Your 2025 CEC Election Voting Guide

Voting is open NOW through May 13th – make your voice count!

Skip ahead to see some great candidates running in your district!

The Community and Citywide Education Council (CEC) elections are happening right now – and they’re about more than just filling seats. They’re about shaping the future of our public schools and ensuring every student, no matter their background, has the opportunity to succeed in a safe, supportive, and equitable learning environment.

This election will decide who represents you and your values in decisions that directly affect our schools – from special education and language access to school safety and inclusion. These are the people who advocate for you and your child – and we need the strongest voices at the table.

Not Sure What This Is All About? Here’s What You Need to Know:

What are CECs?
Community and Citywide Education Councils are elected bodies that give parents a real say in how New York City’s public schools are run. They influence education policy, hold town halls, review school zoning changes, and more. In short: they’re an essential part of a healthy school system – and a healthy democracy.

Why it matters:
This isn’t just about policy. It’s about people. Who we elect to our local councils will shape how schools address equity, safety, inclusion, and opportunity.

How to Vote

Deadline: May 13, 2025
Where you vote: Online, through your NYC Schools Account (NYCSA)

Step 1: Log into or set up your NYC Schools Account
You need a NYCSA to vote. If you already have one, you’re halfway there.
Log in or sign up here.

If you’re new to NYCSA, don’t worry – it’s free, secure, and gives you access to important info about your child’s education year-round.

Step 2: Find out which councils you’re eligible to vote for
Depending on your child’s grade level and needs, you might be eligible to vote in more than one council, including councils for:

• Your district (if your child is in a K–8 DOE school)
• Students receiving special education services
• English Language Learners
• High School students
• District 75 programs

Step 3: Make Your Voice Heard – and Help Others Do the Same
Once you’re logged in to your NYC Schools Account, your personalized ballot will be waiting for you. Review the candidates running in your district – many of them are parents and advocates who’ve been doing the work for years – then cast your vote and submit. Just like that, you’ve helped shape the future of your local public schools! But don’t stop there.

Share this page with your friends, your parent groups, your block, your WhatsApp chat. When more of us vote, our CECs become a true reflection of the hopes, demands, and diversity of New York City’s majority.

Local elections like these are where change begins – where communities plant the seeds of resilience, hope, equity, and justice that grow outward, from our schools to our city and beyond. In times like these, when a healthy democracy feels threatened or distant, it’s these everyday civic acts that help hold it up.

So vote and bring others in your school communities along with you. Let’s show what’s possible when families speak up, stand together, and shape the system from the inside out.

Here are some great candidates running in your district:

Scroll to your district to see a list of some great candidates, and type in your school in the search bar on the left to see if we are uplifting specific candidates for your school!

