In addition to the push for fair funding,
speakers at the rally urged legislative leaders not to cut money for public charter schools during the current budget negotiations.
Also noted by
many speakers at the rally was another budget highlight: a second straight year with a $ 1 billion boost in school spending.
Featured
speakers at the rally included Legislators Williams and Jenkins; New York State Senators Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Ruth Hassell - Thompson, Jeff Klein and George Latimer; and New York State Assembly members Sandra Galef, Shelley Mayer and Gary Pretlow.
The administration's fairly recent attempts to smooth relations with the sector have made FES» argument — often blared
through speakers at rallies — that de Blasio wants to close charter schools ring hollow.
He also was the
featured speaker at a rally for two Democratic Senate candidates on Long Island: Todd Kaminsky, who won Skelos» Senate seat, and Adam Haber, a Democrat running in an open seat vacated by Sen. Jack Martins, a Republican who is running for Congress.
The
keynote speaker at the rally will be Rep. Hakeem Jeffries who, according to Politico, «has been mentioned as a possible challenger» to de Blasio in the Democratic primary next year.
Speakers at the rally on Zagreb's Bana Jelacica square blasted the EU for allegedly wanting to «conquer» Croatia with its liberal policies.
The
main speakers at the rally includes party founder Jerry John Rawlings, former president John Mahama, NDC Chairman Kofi Portuphy, General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, and Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu.
Though the governor adopted some of the bluster of
other speakers at the rally, he didn't mention the Hudson Yards developer by name while speaking before thousands gathered at Union Square.
Several speakers at the rally noted that the state had this year not made the sizeable increase in school spending that it had committed to make as part of the resolution of the 13 - year Campaign for Fiscal Equity school funding lawsuit.
They were joined by Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins, who was the
final speaker at the rally and spoke for about six minutes.
Nevertheless,
speakers at the rally did discuss Dynasty and called for research organizations not to be labeled as foreign agents.
Handler, Maria Belo, Britton, Star's Benjamin Bratt and Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski are among the
scheduled speakers at a rally after the march.
The administration's fairly recent attempts to smooth relations with the sector have made FES» argument — often blared
through speakers at rallies — that de Blasio wants to close charter schools ring hollow.
Below are
speakers at the rally.
Among
the speakers at the rally was Crystal Williams, a Newark mom of six children.
Margaret Lee, who is a co-founder of the 47 Canal gallery, which is located directly above the James Cohan Gallery, was one of
the speakers at the rally.
However,
speakers at the rally and inside the Capitol fumed, suspecting that lawmakers would not take their demands seriously.
Speakers at the rally included U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D - Mo.)
Speakers at the rally included Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn; State Representative Dana Young (R - 57); State Representative Janet Cruz (D - 58); Chairman of the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners Ken Hagan; and Sylvia Alvarez, executive director of the Housing and Education Alliance.