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The following announcement was submitted by Brittany Brathwaite,
Girls for Gender Equity's Manager of Organizing and Innovation.
Last October, we launched our School Girls Deserve Campaign, and we’re ready to take the campaign into its next phase starting with a press conference and hearing on April 30.
Let's get you caught up on what we've been able to accomplish.
We’ve held ongoing meetings with New York City Council and government agencies in effort to hire seven full-time Title IX coordinators in field offices throughout New York City. Currently, only one person is tasked with supporting all 1.1 million students in New York City's 1,800 public schools, which, as you know, means that students are often left without support when incidents of sexual harassment occur.
We also attended and gave testimony at the New York City Council Preliminary Education Budget Hearing detailing the experience and effects of sexual harassment in schools. Following the hearing, Councilmember Adrienne Adams introduced a resolution calling on the city to hire seven full-time Title IX coordinators, and now the Council has scheduled an oversight hearing on Title IX and Gender Discrimination for April 30, 2019!
Our request for the hires was included in the City Council’s preliminary budget response.
Let's get you caught up on what we've been able to accomplish.
We’ve held ongoing meetings with New York City Council and government agencies in effort to hire seven full-time Title IX coordinators in field offices throughout New York City. Currently, only one person is tasked with supporting all 1.1 million students in New York City's 1,800 public schools, which, as you know, means that students are often left without support when incidents of sexual harassment occur.
We also attended and gave testimony at the New York City Council Preliminary Education Budget Hearing detailing the experience and effects of sexual harassment in schools. Following the hearing, Councilmember Adrienne Adams introduced a resolution calling on the city to hire seven full-time Title IX coordinators, and now the Council has scheduled an oversight hearing on Title IX and Gender Discrimination for April 30, 2019!
Our request for the hires was included in the City Council’s preliminary budget response.
In advance of our press conference, we're planning a Twitter storm on April 29, at 1:30 p.m. (EST), in order to make the New York City Department of Education hear and understand what young people of color in New York City are experiencing.
Click here for additional information and to join our effort.
Click here for additional information and to join our effort.
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