To: Community Education Council 6 and Dennis Walcott, NYC DOE Chancellor

DISTRICT 6 PARENTS AGAINST ELEMENTARY DE-ZONING/PADRES DEL DISTRITO 6 EN CONTRA DE LA DE-ZONIFICA...

To the members of the District 6 Community Education Council:

We the undersigned are opposed to eliminating school zones and creating a lottery system for District 6’s elementary schools.

We feel that a lottery system would undermine the choices we enjoy in this District by eliminating the right to a zoned school and forcing our children to attend whichever school a computer assigns to them.

Furthermore, de-zoning does nothing to actually improve the quality of our schools and proponents of the plan have presented zero evidence showing how it would improve educational outcomes. De-zoning doesn't create better schools; it just shuffles kids around.

We encourage the CEC and the Department of Education to increase the options for District 6 families and to make sure those options are accessible to all – which can be done without giving up our right to send our children to school close to home.

Sincerely,

Miembros del Consejo Comunitario de Educación del Distrito 6:

Los que hemos firmado debajo, nos oponemos a la eliminación de zonas escolares y a la creación de un sistema de lotería para las escuelas primarias del Distrito 6.

Creemos con mucha firmeza que un sistema de esta naturaleza reduce las opciones que disfrutamos actualmente este Distrito, eliminando el derecho de elegir una escuela dentro de la zona y obligando a nuestros hijos a asistir a cualquier escuela que le asigna un computador totalmente al azar.

Por otra parte, la de-zonificación no hace ningún tipo de aporte para mejorar la calidad de nuestras escuelas y las propuestas presentadas en dicho plan no evidencian la posible mejoría en los resultados académicos. De-zonificación no es crear mejores escuelas, básicamente consiste en esparcir niños aleatoriamente sin criterio alguno.

Incentivamos a la CEC y el Departamento de Educación de crear más opciones para las familias del Distrito 6 asegurando que las mismas sean asequibles para todos y se puede lograr sin renunciar a nuestro derecho de enviar a nuestros hijos a una escuela cercana.

Atentamente,

Why is this important?

Parents and community members in Manhattan's School District 6 are asking the CEC and DOE to table the issue of "school choice" currently under consideration. CEC6 and the DOE have not provided any evidence that dezoning has benefited other school districts or that it achieves its stated purposes or that it would benefit our children or ensure that everyone has access to good schools.
For more information: www.savedistrict6.com or www.facebook.com/d6parents