Teacher Questions Flushing HS Principal's Reduction of Passing Grade to 55
it is the right of the principal to set the grading policy for a school. It is common practice in high schools to establish 55 as the lowest grade awarded to students. .. Qns Dist Supt Juan MendezTeacher follows chain of command to Polakow-Suransky and Qns HS Dist. Supt. Juan Mendez2nd email request: Principal James Brown's grading policy - Flushing High School to SuranskyDear Mr. Polakow-Suransk
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
10-31-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Tish James @ the PEP: We Want Our Schools BackNot 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.&qu