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To move the needle system-wide in NYC Public Schools, we must consider the widest gap between all children living in the city and children attending its public schools: 1/9

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Naveed Hasan elected as a Community Education Council representative to the New York City Panel for Educational Policy - Columbia Spectator

Naveed Hasan, SEAS ’00, ’02, a graduate of New York City public schools and resident of School District 3, was elected in January to serve as a Community Education Council representative on the Panel for Education Policy, the city’s highest education policy board.

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Throughout New York City, 19% of children live below the poverty line; however in NYC Public Schools overall, a staggering 73% of children are economically disadvantaged. The situation is actually worse when you see how many public schools are composed of nearly 100% of students living in poverty, most with housing and food insecurity. 2/9
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We cannot be satisfied with approaches that only try to, from time to time in their lives, identify the most promising amongst the economically disadvantaged and plucks them out of a "bad" public school or classroom. 3/9
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This strategy is too narrow and will miss the rest of the students with amazing potential of all sorts and also will not help solve the issue of inequity and disparity of life outcomes over the long term. It may be necessary to at least help some, but it is deeply insufficient in reducing glaring differences between demographic groups. 4/9
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There are two main prongs to begin to address the public school attendee economic gap.

First is to sustain a whole of government response to poverty eradication. The US is the wealthiest nation on the planet and yet we have some of the worst social outcomes for most of the population, especially as compared to advanced OECD countries. 5/9

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Second is to have a far greater number of families that are currently educating their children outside of NYC Public Schools choose to consistently attend public schools. This is hindered by a few big factors, none unsolvable: government bureaucracy, lower pay vs industry, unresponsiveness of top-down control, political decision making and an unequal distribution of non-public school seats. 6/9
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Students, parents and teachers - those on the front lines of this behemoth system - must get and remain involved in advocacy around their daily needs in public schools. 7/9
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I recommend focusing on the early childhood and elementary school levels and bolstering non-rejective programs which show increased sustained demand over time. Urgently supporting these public schools should be the highest priority for policy makers to keep a pipeline of students served well by public schools at the earliest ages. Every school that graduates from "bad" status to "good" is a treasure to that immediate local community and a step towards repairing the entire system. 8/9
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It is my core belief that education is a public & common good and community systems that work best are shared in their use, governance & sense of ownership by a broad cross section of society. 9/9

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Naveed Hasan elected as a Community Education Council representative to the New York City Panel for Educational Policy - Columbia Spectator

Naveed Hasan, SEAS ’00, ’02, a graduate of New York City public schools and resident of School District 3, was elected in January to serve as a Community Education Council representative on the Panel for Education Policy, the city’s highest education policy board.

Columbia Daily Spectator