Poison PEP - Chancellor Banks - Not Even a Competent Bullshitter, Rally Against Budget cuts - If You can call it that

I watched the recent PEP last week for hours - on and off - the Panel for Educational Policy -- PEP - which I am renaming PECS - Panel for Educational Charter Schools. They want to starve the beast to prove public schools except for a few don't work.

Goal to starve the beast - the public scbool system -- to drive the move for vouchers and other options. And it will work. Imagine a totally fragmentized and Balcanized non-union system. Once those pesky UFT salaries are out of the way, the charters won't have to compete on salary -- or even on competentce of teachers --- just drag them off the street for the schools in poor neighborhoods.

Banks made a few appearances and they were almost embarassing. He can't even lie effectively and uses phony charm to try to get over.

MORE came up big at the PEP --maybe 30 people spoke -- no one from the UFT leadership - I repeat - totally absent from a major meeting dealing with massive cuts. 

I posted the Ronnie Almonte speech and newsletter -- Ronnie gets what the political agenda is about: Starve the beast -- and show how government doesn't work.  There was a rally of sorts where MORE had more people showed than Unity. I mean this is a union of 197,000 people. Getting a few hundred out makes the union look weak. Sometimes its better to stay home.

Leonie is on the case on the budget cuts.  (And on Class size -- big event for Skinny Awards Monday night.)

Class Size Matters

$1.1 billion in unspent funds by DOE for FY 2020 and FY 2021 – making cuts to schools even more outrageous - See below; a budget presentation by the DOE dated June 21, showing unspent allocations to schools and districts of $1.1 billion from FY 2020 and FY 2021, w... 

 

BTW - UFT endorsed Hochul -- who obviously won big -- has not yet signed the class size bill --- And her buddy Adams doesn't want her to. 

Join the June 23 People’s Panel for Educational Policy!- Make your voices heard

Shades of the Bloomberg era - it's time to go back to the PEP - except they got an emergency reprieve from having to face the public in person through the July meeting -- so this is zoom only. 

I have little doubt that Adams etc are privatizers of public schools. Cut the budget deeply and create demand for the charter school cap to be lifted. The class size law? Hochul hasn't signed it yet. Adams doesn't want it. Watch the primary outcome to get a clue to see if she signs it.

Norm Scott

 

Calling all Parents, Students, Educators, and School Staff

Make your voices heard – In Unity There is Strength!

Join the June 23 People’s Panel for Educational Policy!

Budget Cuts? Layoffs? School Closings? Class size? Charter School Takeovers? High Stakes Testing?  Homeless Families?

Defend Our NYC Public School Communities

Whose Schools?  Our Schools!

Hosted by the Coalition to End Mayoral Control https://www.nycmayoralcontrolnot.org/

Thursday June 23, 2022.  6:00 -7:30 PM

Register for the zoom call below.   If you wish to speak sign up  when the meeting begins

You are invited to a Zoom meeting. 

When: Jun 23, 2022 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us04web.zoom.us/meeting/register/upIpdumrrjwpGtRwUNpm6YT8jecxeg06wVfS

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

 

Videos, April 25: Aixa, Lisa, Norm, Leonie, Simon, Parent and Student

I did a quick mix of two sections of the PEP with people we know plus a parent and student fighting to save their school, which the PEP voted to close a few hours later.

https://vimeo.com/270083192




https://vimeo.com/268563399

Video and Commentary: PEP April 25, 2018 Students Protest Closing Their School, PEP closes it anyway

Students at Crotona Academy: If you close our school we will drop out.
PEP closed the school anyway.

The April 25 PEP was another doozy - Lisa North got home at 2AM. I couldn't stand it anymore and left at around 10:30. Earlier today I posted a piece about speaking to a class at Leon Goldstein about our 2011 film, The Inconvenient Truth About Waiting for Superman. The film opened with students singing: DOE Don't Care About Us.

Clearly. Whether under Bloomberg or de Blasio.

