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Today, New York City Students Walk Out to Save Their Right to Metrocards

6:27 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Education|New York City · 4 Comments

11 Jun 2010

With the ever looming threat of higher fares, working class and poor familias are left wondering how will their children go to school if the free Metrocard program in New York City is cut, as has been suggested, as a way to deal with the NY state and city budget crisis.

Today, students themselves demonstrate what will happen if their means to get to school was cut. They won’t be in school. Thousands will engage in school walk-outs to save student metro-cards. The city-wide action is being organized by the Urban Youth Collaborative, representing thousands of students across the city who have been at the forefront of the campaign to save student MetroCards.

Shoshi Doza of DRUM says,

” If student metro-cards are cut, many of Queen’s mostly immigrant and low-income families will suffer greatly. Many of our constituents as South Asian immigrant families simply cannot afford $1200 per child in additional expenses each year while they are already getting laid off and cannot find work. This means many low-income immigrant students will be pushed out of education and a good future.”

While I Deconstruct the Gutierrez Immigration Bill..Protest the NY MTA

10:22 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York City · 1 Comment

15 Dec 2009

I’m working on deconstructing the CIR ASAP pero in the meantime, I wanted to take a few moments to come down against the NY’s Metropolitan Transit Authority’s plan to deal with it’s budget shortfall by slowly eliminating the free student metrocard program for middle and high schoolers.

JOIN COUNCILMEMBER CHARLES BARRON, TRANSIT WORKERS, RIDERS AND YOUTH TOMORROW, WED 8:30 AM
TO PROTEST THE MTA’S ATTACK ON STUDENTS AND OTHERS
Wednesday, 8:30 AM at MTA Headquarters, 347 Madison Street , Bet 44th and 45th Street

I am a parent whose child uses her student metrocard to go to and from school. As a single mother with two children, I can barely afford to put myself on the subway to commute to an from work, mush less the additional at least $100/month it would cost for me to send my child to school . In New York City, especially, where overcrowding of local schools force parents to school outside their neighborhoods, not to mention the disparities in terms of resources depending on what community you live in, the move to eliminate student metrocards is a death sentence to the education of hundreds of thousands of students.
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