China News Service, August 16. According to the US "World Daily" report, a large number of Chinese students in the 25th and 26th school districts of Queens, New York, USA, have recently reported that Asian-American rights protection issues have been boycotted.
The Chinese-American members of the School District Council (CEC) reminded that there are still vacancies, and called on Chinese and Asians to apply and speak out for education issues.
Situ Bi, chairman of the 26th school district committee, introduced that the 26th school district has more than 50% of the Asian population, but only four of the current 11 school committees are Chinese.
Supporting the two resolutions proposed by State Senator Liu Chunyi to include the history of Asian-Pacific Americans in public school curricula and opposing crimes against Asians, all members voted against it, and in the July regular meeting, there were also people who left a message via Zoom when Chinese parents spoke, "Return". Come to your country", showing that there are still residents in the school district who hate Asians or have prejudice against Asians, calling on Chinese and Asian parents to apply for vacant seats and speak out on behalf of Asians.
Situ Bi said that each school committee has two seats nominated by the district mayor. Among the two vacant seats, one should apply to the Municipal Education Bureau, and then submit it to the school committee to vote for a decision. Candidate parents must have children. For school English language learners (ELL) to apply.
The other seat is also applied to the Municipal Education Bureau first, and then nominated by the district mayor.
The mayor usually selects businesses with community influence, community representatives, heads of non-profit organizations, etc.
Situ Bi said that the 25th school district, including Flushing, also has two vacancies. At present, the school committee in the district has only eight members, including two Chinese, one Korean, and one Indian. Five Asians and Three non-Asian members.
Since at least six votes are required to pass a resolution, although all five Asians voted in favor of the resolutions related to crimes against Asians, gifted classes and high school admissions, they were not passed by other members who voted against it. More Asian-American parents joined, and both seats were nominated by the district mayor.
Stuart said he grew up in Queens, attended Stuyvesant High School, and is currently working as an engineer in the federal government.
During the epidemic, there were frequent incidents of Qiu Ya. He worried that his two children in elementary and junior high schools in Queens would face similar things, so he decided to run for the school committee last year to help more Asians.
(Zheng Yiyan)