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EPP Membership Criteria
Membership Application

CRITERIA FOR EPP MEMBERSHIP

Organizational members of the Educational Priorities Panel must fulfill the following conditions and agree to the following responsibilities:

1. Coalitions cannot be members. An exception to this rule is associations of parents representing parents at different schools.
2. The agency must be city wide or borough wide in scope.
3. The primary focus of the member agency's education agenda must be public education.
4. Each member agency must be committed to the Panel's fundamental principle that of the dollars available for education, the greatest amount possible should go to the classroom and direct services to pupils.
5. The member agency must review and be committed to existing policies agreed to by Panel members and set forth in the memo on policies.
6. The member must be committed to the consensus process and agree to follow the procedures laid out in the memo on consensus.
7. Member agencies must identify a representative who must make a concerted effort to attend biweekly meetings and participate in committee work. The agency representative should not be a current employee of the Board of Education.
8. The Executive Committee will have responsibility for reviewing applications for membership, making recommendations to the full Panel, and reviewing the status of current members if circumstances change.
9. The member agency must be a not-for-profit organization.

In addition the Panel prefers:

1. Agencies that have had a public education agenda for at least two years.
2. Agencies that represent diverse educational constituencies and/or broaden the constituencies already represented on the Panel.
3. Agencies that do not have contracts with the Board of Education. If an agency does have a contract with the Board, the representative cannot vote or block consensus on an issue that affects the contract.
4. Agencies whose principals are not current employees of the Board of Education

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If your organization would like to become a member of EPP, please print and complete the form below. Please return the application to the address listed at the bottom of the form.

EDUCATIONAL PRIORITIES PANEL
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
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Full Name of Agency: _____________________________________

Address: _________________________________ Zip __________

Day Phone: ___________________________

Executive Director/ President (Chief Operating Officer): ___________

Contact Person: __________________Day Phone _____________

The following questions will help us get to know your agency and your work in education. Please add any brochures or publications that you think would be useful to us. Feel free to use more space as needed. Please attach a list of members of your board of directors with organizational or business affiliations listed and a copy of your current bylaws.

1. Give us a brief description of your agency, including general goals, general activities, issues of concern, membership, constituency, clients, and types of funding:

2. When was your organization founded?_______________

3. What is the geographic scope of your agency? ___ City wide ___Borough wide ___ Other. Please explain:

4. Describe your agency's process for determining policy positions, including the approximate time needed for reviewing and adopting a policy (i.e., review at monthly meetings, discretion of executive director, etc.):

5. List all of your activities and positions that relate to education (services provided, research projects, policy positions, etc.):

6. Do any members of the Board of Directors or does the organization receive funding from the New York City Board of Education? Please list the names and officer titles of members of the Board of Directors receiving these funds and specify whether employee, consultant, or grantee. If the organization receives these funds, specify the reason(s) and the amount(s):

7. Does your education agenda include work with non-public schools? If yes, please describe:

8. What benefits does your agency hope to receive as a member of the Panel?

9. What can your agency contribute to the Panel?

10. What expertise or focus can your agency bring to the Panel?:

11. Have the members of your Board of Directors read the Panel's policy positions? Is there general agreement with these positions? Describe briefly any comments or differing opinions:

12. Panel members are asked to make a voluntary annual contribution to the Panel to help defray the expenses of the Chairperson and the mailing costs. What level of support, if any, will your organization contribute each year? ___$50 ___$100 ___$260 ___$500 ___$1,000___ Other: $___

13. Who will attend the weekly Panel meetings? How has this person been chosen and what is this representative's organizational position (i.e., board member, volunteer, staff)?

Thank you for filling out this questionnaire. Your application for membership will be reviewed by the Panel at a regularly scheduled coalition meeting, after first having been reviewed by the Executive Committee. After a Panel vote to accept a new organization for membership, EPP staff will notify the organization and request a letter from the organization signed by the highest official formally accepting membership and designating the organizational representative who will regularly attend meetings and vote on behalf of the organization.

This form should be sent to: Noreen Connell/ Executive Director/ Educational Priorities Panel/ 225 Broadway/ 39th Floor/ New York, NY 10007. If there are any questions regarding this application, please call the EPP office at (212) 964-7347.

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