I made this short segment for that class to see that 7 years later nothing has changed. I have 2 and a half hours of video and this is just 5 minutes - only a slice of what happened.

Below the video is a great account of the meeting from the always awesome Leonie Haimson.

https://vimeo.com/267416001

 

Failure of Mayoral control: De Blasio starts yesterday by slandering teachers and the day ends with the closure of yet more schools by his hand-picked panel, despite heartbreaking student pleas 

Tell the New Chancellor Your Thoughts at the PEP, Wed. April 25-- sign upto speak at 5:30

Here's you chance to talk to the chancellor. Or sing to him.

I am going with a few people and will tape. There are a bunch of charter co-locos on the agenda. Anyone can get 2 minutes which is more than you get elsewhere.

Murry Bergtraum HS. 5:30 sign-up to speak, meeting starts at 6 but often starts about 6:15-6:30. They must stay there till everyone who wants to gets to speak. They should do that at a DA. 

This came in from Leonie:

Subject: PEP meeting w. new Chancellor tomorrow night re PS 25

Thanks to all who have helped with the lawsuit to save PS 25. 

 

Please if you can, come and speak at the PEP meeting tomorrow night – the first time that the Chancellor Carranza will be presiding.  Sebastian and I plan to speak as well – but we also have to address our class size lawsuit and school overcrowding.

 

 

Panel Meeting
April 25, 2018 - 6:00 P.M.
Murry Bergtraum High School
411 Pearl St.
New York, NY 10007

 

 

All Chancellor Carranza has to do is say no, and the school will not close. It’s certainly worth trying to make our case directly to him.

 

Come at 5:30 PM to sign up to speak; it’s a convenient location right behind City Hall and  near many subway stops. More info below:

 

If you want some talking points there are many available here:

https://dianeravitch.net/2018/03/27/leonie-haimson-why-is-the-nyc-department-of-education-closing-a-successful-school-in-bed-stuy/

 

Thanks,

 

Leonie Haimson

Executive Director
Class Size Matters

Video: Voices of Community Education Council District 3 (Upper West Side) Address Total Lack of Community Engagement and DOE Complicity at PEP

Lack of professionalism and common courtesy on part of the DOE.
Everything was done to minimize community input and family engagement.
DOE hasn't earned our trust.

Going to a PEP where parents, teachers, students and community people show up to talk about being ignored, being ignored by yet another arrogant Farina superintendent, being lied to repeatedly and being used as a prop to give the impression the DOE admin is concerned about them is like watching a horror show in an endless loop.

See the video of 4 CEC 3 members at the Jan. PEP calling out the DOE and Farina administration under de Blasio and if you want to dig further read their astounding letter - all 11 pages detailing the ills of the DOE that will never be fixed even though these parents honestly offer their services. Ending mayoral control is the only answer. At least at the local school boards we knew who to yell at.

CEC 3 letter to DOE -- see full pdf: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/a806f4_f9d8950a31e947cea7c12df1d888da84.pdf



https://vimeo.com/252994409January 22, 2018

Video: Where We Speak at the December PEP - and Farina Responds

You might classify this as an example of "if a tree fell in the forest and no one was there." But the 13 members of the PEP, Farina and her hangers on at the DOE were there so let them hear a dose of reality every once in a while.

A bunch of MOREs and friends spoke to the Dec. 20 Panel for Educational Policy --Here they are in order: Aixa, Lisa, Norm,

Gloria, Jane. Others from MORE were there too but didn't speak.
Other than some parents from the Harbor school at Governor's Island who have been fighting for space promised to them when the school moved there years ago, we were pretty much the only ones there.

We met as a committee of MORE that is addressing the closing of schools issue at Panera before the meeting --- we feel at least try to raise certain issues even if the effort proves fruitless. We also think the PEP is a good space to get in some public speaking practice -- learn to try to say something cogent in a 2 minute slot. It also allows you to test out a way to present your ideas. It is a leaning experience.

