Comments on: New mayoral appointees join the Panel for Educational Policy

By: Diana Rodriguez

Diana Rodriguez — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:07:00 +0000

As a reply to JustWondering ..PEP members are unpaid, but are usually city employees, whose jobs or groups get funded by the city, so basically he appoints someone who will agree with him or get fired one way or another.

-Diana Rodriguez

By: Diana Rodriguez

Diana Rodriguez — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:44:00 +0000

How lovely, three new puppets. Well well well SAU and I have some researching to do.

-Diana Rodriguez

By: 123

123 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:28:00 +0000

this is racist.

By: Kabump

Kabump — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:12:00 +0000

Because she’s Asian?

By: BLAH...blah..blah

BLAH...blah..blah — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 05:09:00 +0000

Jeanette Moy…is Michelle Rhee’s sister? Looks like it to me! I’m sure they are twin puppets! Good luck to the 3 new poodles….

By: I noticed that...

I noticed that... — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:38:00 +0000

The PEP members get a nominal stipend, but the biggest payoff is being the Mayor’s PEP Puppets.

By: Justwondering

Justwondering — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:48:00 +0000

Are PEP members paid or unpaid positions?

By: Mr. Flerporillo

Mr. Flerporillo — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:24:00 +0000

I don’t think the Board of Correction is actually part of the Department of Corrections. It’s a separate authority that sets standards for the treatment of prisoners, monitors the prisons’ compliance with those standards, and deals with grievances filed by prisoners.

That said, this does seem really goofy. If you wanted to give the impression that the appointee-slots on the PEP were rubber-stamp positions, I can think of few better ways to do it than by filling them with people with no connection to education.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:47:00 +0000

You meant to write “three new puppets” right?

By: Pogue

Pogue — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:33:00 +0000

PEP interview…

Bloomberg – “How good are you at pretending to listen to people?”

PEPPER (nodding) – ‘What was that?”

Bloomberg – “Congratulations, you’re hired.”

By: mayors puppets

mayors puppets — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:50:00 +0000

The three stooges, speak no evil ,see no evil, hear no evil. Is this even a story.

By: I noticed that...

I noticed that... — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:30:00 +0000

So these three new PEP members have been trained to agree with everything the chancellor says at the meetings instead of thinking on their own. It is easier to replace the leaving PEP members with tape recorders where the chancellor’s presses the buttons and each one will say “I agree with the closures”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:28:00 +0000

The PEP is purely for show. An excuse to say, yes, voices are heard, when in fact they are systematically dismissed.

By: Turnaround Teacher

Turnaround Teacher — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:02:00 +0000

REALLY BLOOMBERG!?! Two people from The Department of Corrections…Yes, let us continue to treat students like criminals. Maybe as their first order of business they can increase stop and frisk in schools. After all, there is a huge number of minority males in the public schools, especially in those “bad” schools. Therefore they must be criminals.