PEP approves 8th grade promotion plan almost unanimously

Posted by Philissa at 8:26 AM

At the Panel for Educational Policy last night, parents from the Coalition for Educational Justice did raise such a fight against the DOE's 8th grade promotion policy that the rest of the agenda had to be jettisoned. But as we all predicted, their protest had no affect. Even one of the two panel members who had threatened to vote against the policy found religion just before the meeting and voted to approve it instead. Apparently only Patrick Sullivan, the Manhattan borough president's representative on the panel, is ever allowed to vote "no." Would having its policies approved by a vote of 10-2 instead of 11-1 really undermine the DOE so much?