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NEW Take Action: Please email high school principals https://placenyc.org//email-high-school-principals-on-adm/ For this year’s high school admissions, the Mayor announced that In consultation with their school communities, screened high schools can choose to remove their screens, utilize the Educational Option admissions method, or maintain academic screening.... It is important that high school principals hear from incoming parents. Please email principals to let them know that you wish for them to maintain academic screening at their schools. Three Easy Steps 1. Find the email address of the high school principal here. 2. Copy/paste the suggested email text. Feel free to personalize it. 3. Repeat for each school your child is applying to. Email Recipients: Look up the high school and the principal email here. Subject: Please Keep Your School’s Screened Admissions Dear Principal, I am a parent of a middle school student who believes that all children deserve appropriate academic support, including those students who learn at an accelerated pace. Sadly, given the average NYC class size and financial deficits, it is impossible to achieve this support without academic grouping. Therefore, as we look toward high school applications, I implore you to maintain academic screens at your school. We have months of pre-Covid data to use, as well as prior years’ test scores, to ensure that your school is able to provide the support you have successfully provided to students for years. Thank you for your consideration and we look forward to applying. Sincerely,

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Please take 5 minutes from your day to make 4 phone calls; you will most likely get an office staff member answering the phone. Your City Council Member: https://council.nyc.gov/districts/... Your Assembly Member https://nyassembly.gov/mem/search/ Your Senator https://www.nysenate.gov/find-my-senator Your Borough President: Brooklyn: Eric Adams 718-802-3700 Manhattan: Gale Brewer 212-669-8300 Queens: Donovan Richards 718-286-3000 The Bronx: Ruben Diaz, Jr. 718-590-3500 Staten Island: James Oddo 718-816-2000 If no one picks up, please leave a message. To make it easy, we are providing a short script. Please personalize it as you see fit. 2021 I live in your district. I am a parent of ## children in District ## at _________ school(s). I am asking you to insist that the DOE rollback the lottery admissions plan for Middle School Admissions. Lotteries are not fair - our kid's education should not be based on luck. This policy is bad for my family and all students in OUR DISTRICT. The DOE got it backwards. They say they are making these changes because of COVID. But this is the last thing families need when we’ve already gone through so much with remote learning, delayed admissions information and family hardships.

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