I went over my time - I had so much to say and boiling it all down can be tough. I dealt with the ways principals and teachers at closing schools are dealt with - I bet they are given jobs while ATRs are tossed into the pool. Aixa put the ATR issue on the table in her own unique manner -- that Farina responded means she hit a chord. Note who relaxed Aixa is - how she doesn't make a speech but just sort of chats. Very effective even to an empty auditorium.
https://vimeo.com/249951542

Video: UPDATED - MORE and Teacher Diversity Committee at Panel for Educational Policy Nov 25, 2014

Teaching has often been a way for poor people from the city to join the ranks of the middle class. I'm an example of this.... Pearson, King, Tisch and Cuomo have been dismantling this tradition.... It is the gentrification of the teaching force....As someone who has been a dean, chapter leader and mentor, I see the difference between the way gentrifiers deal with NYC kids and native NYers deal with NYC kids. In short, we need many many more native NYers in the classroom, especially New Yorkers of color.
.....Assailed Teacher, blogger

Last night a batch of MOREistas were at the PEP to argue a number of points. Eterno covered ATRs. I touched on bully principals and a discontinued guidance counselor from Staten Island made a powerful statement (videos to follow). Sean Ahern and Megan Moskop joined others from the Teacher Diversity Committee to press for a more diverse and balanced teaching staff. Video below and at the MORE you tube site: http://youtu.be/g1_RDCkWLUM

Sean has been fighting this battle for a decade and is finally getting noticed by the DOE and the UFT - but outcomes do count.
I was going to speak about the lack of balance in terms of the racial composition of teaching staffs around the city. We find a lot of teachers of color in the poorest areas of the city - Harlem, Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy - the overwhelming majority in some schools and overwhelmingly white staffs in other areas.

This is often unfair to the teachers of color who are more likely to be teaching in the tougher schools.

Bloomberg got rid of a provision that allowed teachers of color to transfer based on race in 2005. You know the drill - principals should not be forced to take a teacher they don't want - even if the real issue is the decision might be based on racial bias - which by the way, can also work both ways - a white teacher had a tough time getting a job in the 70s in certain schools. But the racial bias is way more likely to work the other way. All power to the principals must be curbed and maybe this is the way to begin. It is time for the DOE to take a look at the racial imbalance in schools around the city.

I included an excerpt from Assailed Teacher in the video. Read the entire quote in my post yesterday: Impact on Teacher Diversity: Teacher Certifications Decline As NYS Uses Tougher Exams

A PEP Lovefest; I Compare Eva Moskowitz to Global Warming

Last night I attended my first PEP meeting under the new administration and it was quite a lovefest directed at Carmen Farina, even from critics. Even my usually sour presentation was tempered. The meeting was sparsely attended and there were critics there, but even they thanked Farina for at the very least, the stand to defend the autistic and other special ed kids at the Mickey Mantle school from Eva's outrageous demands they be kicked out for her 194 "scholars." That the De Blasio administration couldn't make this point clearer - even with their own ads, is sad. At the very least the UFT should have done some ads, but then they would be subject to attacks over their own co-located charter that was resisted by parents and teachers they displaced.

Throughout the evening Carmen brought such charm and humor to the table for the first time in 13 years people felt good about the administration even when they disagreed on all the other co-locos Farina allowed. People from Mickey Mantle school made some wonderful speeches that should be put in an ad attacking the shit out of Eva.

I have a batch of videos, including one from Francesco Portelos. However, the event was for the first time livestreamed and will be available for viewing in a day or 2. I will try to save you the trouble of parsing through it by highlighting.

Naturally, I'll start with my speech where I compare Eva to global warming. When I ask what might have happened if Carmen closed the schools like Eva did, she said, laughing, "I did close them. For a snow day."I stayed within my 2 minutes - though they were very liberal in allowing more time - and had a lot more to say. Like if the millions spend on Eva ads were used to buy them a building. Or their phony stats. Maybe I'll do a follow-up in April. My belief is even though we are a spec, getting the info on the web serves as some minor counter to the Moskowitz machine. And one of my Wave columns this week also deals with the issue.