School x District	Candidates
District 1 - Manhattan
Children’s Workshop School East Village Community School School for Global Leaders NEST+m P.S. 188 The Island School University Neighborhood Middle School	Amanda Ashcraft Rodney Lee Grauven Olivares
Neighborhood School Earth School PS 184 Shuang Wen Thompkins Square Middle School P.S. 110 Florence Nightingale East Side Community School P.S. 015 Roberto Clemente PS 64 01M064 STAR Academy P.S. 63	Alejandro Epifanio Torres Jennifer Whitley (IEP) Grauven Olivares
P.S. 140 Nathan Straus P.S. 034 Franklin D. Roosevelt P.S. 142 Amalia Castro P.S. 19 Asher Levy P.S. 134 Henrietta Szold P.S. 020 Anna Silver and all other schools	Amanda Ashcraft Rodney Lee Jennifer Whitley (IEP)
District 2 - Manhattan
PS 1 Alfred E Smith PS 2 Meyer London PS 42 Benjamin Altman PS 124 Yung Wing PS 126/MAT Jacob August Riis PS 130 Hernando De Soto MS 131 Sun Yat Sen Middle School	Moline Ng-Mayz Tamuira Reid (IEP) Erin Khar
Ballet Tech/NYC PS For Dance Clinton School Facing History School (City Knoll) PS 3 Charrette School PS 59 Beekman Hill International PS 158 Bayard Taylor JHS 167 Robert F Wagner LMC Middle School MS 177 Yorkville East Middle School PS 267 East Side Elementary MS 297 75 Morton PS 527 East Side School-Social Action	Matthew Katz-bohen Tamuira Reid (IEP) Erin Khar
PS 6 Lillie D Blake PS 40 Augustus Saint-Gaudens PS 41 Greenwich Village PS 51 Elias Howe PS 89 Liberty School PS 111 Adolph S Ochs PS 151 Yorkville Com. School PS 183 Robert L Stevenson PS 198 Isador E Ida Straus PS/IS 217 Roosevelt Island IS 289 Hudson River Middle School PS 340 Sixth Avenue Elementary PS 343 Peck Slip School American Sign Lang & Eng Lower Battery Park City School Ella Baker School Institute for Collaborative Education Quest To Learn Salk School Of Science School Of The Future High School	Sarah Girner Gavin Healy (IEP) Efrat (Effie) Sternberg-urbelis (IEP)
Lab MS for Collaborative Studies PPAS PS 11 Sarah J Garnett PS 33 Chelsea Prep PS 77 Lower Lab School JHS 104 Simon Baruch MS 114 East Side Middle School PS 116 Mary Lindley Murray PS 150 PS 212 Midtown West PS 234 Independence School PS 290 Manhattan New School PS 397 Spruce Street School River School and all other schools	Leila Colbert Cody Lindquist Gloria Chew (IEP)
District 3 - Manhattan
P.S. 75 Emily Dickinson P.S. 84 Lillian Weber P.S. 87 William Sherman P.S. 145, The Bloomingdale School P.S. 166 The Richard Rodgers School of the Arts and Technology P.S. 242 - The Young Diplomats Magnet Academy Community Action School Lafayette Academy Locke School of Arts and Engineering Manhattan School for Children Riverside School for Makers and Artists West Prep Academy	Tyi Ellis Noah Odabashian Wendyliz Martinez
P.S. 9 Sarah Anderson Booker T. Washington Middle School MS54 Mott Hall II P.S. 076 A. Philip Randolph P.S. 149 Sojourner Truth P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon P.S. 180 Hugo Newman PS 241 STEM Institute of Manhattan Special Music School The Center School, M.S. 243 West End Secondary School	Monica Fester (IEP) Natalie McKinley (ELL) Felicia Reese Amos
Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School P.S. 163 Alfred E. Smith P.S. 199 Jessie Isador Straus P.S. 242 - The Young Diplomats Magnet Academy M.S. 245 The Computer School M.S. M247 Dual Language Middle School P.S. 452 School for Excellence The Anderson School and all other schools	Jessica Sleater Noah Strote Takeya Patterson (IEP)
District 4 - Manhattan	Vandana Bonilla Johanna Dominguez (ELL, IEP) Sophia Fall Lawanda Joyner (IEP) Mario Medina Kaliris Salas-Ramirez Elizabeth Soto-Cardona
District 5 - Manhattan	Ayishah Irvin (IEP) Brian Peters Damaris Rodriguez (IEP)
District 6 - Manhattan	Luis Camilo Caroline Jose Rafael Landeiro Nicole Lorenzetti
District 8 - Bronx	Crystal Rodriguez Laticia Thompson
District 9 - Bronx	Priscilla Alexander(IEP) Erika Amaxtal Maribel Gonzalez (IEP) Ruth Gutierrez (IEP/ELL) Irene Lopez Petra Morales (IEP/ELL) Ricarda Pantaleon (IEP/ELL) Maileng Payano (IEP)
District 10 - Bronx	Erika Gonzalez (IEP) Amy Ming Tsai
District 11 - Bronx	Stefannie Bonilla (D75)
District 13 - Brooklyn	Jordan Feigenbaum Allicia Gittens (IEP, D75) Amaranta Medina-Seabright Shawneke Pass Kimberly Steger
