Nov. 2, 2010 - The Republican Gambit for Impeachment

They gathered together in a lumber yard. No suit jackets or ties...
Sleeves rolled up – as if any of them had ever done an honest day’s work!
Thus the Republicans presented their Pledge to America.

Cutting taxes, reducing spending, stopping Health Care Reform etc.

Nothing too radical. Nothing to get upset about…

However, the Pledge does not reveal their real Plan.

The real goal for Republicans on
Tuesday November 2, 2010
is to get
Subpoena Power

So they can destroy the Obama presidency!!!

JOBSGATE Revisited:
All they need is a majority in the House, and b o o m those subpoenas will start flying!

Rep. Michele Bachmann has said that subpoenaing and investigating the Obama administration is "all we should do" if Republicans gain control of Congress!!!

(Of course, these are the same Republicans who are so controlled by special interests that they just stopped the House from being able to issue any subpoenas to BP. Now, their friends at BP will never have to testify under oath about their role in the oil spill)

However, Rahm Emanuel, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, and other White House aides will be subpoenaed after the election.

The Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have sent a letter to Attorney General Holder asking him to name a special prosecutor to investigate. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), senior Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has suggested subpoenas if the Justice Department does not start a criminal investigation of the White House.
UPDATE: Republican leaders have suddenly grown quiet on the issue prior to Election Day.

However, once they have power in the House there will be calls to subpoena Emanuel, Messina et al.
Were federal crimes committed?
What did Obama know, and when did he know it?
Is this what Obama meant when he said he was going to “create jobs”?

Then - the Republicans can start deep-sea fishing over WH policies:
Has Emanuel, fearing subpoenas to the Obama White House staff (as did Ruff and Mikva in the Clinton era), re-instituted this "no notes" policy at the Obama White House in his role as White House Chief of Staff? WHY?
Has a "no notes" policy been discussed with Obama White House Counsel Robert Bauer &/or Greg Craig? WHY?

WHY? WHY NOT???

The goal is to use the House subpoena powers in order to tie up Obama and stop tax reform. Does not matter if anything ever comes of these “investigations”! Just stop reform.

After Election Day things will get MUCH dirtier.
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REMEMBER:Impeachment is a political trial and not a criminal trial.

In 1970, Gerald R. Ford, the then majority leader of the House of Representatives, wrote the following: “An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.“
Click here to see Gerald Ford’s complete remarks on impeachment.
NOTE: To impeach a president, there is no need for the public to cite any specific legal crime.
“It’s time to impeach Obama for high crimes against U.S.” by Joe Kovac of World Net Daily
“Obama Must be Impeached: He’s Either Incompetent, or Purposely Failing” by the Canada Free Press
“President’s socialist takeover must be stopped” by Jeffery T. Kuhner of the Washington Times
"The Case for Impeachment" by Thomas Tancredo for The Washington Times

Let Me Explain

I am posting two videos today. They provide the best explanation of my charges about corruption within the New York City school system.
I wish to make it clear that the difficulties I have encountered in trying to get these charges investigated stem from corruption in the middle management level of city government. People in the Chancellor’s Office, the Corporation Counsel, District 75’s Central Office and other agencies have helped protect the individual who assaulted the students and me. They also worked overtime to prevent any and all inquiries into the subsequent cover-ups.
Chancellor Klein had promised a thorough investigation into the brutality I and the students experienced. An inquiry was indeed started. However, just as clear evidence of substantial wrongdoing was established, people on the chancellor’s staff quietly put an end to the investigation.
An unfortunate outcome of this manipulation was that the chancellor thought that nothing had been established concerning my allegations. As a result Chancellor Klein was put in the embarrassing position of promoting the person at the center of this inquiry to the post of Deputy Superintendent of District 75 in spite of all the unanswered questions into his trustworthiness.

The first is an introduction into the scandal:
Such Sheninigans !
The second provides some of the necessary documentation of my charges:
Hibernians and Corruption in City Government</

There is lots of documentation to be found on this site. I will be willing to direct any reader to the specific places where an item is documented.

I will also be glad to answer any questions you might have.

So leave a comment or a question and I will get back to you.

Also, people have asked that I detail the nature of my assaults and the brain injuries I suffered. I have tried to discuss it on camera, but find it much too strong and overwhelming for me to discuss in a professional manner at this time.
Fortunately, my late partner, Al, put together a PowerPoint presentation using my medical records.

What Happened to Larry Hayes, by Al Cashdollar

He finished it shortly before he died.

When he relized the danger I was wandering around the city lost in the dementia brought on by the TBI - Traumatic Brain Injury, he gave up full-time work to take care of me.
He went through bankrupcy because of me and the stress of setback after setback brought on coronary problems, then diabetes, and eventually death. He dropped dead trying to dress me one morning.

Larry Hayes Introduction to a Scandal - VIDEO

This Video tells about the cover-ups and scandal:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xansx6_larry-hayes-introduction

DOCUMENTATION can be found on this site:

How to reach the Mayor and the Chancellor

For either one just dial 311 or 212-NEW-YORK outside of the city
or write:
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
City Hall
New York, NY 10007
E-MAIL:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html

Chancellor Klein can also be reached at(718) 935-2000
or write:
Chancellor Klein
Tweed Courthouse
52 Chambers Street
New York, NY 10007
Email;
http://schools.nyc.gov/ContactDOE/ChancellorMessage.htm



It is heartbreaking watching what Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor are going through trying to reform our dysfunctional school system. Looking into the cover up and the corruption would be the best place to start.

AFFIDAVATE in Support of my Charges

My brother, John, asked to see some of the documents I make reference to in my writing. With my TBI my communication is often elliptical - I skip over relevant information.

