Educators for Cynthia
Educators for Cynthia is a group of teachers, professors, administrators, and education leaders dedicated to protecting New York's schools and electing a real public education advocate as governor.
Add your name to join Educators for Cynthia to team up with Cynthia's campaign and help us advocate for real school reform that puts our children first, prioritizes teaching and learning, not testing, and provides a quality public education system from pre-K through higher education.
Already, dozens of New York educators have joined to rally behind Cynthia’s demand to repeal the Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR), including education historian Diane Ravitch and other teachers, principals, school board members, superintendents, SUNY and CUNY professors, and former NYSUT statewide officers.
- Marla Kilfoyle - Oceanside School District Teacher
- Cheryl Smith - New Rochelle City School District Teacher
- Angelo Musto - Oceanside School District Teacher
- Mindy Rosier - Special Ed Teacher, New York City
- Kirsten Ostrofsky - Copiague School District Teacher
- Lorri Gumanow - Special Educator (retired) - NYC Department of Education and CUNY
- Eric Olson - Brunswick School District High School Social Studies Teacher
- Terry Kalb - Eastern Suffolk BOCES Retired Special Education Teacher
- Luz Christina Ramirez Mooney - Kingston City Schools Teacher
- Michael Flanagan - NYC DOE Teacher, UFT Chapter Leader
- Arthur H. Camins - Science Educator
- Rosemary Pearce - Library Media Specialist at Bayport-Blue Point UFSD
- Heather Leo - Special Education Teacher
- Lauren Sullivan - Great Neck Public Schools English Teacher
- Stephanie Eberhard-Holgerson - Bayport-Blue Point Schools English Teacher
- Daniel Pearce - Industrial Arts/Technology teacher (Retired) at Greenport School District
- Chris Sullivan - PE/Health Teacher NYC DOE
- Katie Lapham - English as a New Language teacher
- Jeff Bernstein - Great Neck Public Schools Social Studies Teacher
- Sean Meade - Bayport Blue-Point Schools Social Studies Teacher
- Martin Messner - Former Secretary-Treasurer NYSUT, Teacher Schoharie
- John Giambalvo - Social Studies Teacher
- Mike Schirtzer - Social Studies Teacher
- Gloria Brandman - Retired Special Education Teacher
- Michael Mahrer - ESL & ENL Teacher
- Patricia Dobosz - Retired Teacher
- Lisa Rudley - School Board Member at Ossining Central School District
- Susan Kang - Associate professor, political science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- Stephen Brier - CUNY Graduate Center Professor, Urban Education PhD Program
- Gerald Markowitz - John Jay College and Graduate Center, CUNY Distinguished Professor of History
- Ruth Milkman - CUNY Distinguished Professor
- Frances Fox Piven - CUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Arthur Goldstein - ESL teacher/ UFT chapter leader, Francis Lewis High School
- Stephanie Luce - CUNY Professor
- Ben Wides - Social Studies Teacher
- Sarah Bassett - PS 87 Second Grade Teacher
- Tom Shcherbenko - UFT member
- Diane Ravitch - Research Professor, New York University
- James Davis - Brooklyn College, CUNY Professor of English
- Daniel Hurewitz - Hunter College, CUNY Professor of History
- Dr. William C. Cala - Retired Superintendent of Fairport Central Schools
- Phyllis Shapiro-Cash - Retired Special Education Teacher
- Bill Brooks - Retired Teacher
- Carrie Brooks - Retired Teacher
- Sara Wottawa - Sachem School District Board of Education Trustee
- Bonnie Buckley - St. John’s University/ Long Island University Teacher of Students with Disabilities
- Danielle Flora - Islip School District Board of Education Trustee
- Dina Phillips - Middle Country School District Board of Education Trustee
- Dr. Michael Hynes - Superintendent
- Lee Cutler - Secretary Treasurer of NYSUT earlier
- Jamaal Bowman - Principal
- Katie Kleinpeter - Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association
- Beth Dimino - Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association
- Nancy Sanders - NYSUT Board of Directors
- Gowri Parameswaran - SUNY New Paltz Professor
- Glenn Geher - SUNY New Paltz Professor
- S. Ilgu Ozler - SUNY New Paltz Associate Professor
- Megan Sperry - SUNY New Paltz Assistant Professor
- Rebecca Longtin Hansen - SUNY New Paltz Assistant Professor
- Andrea F. Gatzke - SUNY New Paltz Assistant Professor
- Vanessa Plumly - SUNY New Paltz German Lecturer, Program Coordinator
- Cristopher Livecchi - PhD, Department of Geography, SUNY New Paltz
- Stephen Pampinella - SUNY New Paltz Assistant Professor
- Susan Gargan - Bay Shore School District Board of Ed - VP
- Melissa Gates - Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School District Board of Education Trustee
- Pamela Verity - Commack School District School Board Trustee
- Michael Herlan - Social Studies Teacher Marion School District
- Russ Byer - Math Teacher Penfield CSD
- Elizabeth Brown - 3rd grade teacher Penfield CSD
