A panel of education leaders and advocates appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to guide the city’s reopening plans will begin meeting Wednesday.
The 45-member Education Sector Advisory Council is made up of parents, higher education officials, charter and religious school representatives, nonprofit and union leaders, and more.
The council is one of six that the mayor hopes will inform the city’s COVID-19 recovery and reopening in more fair and equitable ways. They will meet weekly.
“It’s very, very important that we think about everything that makes up life in this city,” he said at a recent press conference. The councils will “help us understand what is needed to get this restart right.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed his own advisory council, partnering with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to “reimagine” education in the state. That move sparked outrage here, especially after no current New York City educators were named to the group though the school system is the largest in the state, as well as the country. It was the latest snub traded between the governor and the mayor, whose long-running feud has continued to simmer even during the pandemic.
Here are all the members of de Blasio’s education council.
Education Sector Advisory Council members
1. Melissa Aase, University Settlement
2. Shirley Aldebol, 32 BJ SEIU
3. Andrea Anthony, Day Care Council
4. David C Banks, Eagle Academy
5. Richard Beattie, New Visions for Public Schools
6. Sian Beilock, Barnard College
7. Jack Bendheim, SAR Academy Riverdale
8. Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia University
9. Phoebe Boyer, Children’s Aid Society
10. Marc Brackett, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence/Developer, RULER
11. Richard Buery, Achievement First
12. Mark Cannizzaro, CSA
13. Natasha Capers, NYC Coalition for Educational Justice
14. Steven Choi, New York Immigration Coalition
15. Michael Coppotelli, Archdiocese of New York
16. Margaret Crotty, Partnership with Children
17. Traci Donnelly, Child Center of NY
18. Gregory Floyd, Local 237, School Safety Agents
19. Jane Foley Fried, NY State Association of Independent Schools
20. Kay Galarza, Student PEP Member
21. Henry Garrido, DC 37
22. Peter Gee, The Door
23. Barbara Glassman, Include NYC
24. Jasmine Gripper, Alliance for Quality Education
25. Anita Gundanna, Coalition for Asian American Children and Families
26. Andrew Hamilton, NYU
27. Kristin Kearns Jordan, Urban Assembly
28. Thomas Krever, Hetrick-Martin Institute
29. Vanessa Leung, PEP Member- Individualized Education Program
30. Stanley Litow, IBM Foundation
31. Joe Luft, Internationals Network for Public Schools
32. Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, CUNY Chancellor
33. Nequan Mclean, Education Council Consortium, (ECC)
34. Joan McMaster, Diocese of Brooklyn
35. Wes Moore, Robin Hood
36. Michael Mulgrew, UFT
37. Allison Palmer, ED, New Settlement College Access Center
38. Shael Polakow-Suransky, Bank Street College of Education
39. Susan Stamler, United Neighborhood Houses
40. Robert J Troeller, Local 891, Custodian Engineers
41. Javier H. Valdés, Make the Road
42. Dennis Walcott, Queens Public Library
43. Sheena Wright, President & CEO United Way NY
44. Michelle Yanche, Good Shepherds Services
45. Rabbi Dovid Zweibel, Agudath Israel