Busy day today with the DA and the District 14 forum. I'll add more videos to this post as I get to them and then repost this with the updates.

Advice for de Blasio: ASAP - Make Patrick Sullivan Your First PEP Appointment

...here is a chance for Patrick Sullivan to bring his considerable talents in service of NYC parents, students and teachers by working with the majority at long last. What a shame to deny Patrick this opportunity. ... EdNotesOnline

Scott Stringer also deserves a lot of thanks for sticking by Patrick and letting him vote his conscience even after being pressured by Bloomberg’s minions to fire him.... Leonie Haimson

Stringer's support for Patrick is why I voted for him. If you attended any PEP meetings the only member to consistently get applause from the audience was Patrick. W

When people took over the August 2010 PEP meeting, Patrick came off the stage to stand with the people while the rest of the PEPs scurried for cover. Here is a video with Patrick speaking from the floor at around 4:30.




Also See: The anti-chancellor: Scott Stringer’s education-board appointee objects to Dennis Walcott, again and again

Patrick was an immense supporter of our film (see tab at the top of the blog) and we used some important footage of him.

Patrick Sullivan resigned from the PEP once Scott Stringer's term of Manhattan Borough President expired. That does not mean he is not interested in the PEP. Under BloomKleinBlackCott Patrick had to play the role of obstructionist to try to stop the destruction and undermining of the public school system.

But here is a chance for Patrick to bring his considerable talents in the service of NYC parents, students and teachers by working with the majority at long last. What a shame to deny Patrick this opportunity.

However, I do not think Patrick should have to go begging to new Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. Let's see where she stands on education as revealed by her PEP appointee. de Blasio should show support for the work Patrick did by appointing him to one of the 8 positions (out of 13) he controls.

Here is the link to the ednotes piece when Patrick announced his resignation: Patrick Sullivan resigns from NYC Board of Educati...

And here's Leonie Haimson's supportive piece and call for people to leave comments on the blog she and Patrick run supporting Patrick.

Happy New Year to all.

I just returned from a trip last night, but if you’d like to add your thanks and appreciation to Patrick for an incredible job on the PEP for the last 6 ½ yrs please put your thanks on the blog here, where he posted his resignation letter to Stringer:

http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2013/12/sullivan-thanks-scott-stringer-for.html

Scott Stringer also deserves a lot of thanks for sticking by Patrick and letting him vote his conscience even after being pressured by Bloomberg’s minions to fire him.

As I commented on the blog, if Patrick’s advice had been listened to, we would have been spared hundreds of damaging co-locations and school closures, and millions of dollars down the drain in wasteful and sometimes outright corrupt contracts.

Also, you might mention if you think de Blasio should appoint him to the new and hopefully independent NYC Board of Ed to be a voice for parents.

Thanks,

Leonie Haimson

NOTE- Another thing de Blasio should do immediately is to get rid of Bloomberg's PEP nomenclature -- really should have been PERPS---  and replace it with______ - let's have a contest.

See these links on Patrick:

1. Ed Notes Online: Why Scott Stringer? Patrick Sullivan on the PEP ...

   ednotesonline.blogspot.com/.../why-scott-stringer-patrick-sullivan-on.ht...‎

   Aug 30, 2013 - Patrick Sullivan on the PEP and Beat Evil Eva Mosowitz. It was not small feat for Scott Stringer to give us the gift of Patrick Sullivan on the PEP, ...
2. 
   

