Shino Tanikawa: The deep flaws in the CEC selection process
The below email is from Shino Tanikawa, a member of the Community Education Council in District 2 to Dennis Walcott. Shino points out the deep flaws in the selection process for Community Education Councils, which ended last week, despite the postponement that resulted from a threatened lawsuit:
From: Shino Tanikawa shinot@verizon.net
To: Chancellor Walcott DMWalcott@schools.nyc.gov
Cc: Ojeda Hall
Sent: Sun, June 5, 2011 9:39:38 AM
Subject: CEC Election
Dear Chancellor Walcott,
Thank you for the decision to postpone the CEC election. I appreciate your willingness to work with parents. Unfortunately, the postponement did not result in any significant improvements. Many of my concerns before the postponement remained unresolved. So that you can run a better election next time, I would like to share some of the remaining problems that require resolution and carefully planning.
· Many parents did not seem to know the advisory voting was repeated and that they had to vote again even if they voted during the first round.
· The same confusion over how to cast advisory votes remained after the postponement. Many parents never received the flier with the login information or they did not hold onto it after they cast their first votes, not realizing the advisory voting was being repeated (please note many elementary