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Parent activist Mercy Carabajo recounts organizing parents to press New York education officials over East Ramapo schools
Summary
Mercy Carabajo, an Ecuadorian immigrant and member of the Empowered Parents Organization, said the group formed in 2022 with support from the FARO Project and the New York Civil Liberties Union, holds bimonthly meetings, organized mobilizations and arranged a visit by the New York State Commissioner of Education to discuss concerns about East Ramapo Central School District (Spring Valley).
Mercy Carabajo, an Ecuadorian immigrant and mother of Thalia, Santiago and Joel, described her work organizing parents to press state education officials over conditions in the East Ramapo Central School District (Spring Valley). She said the group, Empowered Parents Organization, was founded in 2022 with support from the FARO Project and the New York Civil Liberties Union and meets bimonthly to identify…
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