Principal Melanie Raneri Woods, PS 29 UFT chair Pat Garvey, and PTA co-president-elect Lisa Trollbäck represented PS 29 this afternoon (6/2/08) at a press conference at Stuyvesant High School where NYC principals rallied against the proposed '08-'09 school budget cuts.
Principals took the podium, one after another, to speak out against the cuts. Speakers also included Betsy Gotbaum, Public Advocate for the City of New York ; Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers; several PTA presidents, and Cynthia Nixon, star of Sex and the City and public school parent/activist. Nixon had one of the best sound bytes: "In times of famine, you feed the children first." Photograph from this afternoon: Cynthia Nixon and Betsy Gotbaum discuss the budget cuts, and, yep, that's Melanie, too!
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