Education Speaks is devoted to a thoughtful discussion of the issues shaping public education in New York’s Greater Capital Region and beyond.
Ed Speaks is sponsored by Capital Region BOCES, in collaboration with Questar III BOCES, HFM BOCES, WSWHE BOCES, Herkimer BOCES, St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES and the Genesee Valley Educational Partnership. The mission of Education Speaks is to work toward smart solutions to education’s biggest problems. Guest bloggers are leaders of our public schools — rural, urban and suburban alike — sharing insights on the issues people in their schools and communities care deeply about. Guest bloggers are backed by an editorial team from the Capital Region BOCES Communications Service who help moderate Education Speaks and work to keep a constructive conversation going.
Regular readers of this blog will discover that education leaders don’t always speak with one voice — but then again neither does the public. What Education Speaks does provide is a consistently compelling perspective on the promise and peril in our public schools — from the people who lead them.
Our goal is to advance a deeper understanding of education issues and to help move the conversation forward, toward new and creative solutions to the challenges facing our public schools.
Our Team
- Jill Aurora
- Steve King
- Deborah Bush-Suflita, Megan Allen, program managers
You can reach us at edspeaks@neric.org
I appreciate that you have created a dialogue for those interested in education in New York State. As a mother of five children 6 to 18, it has taken 12 years of PTA meetings, 10 years of school board meetings, to realize that education is in trouble in New York. I am not a trained educator, but have valued my Ulster County, NY education located in the Mid-Hudson Valley. I look to experts for direction on where to positively place my efforts to help in the cause to properly and equitably educate all of New York’s children. I appreciate the time you spend updating this blog and creating and educating the community. If you need a vested parent, I have been going to Albany for 6 months and our school district is definitely being redesigned in a way that is hard to accept. I am willing to learn and be coachable, but I need data and facts. Thanks again. I felt a breath of fresh air when I found your sight today. KUDOS.