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Teen Pregnancy and Plan B in NYC Schools

Inside City Hall with Errol Louis

Discussing our recent victory in the NYS Appellate Court on our Educational Quality and School Safety Lawsuit

Education Quality and School Safety Lawsuit Press Conference

Reforming The Dismissal Statutes And Arbitrator Selection Process

NYS Senate Education Committee

Hearing on Mayoral Control

Lifting The Cell Phone Ban In NYC Schools

Putting the safety of students first

Holding the DOE accountable with Councilman Bill de Blasio

In The News

  • Mona Davids Interview With Errol Louis On Inside City Hall Discussing NYC Schools Opening In September

    by Admin June 8, 2021

    Errol Louis, the host of Inside City Hall on NY1 interviews Mona Davids, Founder of the NYC Parents Union on…

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  • Parents say Richard Carranza calls them racist for opposing diversity program

    by Admin May 21, 2019

    Mona Davids, president of the NYC Parents Union, agreed.“Because de Blasio and Carranza have such racist low expectations for black…

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  • Lead Plaintiff Mona Davids Statement On Latest Victory For Parents In The Historic Education Quality And Safety Lawsuit

    by Admin June 28, 2018

    For Immediate Release July 20, 2018 Contacts: Mona Davids | 646.872.7149 | mona@nycparentsunion.org Sam Pirozzolo | 917.533.3437 | sam@nycparentsunion.org  Lead…

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  • Mona Davids on Inside City Hall with Errol Louis

    by Admin June 27, 2018
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  • NYC Has the Most Segregated Schools in the Country. How Do We Fix That?

    by Admin June 27, 2018

    Parent advocate Mona Davids, president of the New York City Parents Union—whose daughter graduated from LaGuardia two years ago—called the mayor’s…

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  • Hey, de Blasio, what’s your plan for better schools?

    by guest June 26, 2018

    By Mona Davids | April 8, 2014 | Thursday will be Mayor de Blasio’s 100th day in office, and he still hasn’t presented…

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  • Mona Davids Live on CNN with Soledad O’Brien

    by Admin June 26, 2018
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  • Lawsuit to outlaw teacher tenure can proceed to trial, court rules

    by Admin June 26, 2018

    New York City Parents Union founder Mona Davids, the suit’s original plaintiff, said she remains committed to the suit. “This…

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  • City Council schedules hearing on ‘Avonte’s Law’ school-exit alarms

    by Admin June 26, 2018

    Mona Davids of the NYC Parents Union said she was pleased the council is finally taking up the measure. “Council…

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  • Mona Davids on NBC News Discussing the New UFT Contract

    by Admin June 26, 2018
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Mom // Education Advocate // Communications & Political Consultant

Mona Davids Live on CNN

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Mona Davids on Inside City Hall with Errol Louis

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Mona Davids Speaking at Columbia University – Teachers College

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Still I Rise – A Poem By Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise
I rise
I rise.

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