   Patrick Sullivan commands the stage at the PEP | NYC Public ...

   thediariesofalawstudent.blogspot.com › ... › Patrick Sullivan‎

   Check out this video of Manhattan member of the Panel for Educational Policy Patrick Sullivan, fearless and brilliant, at the PEP December 20 meeting in the ...
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   Patrick Sullivan/James Liebman Joust at the PEP - YouTube

   ► 7:59► 7:59

   www.youtube.com/watch?v=11q3uZtePCE

   Nov 23, 2007 - Uploaded by norscot2

   PEP Manhatan appointee Patrick Sullivan and Tweed Chief Accountability Officer James Liebman joust at ...
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   Patrick Sullivan at the PEP Dec 09.mov - YouTube

   ► 8:39► 8:39

   www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_UnhQ0ALc

   Dec 21, 2009 - Uploaded by norscot2

   The NYC so-called rubber stamp Board of Education is known as the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP). Most ...
5. 
   

   Patrick Sullivan commands the stage at the PEP - NYC Public ...

   nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/.../patrick-sullivan-commands-stag...‎

   Dec 22, 2009 - Check out this video of Manhattan member of the Panel for Educational Policy Patrick Sullivan, fearless and brilliant, at the PEP December 20 ...
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   Manhattan Borough Pres Scott Stringer and PEP Rep Patrick ...

   iceuftblog.blogspot.com/.../manhattan-borough-pres-scott-stringer.html‎

   Aug 31, 2011 - Manhattan Borough Pres Scott Stringer and PEP Rep Patrick Sullivan at Tuesday's Press Conference on Verizon Contract.

Pre-PEP Funeral for Closing Schools Pics

Our own Evil Eva dressed appropriately for Halloween with old nemesis Noah Gotbaum. Thanks to Pat Dobosz for the pics. A roll-call was read listing each of the over 160 schools that have been murdered by Bloomberg's hench-people at Tweed. After this people at the PEP buried the pathetic puppets of the PEP -- only 2 months left. Not that I trust de Blasio to do much given the charter lobby has such access to people who have access.

MOREistas gather

Evil and Fred Smith

My costume? Dressed as a bald guy.

Tish James @ the PEP: We Want Our Schools Back

Not up to the impact of James' galvanizing speech at the Oct. 15 PEP where she laid bare the DOE policy of inequality. Here she does some posturing and I hated her use of the charter standard use of "scholars" -- is she coopting them? But she rises to the occasion at the end with her call of "We want our schools back."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwb_mCehTY

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PEP Video: Community Says "No MORE Charters"

Panel for Educational Policy October 15, 2013:
NYCDOE votes to cram 23 co-locations and charters into existing schools despite large protests, mostly unreported by the press which gave extensive coverage when charters closed schools for half a day and told parents they had to attend.

Members of MORE help lead protest at PEP as parents, students, teachers and entire communities around the city say NO to privately run charter schools that invade public school space. The NYC ed press of course ignores community outrage while promoting every vestige of charter promotion. Included in this video is me speaking on the issue. I handed the camera to someone I won't name who got a good shot of the ceiling as I began to speak but then did a superb job.

My major point was that charters were allowed to close for a politically driven protest while public schools being invaded by these charters had to hold their protests/rallies at their schools after school. Their numbers were way above the charter numbers, with over a thousand people attending the Roy Mann rally, another event the NYC ed press ignored. Yes Virginia, the press was not reporting those numbers of anti-charter people. In fact the press did not report this outpouring of

anti-charter co-loco feelings from a packed house at this PEP. They assume that the UFT was behind the chants when nothing can be further from the truth. Does this person on the right, who you can see in the video while the chant was going on look happy?

I also pointed to the Moskowitz hired camera and sound people who she pays to attend every meeting at a reputed cost of over 75K a year. And she object so paying rent? Again, the press ignores the enormous expenditures by Success. Eva manipulated other charters into taking action to try to protect her revenue stream. We all know di Blasio's arrow is aimed directly at her. And she does too.