District 14 - Brooklyn	Courtney Bonilla (IEP) Carlos Cabrera Maura Conley Gianinna Hutchinson
District 15 - Brooklyn	Jonathan Davis (IEP) Elton Dodson Angelica Jadunandan Basil Kreimendahl Robert Patrick Katina Rogers (IEP) Kim Wanliss (IEP) Cara Zwerling-Moelle (IEP) Zhu Qingxia (ELL)
District 16 - Brooklyn	Candace Belle Ingrid Douglas Kimberly Dowling (IEP, D75) Tanisha Gaskin-Christie (IEP) Terrance Johnson Stephanie Sandeus (IEP)
District 17 - Brooklyn	Erika Kendall (IEP) Tiffany Melville (IEP) Ruby Miller (IEP) Michelle Morris
District 18 - Brooklyn	Anderson David Rashida Lawrence (IEP) Marsha Salabie Harty
District 19 - Brooklyn	Kristin Garcia (IEP) Kendell Jamison (IEP, D75) Amber Lewis Tion Prescott (IEP) Shakima Sealy Sanders
District 20 - Brooklyn
Academy of Talented Scholars P.S. 170 Ralph A. Fabrizio School M.S. 407 STARS of 86th The Christa McAuliffe School I.S. 187 J.H.S. 201 The Madeleine Brennan School P.S. 105 The Blythebourne P.S. 205 Clarion P.S. 204 Vince Lombardi The Fort Hamilton School Brooklyn School of Inquiry	Kelly Clancy Christina Diamond Allyson Seeman (IEP)
P.S. 69 Vincent D. Grippo School P.S. 102 The Bayview P.S. 160 William T. Sampson P.S. 176 Ovington P.S. 229 Dyker J.H.S. 259 William McKinley P.S. 264 Bay Ridge Elementary School For The Arts P.S. 503: The School of Discovery P.S. 506: The School of Journalism & Technology and all other schools	Jennifer Pazmino (IEP) Santoshi Thakuri Samantha Clarke
District 21 - Brooklyn	Jay Brown Petra Remy (IEP, D75) Esfira Shakhmurova
District 22 - Brooklyn
P.S. 119 Amersfort P.S. K134 P.S. 193 Gil Hodges P.S. 206 Joseph F Lamb P.S. 207 Elizabeth G. Leary P.S. 222 Katherine R. Snyder P.S. 236 Mill Basin P.S. 254 Dag Hammarskjold P.S. 255 Barbara Reing School J.H.S. 278 Marine Park P.S. 312 Bergen Beach P.S. K315 P.S. 889 M.S. 890	Michael Barth Bridget Kessler Cristina St juste
P.S. 052 Sheepshead Bay J.H.S. 078 Roy H. Mann P.S. 139 Alexine A. Fenty P.S. 195 Manhattan Beach P.S. 197 - The Kings Highway Academy P.S. 198 Brooklyn P.S. 217 Colonel David Marcus School J.H.S. 234 Arthur W. Cunningham	Shatisha Bryant Avi Glickstein Tahisha George (IEP)
Andries Hudde East New York Family Academy J.H.S. 014 Shell Bank P.S. 109 P.S. 194 Raoul Wallenberg P.S. 203 Floyd Bennett School P.S. 245 P.S. 251 Paerdegat P.S. 277 Gerritsen Beach P.S. 326 P.S. 361 East Flatbush Early Childhood School I. S. 381 School of Science & Technology and all other schools	Avi Glickstein Tahisha George (IEP) Cristina St juste
District 23 - Brooklyn	Melinda French (IEP) Amanda Pitts (IEP) Latisha Shaw (IEP) Jorshea Tucker L. Joy Williams
District 24 - Queens	Mansie Maikle
District 28 - Queens	Chantel Chambers Annie Cok (IEP) Quentin Mezetin (IEP, D75) Jennifer Sobers
District 30 - Queens
P.S. 17 Henry David Thoreau P.S. 69 Jackson Heights P.S. 76 William Hallet P.S. 84 Steinway P.S. 85 Judge Charles Vallone P.S. 112 Dutch Kills P.S. 127 Aerospace Science Magnet School P.S. 148 Queens P.S. 150 Queens P.S. 361Q The Woodside Community School P.S. 384 - Hunters Point Elementary Q300, The 30th Ave School	Laura Simpson Marlene Rossi (ELL) Nahounha Alexandre
Baccalaureate School for Global Education Hunters Point Community MS P.S. 070 P.S. 122 Mamie Fay I.S. 145 Joseph Pulitzer P.S. 149 Christa McAuliffe P.S. 152 Gwendoline N. Alleyne School P.S. 212 I.S. 230Q P.S. 398Q Young Women's Leadership School, Astoria	Linda Chung Whitney Toussaint
P.S. 011 Kathryn Phelan P.S./I.S. 78Q I.S. 141 The Steinway P.S. 166 Henry Gradstein IS 204 Oliver W Homes P.S. Q222 - Fire Fighter Christopher A. Santora School I.S. 227 Louis Armstrong and all other schools	Whitney Toussaint (IEP) Nadeea Saeed Shelly Xiong
Citywide Council on High Schools	Harry Feder Wanda Balines Kirsten Cole Nancy Cruz Tamara Stern Kelly Bare Cassandra Neyenesch Aide Zainos Flores
Citywide Council on Special Education	Francesca Barreiro Sarah Besson Sanayi Beckles-Canton Mark Gonsalves Maggie Sanchez Amanda Frey Karina Garcia Priscilla Santos
Citywide Council on English Language Learners	Sang Ha Chung Qing Li Erin St. Peter
Citywide Council for District 75	Masuma Akter Christi Angel Stefannie Bonilla Kimberly Dowling Allicia Gittens Johanna Gomez Yoselin Holguin Kendell Jamison Quentin Mezetin Brenida Parsons Petra Remy Tasanyia Sebro-Calderon Jennifer Stewart