Parents’ ‘Soviet’ block

Board bans critics

A Brooklyn parent board blocked parents and press “not in alignment” with its extreme leftist agenda from attending its monthly public meeting this week — a brazen violation of state law.

At least a dozen people were blocked from joining Wednesday’s Zoom meeting, including a Post reporter who was apparently forbidden simply for identifying as a journalist for New York’s favorite newspaper.

“If people are not in alignment with our community agreements, they may not be allowed in this space,” Community Education Council 14 President Tajh Sutton (inset) told the 40 comrades allowed to attend.

The group took it a step further, empowering itself to boot any dissenter it deems a member of a “hate group” by tweaking its “community commitments.”

“We reserve the right to remove participants causing discord, spreading misinformation and/or affiliated with hate groups,” read the group’s new community commitments — which needed to be agreed to before registering for the meeting.

CEC 14, a DOE-supervised volunteer advisory group that covers Williamsburg and Greenpoint, recently booted Jewish parents for pro-Israel beliefs and helped organize a proPalestine school walkout.

This week, its president and vice president used the public comment time to bash District Superintendent David Cintron for proposing a mediation session to ease tensions related to the Israel-Hamas war.

Those who attended the two-hour meeting said their speech was restricted by a disabled chat and limited public comment period.

One of the few people allowed to speak was James Parra, a controversial DOE paraprofessional who has defended calling Israel a “racist” and “terrorist” state and has used the term “Zionist pig.”

‘Very concerning’

The Open Meetings Law requires that parent meetings be open to the general public and held in person, but the CEC’s meetings are conducted over Zoom.

Schools Chancellor David Banks sent CEC 14 an order stating that they must comply with the New York Open Meetings Law, according to the DOE. “Claims about actions at this week’s meeting are very concerning and will be addressed,” the department stated.

The behavior has been ripped as something out of communist China.

“It’s shameful that CEC 14 is obsessed with lying and disparaging a parent advocacy group that has helped thousands of NYC families navigate our public school system,” said Yiatin Chu, co-vice president of PLACE NYC, a group that supports merit-based education.