Lots of videos to come from that Oct 15 PEP -- hope I can get them done before the next one on Oct. 30. And today I'm heading over to the PS 196 rally and hearing to tape.

http://youtu.be/wX5-I1U-G0I

PEP Notes - Tish James Rocks the House

You have 77 days and the count-down has begun.... When you treat special needs children differently and when you discipline them and expel them that's separate and unequal... I urge you in anticipation of litigation to save all your emails (especially related to communication with Eva Moskowitz)... That is why I was elected (along with Bill de Blasio) ... that is our mandate... we gotta get back 12 years of this administration failing our children.... Tish James

While the fawning ed press gushes over charters, the PEP was packed with the real choice of the people: no charter co-locations,  anti Success Charter and Eva Moskowitz and schools representing thousands of people. But a more comprehensive report later.

I have over 2 hours of footage and will be putting pieces up. First up is Tish James who put a line in the sand about the end of the Bloomberg administration.

There were a lot of politicians who spoke - this was strong and emotional. Not the full speech but edited to make it more concise.

http://youtu.be/17qXw6E7ZnU



A few stills

Videos of Pep 4/26/12 on the closure of 24 schools

Here is some video from Thursday's PEP where 24 more schools were closed. I did not stay for the school co-location vote as it was quite late by the time the puppets voted to close all 24 schools with no consideration to the public outcry.

This video was made on behalf of GEM (Grassroots Education Movement). Apologies for any errors or mis-spellings. They are in reverse order of the evening's proceedings.

Pat Dobosz

I was out of town so I missed it. Thanks to Pat for doing all this work.

20120426103725 PEP 4/26/12

Role call vote on the resolution by Dmytro Fedkowskyj. Votes on the 24 school closures: puppets and heroes

20120426093128 PEP 4/26/12

Manhattan representative to the PEP, Mark Sternberg and Shael Polakow-Suransky

20120426090516 PEP 4/26/12

Queens representative on the PEP, Dmytro Fedkowskyj speaks about his resolution and asks questions of Mark Sternberg, DOE Deputy Chancellor Division of Operations

20120426090205 PEP 4/26/12

Queens representative to the PEP , Dmytro Fedkowskyj: Presents a resolution to withdraw the proposals for turnaround/closure and place a moratorium on the transformation model.

20120426084623 PEP 4/26/12

A member on the Citywide Council for High Schools: The discussion needs to be on how we are going to support our schools...not on how we are going to close them.

[20120426083240 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utrJkWJHmYk
CPE (Coalition for Public Education) member, Akinlabi McCall calls for a People's Board of Education.

[20120426073202 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBkXSOMLl5Q

Parent of an Automotive High School student speaking against the closure of the school

[20120426070528 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxY1T68MguY

Student on behalf of Student Activists United: We're the 13%. Watch the DOE goon standing over her.

[20120426064949 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOGJj6IDs8Y
City Council Member, Leticia James speaks against the co-location of a fifth school at the 117 K campus.

[20120426064244 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDoodFnkJVE
Assemblywoman, Catherine Nolan: ...a shortsighted and damaging process...

[20120426064014 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pRri-nVAt0
CEC 3 member, Noah Gotbaum: The whole process is a lie.

[20120426063803 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UtWROE-KI8

Graduate of Newtown High School: You're decreasing the moral of the students.

[20120426063234 PEP 4/28/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qt3xDw-EjE
UFT Vice President, Leo Casey: This process is a sham. It's illegitimate and it has no honor.

[20120426063003 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtt9nE5CjJU
FDR High School Teacher, Meghan Behrent: It is the Departmenrt of Education that is failing...Panel...perpetuating crimes against children on a daily basis...

[20120426062608 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3K_Bpy04DE
Lehman HS Teacher:It is unfortunate that there are only four reasonable people on that panel right now...

[20120426062353 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCp2B8R68Ng
Graduate of Automotive High School and retired NYC worker: You can't and have not given the administration of these schools the backing they need.

[20120426061103 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkagV_xmxRc
Margerie Stamberg: We need to organize by understanding who the enemy is...

[20120426061034 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIXCnbbnTz0
We are prepping a new generation to be a lost generation.

[20120426055929 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA0V-LeaL9w
CEC 14 member, Elaine Manatu: I'm here on the victimization of the kids from MS 126 and on the closure of Automotive HS.

