2002

    October 2002

  • First NYCoRE meeting.

  • Development of “Military Myths,” NYCoRE’s anti-military recruitment curriculum, begins soon after.


    • 2003

    April 2003

  • NYCoRE appears on WABC to promote NYCoRE the day before NYCoRE’s anti-military bake sale.

  • “Bake Sale” action in front of the offices of NY Senators Clinton and Schumer to protest the obscene US military budget and the lack of funding for quality education. Baked goods with anti-military quotes/research are sold at the action.

    May 2003

  • NYCoRE appears on “Education at the Crossroads” on NY’s WBAI (99.5 fm).

    June 2003

  • NYCoRE facilitates workshops on “Military Myths” at AFSC’s anti-war conference in Philadelphia, PA.

    July 2003

  • 1st NYCoRE Strategy Retreat NYCoRE’s mission statement was finalized and its Points of Unity were started at this retreat.

    August 2003

  • NYCoRE’s Points of Unity are finalized.

    September 2003

  • NYCoRE meeting decide on whether NYCoRE should focus on challenging high-stakes testing or an anti-military campaign.

    October 2003

  • Sixth lesson is added to NYCoRE’s “Military Myths” curriculum.

  • October 25th: NYCoRE members march in Washington, DC with members of SLAM.

    December 2003

  • NYCoRE meeting. An anti-high stakes testing plan is finalized at this meeting.


    2004

    February 2004

  • February 2nd: NYCoRE holds an open meeting with a focus on the impending 3rd grade high-stakes testing policy at Hunter College in Manhattan.

  • February 9th: NYCoRE attends the first Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) meeting where an anti-testing voice is heard. NYCoRE gets exposure on TV news, as well as in the New York Times, Daily News and Newsday newspaper.

    March 2004

  • NYCoRE action strategy meeting at East Side Community High School in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

  • March 15th: NYCoRE performs a mock lesson plan to protest the plan to make the 3rd grade exams high-stakes. The policy passes at the meeting after Mayor Bloomberg “replaces” three PEP members that were set to vote against the policy.

  • NYCoRE appears on the radio to speak out against the 3rd grade testing policy.

  • March 20th: NYCoRE marches in NYC against the US occupation of Iraq.

    April 2004

  • NYCoRE members attend a PEP meeting and present facts about the detrimental effects of high-stakes testing. Mayoral candidate Charles Barron is in attendance.

  • Educational Notes publish NYCoRE’s “Position Statement on High-Stakes Testing.”

  • April 29th:NYCoRE appears on WBAI to promote NYCoRE.

    May 2004

  • NYCoRE holds an Organizational Retreat

    June 2004

  • IESP meeting.

  • NYCoRE and Paper Tiger collaborate to organize 2 screenings of “Class Dismissed,” a short film focusing on the textbook industry and its correlation to how students are taught history. The film is developed by Paper Tiger Films and narrated by historian/activist Howard Zinn.

  • First run-through of NYCoRE anti-testing workshop at NYU.

    July 2004

  • July 4th and 5th: 2nd NYCoRE Strategy Retreat.

    August 2004

  • Paper Tiger and NYCoRE members collaborate to develop lesson plans for a curriculum guide that will accompany the “Class Dismissed” video.

  • August 29th: NYCoRE members march in NYC against the Republican National Convention.

  • NYCore is featured in I am New York City (page 6)

    September 2004

  • September 2nd: NYCoRE members attend an anti-Bush rally in Manhattan as he is nominated by the Republican Party to run for president in November’s election.

    October 2004

  • October 1st: NYCoRE Open Informational Meeting at Teachers and Writers in Manhattan. “Playing Field” activity from NYCoRE’s anti-testing workshop is done here.

  • October 29th: NYCoRE members facilitate the full anti-testing workshop at the New York Social Forum. The workshop is held at the Community Church of New York in Manhattan.

    November 2004

  • November 19th and 20th: NYCoRE co-sponsors H2Ed’s 2nd Annual Hip Hop Education Summit at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.


    2005

    January 2005

  • NYCoRE launches the Study Group project to support work around teaching for social justice.

    • April 2005

  • NYCoRE includes a position "plank" in ICOPE's (Independent Commission on Public Education) Mayoral Election platform.

    • May 2005

  • NYCoRE and supporters holds a silent protest against highstakes testing at the steps of Tweed Courthouse during a Panel on Educational Policy meeting.

  • NYCoRE hosts its first Study Group Finale. Each Study Group (Discipline, English Language Learners in Schools, and Adapting Mainstream Curriculum to Social Justice) presents a review of its work.

  • The Discipline Study Group extends into the Campaign Against the Criminalization of Youth (CACY).

  • NYCoRE participates in the CUNY Graduate Center Urban Education Program's Urban Dialogue Series

    • June 2005

  • NYCoRE's

    Coalition Against The Criminalization of Youth

    (CACY) and the Prison Moratorium Project hold a forum discussing the issue of safe high schools.

    • July 2005

  • NYCoRE holds its annual summer retreat and decides to move into a Project-based model where core members will become point people for three organizing projects (Military Myths: Counter Recruitment; Coalition Against the Criminalization of Youth; and Justice not Just Tests) and a support project for educators (Inquiry to Action Groups)

    • August 2005

  • NYCoRE sponsors the participation of two youth in the Summer Youth Institute being facilitated by the Institute for Education and Social Policy (IESP) at NYU.

  • NYCoRE demonstrates against the decision to use the English Language Arts (ELA) and Math exams as the basis of promotion for seventh graders at the Panel on Educational Policy Meeting.

    • September 2005

  • NYCoRE produces An Unnatural Disaster: A Critical Guide for Addressing the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Classroom

  • ICOPE holds a press conference presenting their Education Platform for the NYC Mayoral Election.

    • October 2005

  • NYCoRE Inquiry to Action Groups (ItAGs) are launched for the 05-06 academic year.

  • NYCoRE presents at the 3rd Annual Center for Antioppressive Education Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.

    • December 2005

  • NYCoRE's Anti-Military Recruitment organizing projects helps organize a panel discussing military recruitment in schools at Vanguard High School.


    • 2006

    January 2006

  • NYCoRE sponsors Letters from Young Activists at Teachers College, Columbia University

    • February 2006

  • NYCoRE participates at the Caribbean Cultural Center's Caribbean Cultural Festival at Teachers College, Columbia University

  • NYCoRE participates in the Grassroots Media Conference at the New School.

  • NYCoRE holds its mid-year retreat

  • NYCoRE presents a workshop at the National Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington D.C.

    • March 2006

  • NYCoRE Inquiry to Action Groups (ItAGs) are completed for this academic year.

  • NYCoRE screens the film Granito de Arena at the UFT Center

    • April 2006

  • NYCoRE's Coalition Against The Criminalization of Youth (CACY) presents a workshop at the Threat n Youth Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University

  • NYCoRE presents at the American Education Research Association (AERA) conference on An Unnatural Disaster.

  • NYCoRE meets with members of T4SJ, Rethinking Schools, Education not Incarceration, amongst others at the New School in San Francisco.

  • NYCoRE releases No Human is Illegal! - ¡Ningún Ser Humano es Ilegal!: A Resource Guide for Educators on Immigration