Council of School Supervisors & Administrators
local 1: american federation of school administrators, afl-cio
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May 11 Day Care Rally
On May 11, union leaders, elected officials and community advocates joined hundreds of parents, Day Care teachers and Directors, and children near City Hall to urge the City Council to reject the mayor’s budget proposing to cut millions of dollars in child care services. CSA First Vice President Randi Herman passionately expressed her solidarity, telling the crowed: “Let us call this issue what it is – It is a women’s issue – those most dependent on subsidized day care are women, single mothers from the working poor, who cannot be treated like second-class citizens relegated to unemployment and poverty and despair.
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| Kids from Cypress Hill Childcare Center in Queens rallied and held up signs. | 112.47 KB |
| Day care students happily joined the protesting crowd. | 74.98 KB |
| Parents, teachers and community advocates chanted "No Justice, No Peace" | 105.01 KB |
| A young activist observes the scene. | 69.39 KB |
| "What's happening is an injustice," said Sonia Ivany, President, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement. | 107.94 KB |
| Picketers held signs during the event. | 102.03 KB |
| Far right: Pedro Cordero, Director, Goddard Riverside DCC poses with other Day Care Administrators at the rally. | 118.36 KB |
| Early Childhood education advocates from all over the city showed their support. | 93.65 KB |
| Kathy Malloy, Director, Community and Parents Day Care Center is flanked by parents and teachers from her site. | 107.84 KB |
| Parents and teachers chanted and cheered near City Hall against the city's plans to deplete day care funds. | 108.13 KB |
| AFT President Randi Weingarten demonstrated her solidarity during the event. | 101.83 KB |
| Council member Ydanis Rodriguez said: "lets save our children" after stating that each year 12,000 children are placed in the criminal system. | 87.56 KB |
| CSA First VP Dr. Herman is flanked by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio to her left and Council member David Greenfield to her right. | 75.09 KB |
| Left: City Council member Karen Koslowitz with Dr. Herman, CSA First Vice President at the rally. | 70.99 KB |
| Robert Jackson, City Councilman said he will vote "no" to a budget that will drastically cut child care services to his constituents. | 87.1 KB |
| "Let us not entrust our children to unqualified babysitters but keep our children in the care of educated, certified day care providers and out of harm’s way," said CSA First Vice President Randi Herman. | 120.55 KB |
| AFCME Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders fervently stated “We are here to speak up for the children of New York City; we have to stand-up for them”. | 81.48 KB |
| Protesters of all ages joined the fight against budget cuts to the working families of New York City. | 85.85 KB |
| Day Care Director Charles Rosa from Highbridge Nursery School in the Bronx attended the rally. | 90.54 KB |
| Demetry Aiken, teacher from Haitian American Day Care #3 in Brooklyn rallies against the mayor's proposed budget cuts to early childhood education. | 78.14 KB |
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