TESTIMONY
Tanesha Grant, Executive Director of Parents Supporting Parents NY on Challenges and Necessities of Remote Learning Access
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Tanesha Grant, Executive Director of Parents Supporting Parents NY, discusses the challenges in providing equitable remote learning access and digital resources to students.
- Addresses the lack of digital access and high-quality devices for students, advocating for equitable distribution.
- Criticizes the Department of Education for failing to provide sufficient support for whole learning and remote education.
- Highlights the organization's initiative to distribute laptops and printers to students, emphasizing the importance of high-quality technology.
- Calls for the provision of WiFi and Internet access to support students and families comprehensively.
- Condemns the Mayor's misguided blame on parents for the failures of remote learning, demanding a genuine apology for such remarks.
Tanesha Grant
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Hello.
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I'm here.
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Okay.
2:18:22
Hello.
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My name is Keisha Brea.
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I am the executive director of panel support here.
2:18:29
Technically, the tobacco trade communication is being engaged with the parent.
2:18:35
The Department of Education has taken a better photo for an important information online.
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We must keep in mind that all parents, the IMO.
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Can you hear me?
Ellen McHugh
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Yes.
Tanesha Grant
2:18:49
Okay.
2:18:50
Sorry.
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We must keep in mind that all parents included And as we see, who must keep in mind for that, the all parents' students cannot access that.
2:18:59
As we see, the military on February 3rd in February was at the back.
2:19:03
This is an issue that parents was doing for our company.
2:19:07
We already know the other day that they have provided 2 new devices.
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Last morning because our community based organization, our script is still giving out the right people's students with their own computers and printers.
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High quality too.
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We don't do Chromebooks or iPads.
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For too long, my students have been told they are good enough to have their own laptops, and that's small.
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All our children deserve digital access in a country responsive holistic way.
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I wanna say that air has been no real efforts in 20 trying to build a good learning field or online.
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This is not the only piece.
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Children like my son are being enrolled in online college class at school like legal academy with no communication with parents and no in school support.
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This is setting our children up to fail.
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We urge our child education to continue to hold the Department of Education responsible and accountable for the harmful leadership we faced by the Department of Education on the topic of a whole learning.
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We're gonna support in Paris, New York, but we continue in our own way to support our students and give as many students as we can.
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They're all high priority laptops and pictures.
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We will continue to we will continue to advocate for WiFi and Internet access to open all our students and family.
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I wanna say that I am a call to hear the may of blame, the feelings of remote learning or parents.
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The student and family of New York City to learn more, much more.
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And we deserve a real apology for his comment on that remote day.
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What's the date of my testimony again to the hospital exhibit?
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Thank you so much for your testimony.