Press Advisory: We want school health and safety report card

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2002

Parents Assemble at Board of Education Meeting

6p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008

The city’s grassroots public school reform organization, Parents and Communities United for Education (PCUE), will call on Jersey City Schools District Superintendent Charles T. Epps and the Jersey City Board of Education to adopt and implement PCUE’s proposal for a semi-annual health and safety report card, previously submitted. The advanced age of the city’s public school buildings – most are several decades old and some are over hundred years old -- calls for urgent attention to creating a healthy and safe school environment. A healthy school not only contributes to the comfort, health, and well-being of students but also allows students to perform better academically.

What: Parents assemble with signs in their hands to bring public attention to the need for school walkthrough and health and safety report card. Parent leaders will address the board and the public present at the meeting.

When: Thursday, Dec, 18, 2008 at 6pm

Where: School # 11, PS Martin Luther king, Jr.

886 Bergen Avenue, Jersey City 07306

Parents and Communities United for Education (PCUE) is the Jersey City chapter of the Statewide Education Organizing Committee (SEOC). PCUE is a grassroots and direct action organization working to improve Jersey City public schools. Since March of this year, PCUE has launched a campaign for healthy schools. Thanks to the effort of hundreds of parents and the community at large, school officials tested all our schools for lead in the drinking water, notified parents and the community of the testing schedule and test results, and provided water coolers to all schools until the lead remediation takes place.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Luella McFadden, PCUE President: 201-918-2918

Loyda Goldston, First Vice-president: 973-204-4121