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Elisabeth

My name is Elisabeth and I am an eigth grader. My group is focusing on education inequity. I chose this topic because I think that it's really important to fight to fairly educate everyone because they could be our future leaders or people who change the world.

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AQENY Parent’s Meeting 12/21

We had the opportunity to sit in on a meeting with parents from all different boroughs that worked with AQENY. We came on time, which was ap [...]
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P.S. 98 12/14

On Monday, December 14th, we were originally scheduled to volunteer at a program called DEER, Drop Everything and Read. It was an animal the [...]
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Breakfast with Santa at St.Brigids via CSF 12/19

Anna, Sophie, Ryann, Reggi and I all volunteered at a Christmas event at St.Brigids with Children’s Scholarship Fund as a joint effort [...]
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Lobbying in Albany with AQENY 1/12

At 5 in the morning, when the moon was still out, we began our trip to Albany. After driving to One Metrotech and walking around in the free [...]
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Protesting at City Hall with AQENY 1/10

A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to stand on the steps of City Hall with AQENY as the conducting a protest/press event. As we ap [...]
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Phone Call with Renee Shaw 1/11

Yesterday we talked to Renee Shaw, a tech specialist at Barret Elementary school in Arlington, Virginia. Only a year after her school was re [...]
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Volunteering with the Go Project 12/5

A couple of weeks ago we went to volunteer with the Go Project. It was on a saturday at our school, starting at 9:30. When we arrived at the [...]
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Meeting with Jump Start 11/19

Today we sat in on a meeting at the Jump Start offices. The meeting was with a few members of the Jump Start community and three college stu [...]
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Beyond Measure Screening 11/12

Beyond Measure was a screening held by Mya Dunlop, whose son created MyloWrites. Beyond Measure talks about the curriculum that most schools [...]
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Interview with Halee Sage 11/15

Halee Sage was a teacher with the organization Teach for America for 3 years. Teach for America is an organization that sends teachers to un [...]
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Meeting with Maria Bautista from AQENY 11/15

AQENY is the Alliance for Quality Education New York. 3 days ago we met with their campaign coordinator, Maria Bautista. The organization th [...]
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Waiting for Superman 11/9

Our group watched the movie Waiting for Superman directed by Davis Guggenheim. Waiting for Superman focused mainly on charter schools, and t [...]

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