Labor Goes to the Movies Special Saturday Screening-Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education

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Join us for our special back-to-back Saturday screening/discussion on January 21 of Waiting For Superman and The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman.

One has received massive publicity and funding to promote charter schools as part of a neoliberal reform. The second one is a local NYC response, made by NYC schoolteachers, exposing the inaccuracy and inequity driving the charter school movement. We will view both films and have a discussion featuring Julie Cavanagh, one of the Inconvenient Truth producers, and PSC's Treasurer and author on the charter school movement, Michael Fabricant.

The screening is sponsored by the PSC and is open to the public.
PSC Union Hall
61 Broadway, 16th Floor
$2 donation
Refreshments served

Julie Cavanagh has been a special education teacher for more than ten years at PS 15 in Red Hook, Brooklyn. She is a member of Grassroots Education Movement; advocating for equity and real reform in our public education system. Julie is also the co-producer of the documentary The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman.

Michael Fabricant is Treasurer of the Professional Staff Congress. Since his election six years ago, he has continued his work at the Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare. His most recent writing, Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education: What's at Stake? (2012, co-authored with Michelle Fine), explores both the threat of charter schooling and the role of organizing in redressing inequitable public education investment across race and class divides.