[20120426055653 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnBR1yu-iNI
IS 166 Gershwin closure and the SES program starting late

[20120426055147 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H4Y1yXStQE
Paola De Kock, President of the Citywide Council of High Schools: ...shows how arbitrary and downright cruel the turnaround plan is...there is no plan, there is a model.

[20120426054918 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tey0-6wuD38
President of CDEC 3: Opposes the co-location of Harlem Success Charter School at PS 149 and the mistreatment of special needs children by Harlem Success.

[20120426054718 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH1WpH9CAnw
CDEC 30 Representative: Nowhere in the Federal turnaround model is closure mentioned.

[20120426054421 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTVufJk4EjQ
CEC member/Parent speaks about how there is no proof that the turnaround model works.

[20120426054143 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYN2zynMclA
Representative for NY State Senator Shirley Huntley: Speaks about how the principal at August Martin High School was mis-treated and how education at the school was interrupted.-

[20120426053618 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOGg8L-uDW0
Councilman Jumaane Williams: Many of you are just doing his (the Mayor's) bidding...I don't know how you sleep at night.

[20120426053323 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHS868nTzco
The community has not been engaged about the proposal to move The Renaissance School from M99 to PS 155.

[20120426052912 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSaDnERf04g
Queens elected official and parent: Calls on the PEP to save the other 24 schools. We cannot afford to turn our backs now...you will be using a form of union busting.

[20120426052559 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCYZPlqVC5U
Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz: Stop demonizing our teachers and public educators.

[20120426050427 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPHjya9l_NI
Schools not jails! The puppets are introduced.

[20120426050028 PEP 4/26/12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kNy3hH1O-A

Whose schools? Our schools!

PEP Notes From March 21

We had tickets to a play last night so I didn't make it to the PEP which was focused on charter co-locations. Every co-loco turns more people into opponents of ed deform so in that cloud is a silver lining.

It took me a long time to realize the value of Twitter as a basic news source. So before and after the show I was able to follow the PEP and OWS stuff and the Million hoodie march for Trayvon Martin at Unions Square. (Interesting that on the way home around 9PM there was an announcement that the Q train was skipping Union Square due to a police investigation). See the video with Brian Jones posted on the Coalition for Public Education blog. Also see Jose Vilson and Miss Eyre at NYCEducator on this issue. (I'll do a separate post later).

Gotham tweeted on the PEP all night -- they are here:

On PEP agenda: Co-locations and a “restart”-related contract

And Patrick Sullivan did some too. Here are Patrick's and a few more under the #PEP321 hash tag.

Patrick J. Sullivan ‏ @PSulliv

Asked DOE general counsel to review law, see if MCS charter in violation of law requiring charters to serve Eng lang learners #PEP321

1h Patrick J. Sullivan ‏ @PSulliv

Worst of #PEP321 mayoral bloc replicates Manh Charter School despite admitted concerns that the school serves no ELLs on Lower East Side.

2h Patrick J. Sullivan ‏ @PSulliv

RT @SaveSatellite #PEP321 Patrick sez you are taking advantage of public schools with these #colocation s

2h Patrick J. Sullivan ‏ @PSulliv

RT @gothamschools 5 police surround teacher shouting over #PEP321 discussions. She refuses to leave; they back off http://pic.twitter.com/veUoCygy

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2h Patrick J. Sullivan ‏ @PSulliv

RT @SaveSatellite #PEP321 why are we moving 2 success academies in one building so there will be 6 elementary schools in one building?

3h Patrick J. Sullivan ‏ @PSulliv

Great coverage of last night's Panel for Educational Policy by @SaveSatellite and @gothamschools using hashtag #PEP321

11h Patrick J. Sullivan ‏ @PSulliv

Highlight of #PEP321 Spring on 24th Street http://yfrog.com/ocazbxhj

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11h Patrick J. Sullivan ‏ @PSulliv

Contracts for CUNY fail at #PEP due to recusals of mayoral bloc appointees with CUNY ties.