for power in their villages.

Radical Math
Radical Math Teachers are educators who work to integrate issues of political, economic, and social justice into our math classes, and we seek to inspire and support other educators to do the same.

The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest)  works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and  to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is  fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.  They place special emphasis on eliminating the racial, class, gender, and cultural barriers to equal opportunity
posed by standardized tests, and preventing their damage to the quality of education. Based on Goals and Principles, they provide information, technical assistance and advocacy on a broad range  of testing concerns, focusing on three areas: K-12, university admissions, and employment tests.  Tons of information on the flaws of standardized testing.

Teachers Unite
Teachers Unite is dedicated to developing and supporting an educational justice movement of New York City’s public school teachers. By providing resources and workshops that build professional support and organizing skills, it will be a central site for educators committed to social justice to meet, exchange ideas and develop plans of action.

Time Out from Testing
Time Out from Testing is a statewide coalition of parent, educator, business, community, and civil rights organizations in New York State committed to a "time-out" from excessive and high stakes exams.

Education - National

Carribean Cultural Center
The Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute is a not for profit, multi-disciplinary cultural arts organizations named in honor of the late Franklin H. Williams, ambassador to Ghana and who served as the second president of the Board of the Caribbean Cultural Center. The mission is to identify, compile and disseminate information on the creative expressions and rich cultural contributions of people of African descent, internationally.

Education for Liberation Network
A national coalition of teachers, community activists, youth, researchers and parents who believe a good education should teach people—particularly low-income youth and youth of color—to understand and challenge the injustices their communities face.

Check out the EdLib Lab, an online “laboratory” for finding, discussing and developing social justice teaching materials. The lab features a searchable curriculum database. Use it to:

* Find educational materials on social justice topics.
* Share materials you have created.
* Comment on the contributions of others.

The lab also incudes a monthly discussion series called talkin 'bout that brings together educators, activists and youth to participate in a public, online conversation about timely and important topics in liberatory education.

GLSEN - Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
Founded as a volunteer group in Boston in 1990, GLSEN has grown into one of the nation's leading voices for equality and safety in the educational system.

H2ED
As an initiative of NH2A, H2Ed’s mission is to advocate on a grassroots and institutional level for educational reform. H2Ed advocates for educators, educational institutions and anyone who has a stake in the youth educational process. To fulfill their mission, H2ED will work to create a community among teachers, organizations, parents, and social workers – called T.O.P.S.Y. – the top educational stakeholders. H2Ed’s objective is not centered upon learning about the musical genre of Hip-Hop itself, but exploring how curriculum, activities and learning models using Hip-Hop culture as a learning tool can be a more effective way to connect, educate, and activate youth.

Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools produces a number off texts and resources across the country. They are firmly committed to equity and to the vision that public education is central to the creation of a humane, caring, multiracial democracy. While writing for a broad audience, Rethinking Schools emphasizes problems facing urban schools, particularly issues of race.

Teaching for Change
Teaching for Change provides curriculum guides and other resources to help teachers engage students in innovative classroom activities that deal with issues of equity and social justice.

Teachers 4 Social Justice
Teachers 4 Social Justice is a San Francisco based grassroots non-profit teacher support and development organization.  Their mission is to provide opportunities for self-transformation, leadership, and community building to educators in order to affect meaningful change in the classroom, school, community and society.

Families

Mothers on the Move
Mothers on the Move is a social justice community organization. They are organizing to build a just society where there is equal economic, social and political opportunity for all. They work collectively, based on our love for our children, our families, our community and humanity.

Center for Immigrant Families
The Center conducts workshops with headstart centers and service agencies that have not typically had an organizing component and with community groups interested in strengthening their work. Participants can also pursue 'organizing for change' training, which include issue analysis, long-term planning and organizational building sessions.

Foundations

AJ Muste
The A.J. Muste Memorial Institute funds projects which promote the use of nonviolence to achieve social justice. Our grantmaking revolves around the issues to which A.J. Muste dedicated his life: peace and disarmament; social and economic justice; racial and sexual equality; and labor rights. You can sustain this work by donating to the Muste Institute.

Media

IndyKids
A free newspaper and teaching tool that aims to inform children on current news and world events from a progressive perspective and to inspire a passion for social justice and learning. It is geared toward kids in grades 4 to 8 and high school English Language Learners.

NYC Indy Media
The NYC Independent Media Center is a grassroots organization committed to using media production and distribution as tools for promoting social and economic justice in the New York City Area. We are dedicated to addressing issues that the mainstream media neglects and we do not conceal our politics behind a false objectivity. We hope to empower people to "become the media" by providing democratic access to available technologies and information.

Paper Tiger Television
Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) is an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective. Through the production and distribution of their public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings and grassroots advocacy PTTV works to challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media. PTTV believes that
increasing public awareness of the negative influence of mass media and
involving people in the process of making media is mandatory for our long term goal of information equity. PTTV has partnered with NYCoRE on two video's: "Military Myths" and "Class Dismissed".

Youth

Youth Activists Youth Allies (Ya-Ya)
The Ya-Ya Network is a citywide anti-racist, anti-sexist organization and allies with the LGBTQ community. Ya-Ya is staffed by young activists ages 15-19. We work with other youth, adult allies, youth programs & activist organizations. We help groups & individuals connect. We share information & resources & we support the work that other groups are doing. All to build a stronger voice for young people in the movement for social & economic justice.

University

CUNY Graduate Center - Urban Education Ph.D. Program
The Ph.D. Program in Urban Education prepares leaders in educational research and policy analysis who have a broad understanding of the complex issues facing urban education and are well prepared to contribute to the knowledge base needed to improve educational practice.

War

United for Peace and Justice
United for Peace and Justice is a coalition of more than 800 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.

Youth Allies

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol has been created to address the dire need for supportive programs for Black and Latino youth who are surrounded by the poverty, drugs, violence, racism and mis-education which plague America's cities. The Brotherhood/Sister Sol provides these youth with the knowledge, resources, opportunities, and love necessary in order to understand and overcome these negative pressures, as well as the skills
to combat them.

Prison Moratorium Project

Sista II Sista
Sista II Sista (SIIS) is a Brooklyn-wide community-based organization located in Bushwick. They are a collective of working-class young and adult Black and Latina women building together to model a society based on liberation and love. Our organization is dedicated to working with young women to develop personal, spiritual and collective power.  They are committed to fighting for justice and creating alternatives to the systems we live in by making social, cultural and political change.

Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice
Founded in 1994, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ) works in
the Bronx River, Bruckner and Soundview neighborhoods in the South
Bronx. YMPJ is a center for urban ministry dedicated to fostering peace
and justice through youth and community organization and development.
At the heart of YMPJ's mission is a framework, which defined young
people by their potential to make social change.

 

New York Collective of Radical Educators  
NYCoRE  
www.nycore.org  
email: info@nycore.org