Much has changed since the fledgling Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), 14 New York City community school boards, and 23 individual parents and their children lodged the initial complaint charging the State of New York with denying «thousands
of public school students in the City of New York their constitutional rights to equal educational opportunities.»
Universal Free School Lunch Council members and Public Advocate Letitia James are pushing de Blasio to provide funding to pay for universal free lunch for
all public school students in the city.
During the years I spent as
a public school student in the city, my time teaching social studies to public school students, and now my experience as a public school parent, I have seen a great deal.
Through the cooperation and participation of individuals and companies, PENCIL has obtained millions of dollars, materials, and immeasurable time for the more than 1 million
public school students in the city.
The mayor said the additional schools would mean that charter school students could number 100,000 — 10 percent of
all public school students in the city by 2013.
TFA's more than 1,200 corps members and alumni are teaching and leading across the Greater New Orleans region, and today, seven of 10
public school students in the city of New Orleans attend a school featuring TFA corps members or alumni.
Achievement First schools accept students through a lottery open to
all public school students in the city or district they are in (AF runs schools in New York City and in Connecticut so the charters are different in NYC).