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Educators for Excellence-New York Reacts to New York City Budget

June 30 (New York City) — Amid weeks of city-wide protests for the reallocation of City funding, E4E-New York, a teacher-led organization, expressed their disappointment in budget cuts to education and student supports. 

"My students need more mental-health and academic...

Juneteenth: A Celebration and Call to Action

As an eighth-grade social studies teacher, E4E-New York member Michael Simmon often discusses injustice with his students--including the structures and systems that create an unequal playing field for Black students and educators.

Michael says that an important responsibility of...

Educators for Excellence Celebrates Supreme Court Decision on DACA

June 18 (New York) — Educators for Excellence (E4E), a teacher-led organization, celebrates the Supreme Court’s ruling today against the Trump Administration’s efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, thereby ensuring nearly 800,000 Dreamers can...

"Mama"

I was 11 years old and my family and I were driving to an amusement park for the first time. My brother, cousin and I noisily discussed our exciting plans and dared each other to take the scariest roller coaster ride. Once we got there, it felt so magical.

A few hours later, my uncle...

Two White Mothers' Commitment to Anti-Racism

Fact: we are two white mothers, raising two white boys. And although many would be right to say, don't make this about you, we also know it is incumbent upon us to reflect on how we show up in this moment. We are raising our boys in a country that awards us and them immense privileges at the...

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter. 

George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and so many more, were murdered by police and racism.

The recent string of killings of Black people did not receive the attention and swift justice that they deserve because we live in a society that...

Teaching While Black in Grief and Rage

"At once I paid down all my savings, and was soon afterwards able to complete the required sum, and my certificate of freedom was signed. It was the first of June, 1837…I put on my Sunday clothes and rode to Carmel…everyone was surprised to see me appearing in this manner on a week-day, but I...