Grassroots Education Movement

Los Sures fights against Success Academy Charter School!

Watch the latest video from Real Reform Studios about Success Academy’s planned occupation of Middle School 50 in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Hear Williamsburg city council members, educators, parents and students voice their opposition to co-location. Continue reading →

Please download GEM NYC’s The Truth About High Stakes Testing in NYC pamphlet. Find out why high stakes testing is ultimately a destructive force for children and schools and what alternatives exist! Continue reading →

What Is The Truth About Charters?

Find out by downloading our brochure here! Continue reading →

In recent years, New York State has expanded the use of high stakes standardized testing. We are concerned about the ever-increasing over-reliance on results from standardized tests to measure student learning. We are calling on Governor Cuomo, the State Education Department, the New York State Board of Regents, and New York’s legislative leaders to develop and implement a process by which parents/guardians concerned about the impacts of testing on student learning can voluntarily opt their children out of standardized testing. Continue reading →

GEM NYC focuses on the equality and quality of public educational services as well as the rights of teachers and school workers.

Too many current corporate and government policies seek to underfund, undermine and privatize our public school system. As the attacks on public education and teachers grow more vicious, the collective organization of those who directly face these attacks at the grassroots level becomes all the more essential, and in fact constitutes the most effective potential resistance.

GEM advocates for a positive vision of education reform by building alliances with other activist groups and organizing and helping coordinate the struggle at the grassroots school and community level, with a focus on school-level organizing.

Follow the work of the Change the Stakes Campaign - a campaign to develop a non punitive process for parents to opt their children out the current high stakes testing regime in place in the NYS school system.

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