So here is a sample of the letter I have sent to the mayor, chancellor and other officials:

I am filing this complaint against two city employees, Kevin McCormack of the New York Department of Education and Dudley Thompson of the New York Corporation Counsel.

These men conspired to defraud me on or before June 4, 2003.

My former principal, Mr. McCormack took the witness stand and gave false testimony, presented fraudulent documents and admitted not knowing the first thing about being a principal.

The testimony was so absurd it is clear that it was never vetted by the Department of Education as required. He was a Supervising Principal and knew that all testimony had to be “cleared by headquarters” Back when he was a school principal he always told employees under him to go down to the General Counsel’s Office before even going for a deposition.

It is also clear that Mr. Thompson, never notified the Chancellor’s General Counsel, Michael Best. Mr. Best even stated that there was no testimony that day by anyone at the Department of Education; he knows Mr. Thompson and Mr. Thompson knows all testimony has to be okayed the DOE’s legal staff. In fact, Mr. Thompson always notifies him personally!

How could either Mr. Thompson or Mr. McCormack go ahead and skip over this vital step and think they could get away with it?

As I outline in my enclosed affidavit, they had to feel confident that they were free to keep this testimony secret, because they knew the other one was also keeping quiet. They relied on the other’s secrecy, and this constitutes a conspiracy.

I had also filed complaints about the judge in the case, who permitted this testimony among other missteps. A few months ago the Committee on Judicial Conduct looked into my allegations but found that my former attorneys did not want to criticize a sitting judge.

However, the Chief Investigator, Roger Schwarz, told me that what happened between the city’s attorney and that principal constituted a conspiracy. He told me to report it to the DA because the Statute of Limitations on Conspiracy to Commit Fraud is very long.

After repeated letters to the DA’s Office they finally referred me to your office.

Please know that besides the DA I have tried every route I could find to .bring this cover-up into the light of day.

Betsy Gotbaum cornered the Chancellor at a public event and told him about this principal’s bizarre testimony. Chancellor Klein personally promised me an investigation and he did his best to see that there was one. He sent off a stern letter to Michael Best, the General Counsel to the Chancellor, and asked why there had been no investigation of such outrageous behavior. He ordered him to start one.

Still nothing happened for several months. Finally a new attorney started working at the office, Ms.Courtney Jackson-Chasen. They dumped the case on her. She interviewed me at length on the telephone. I sent her piles of confidential medical records and psychological reports concerning my injury. She acquainted herself with the appropriate rules, regulations and the New York State Education Laws. Progress was being made at last!

However, once her superiors in the Chancellor’s General Counsel’s Office found out that Ms. Jackson-Chasen was starting to ask embarrassing questions Mr. Best quickly took the investigation away from her.

So, while I am asking your office to investigate these two individuals. You might also ask Mr. Best what made him shut down that investigation. You might also ask Richard Condon’s Office why no one was interested in investigating my allegations of corruption, but chose instead to forward them to people who do not investigate such matters.

The reason an investigation is important at this time is that if you can find the people who had these two men act in consort you will expose the systematic corruption in School District 75. It was set up as the “Chancellor’s District” to keep it free from the politics in community control. Instead people like Kevin McCormack get almost automatic promotions and are appointed to posts over better qualified candidates.

Kevin McCormack was totally inappropriate for the Manhattan Occupational Center. Several times I had to tell him not to ask teachers how retarded they thought a student was right in front of the students.

At the time I was assaulted I had already reported him for misappropriating funds meant for the students to refurbish his office. I was also pressing him about other missing money. I had complained about my assailant brutalizing his young students. I expect those complaints to go to right to the state.

Instead that teacher goes after me. He stalked me. Then he publicly harassed me. He even had his students yell insults at me. And the principal does nothing. Then this guy jumps me from behind, plummets me about the classroom, and the principal does nothing. Kevin McCormack has a pile of grievances from where he failed to report other assaults, why not this one?

This teacher is emboldened with what he got away with. After all he jumped me from behind and plummeted around the room before I could get to my feet, and the principal covered it up for him. Now this teacher, crazed by the use of illegal steroids, feels free to attack me again in front of students, this principal covers it up

I am left with Traumatic Brain Injury, tendons that have to be stapled back on my bones, fractured vertebrae and chronic pain for the rest of my life, it was a just a minor incident. No need to report anything. We sat around and laughed it off, he says in court! Kevin McCormack is rid of me and the questions I was asking, and ready for his next promotion.

The committee to choose a new principal for our school met with the administrators at the District 75 Office. They were told they had to select Mr. McCormack. They objected because he had never worked with a mentally retarded population. They were told that he was only going to be at the school a few years and then he’d be moving up to the a job at the district office and that would be good for the school!

For too long corrupt politicians, such as Mario Biaggi, have had their say in the running of District 75. I think it is time that the best qualified people get into the positions of power. The 21st Century is too late a time for Tammany Hall to be still running things in New York!

Here is a copy of the affidavit which accompanies each of these letters:

Affidavit
in support of the charges against
Kevin McCormack of the New York Department of Education
and
Dudley Thompson of the Corporation Counsel, City of New York

Copy of the signed and sworn document sent to your office May 3, 2009

On or before June 4,2003 Mr. Kevin McCormack entered into an agreement, either spoken or tacit, with Mr. Dudley Thompson to defraud the Supreme Court of New York State, the jury seated at this trial, and Mr. Lawrence Hayes.

Both knew that they were responsible to notify Mr. McCormack’s employer the New York Department of Education (DOE) of Mr. McCormack’s pending testimony, yet each failed to notify the New York Department of Education as required. This took some form of coordination.

Each had great experience in court appearances by employees of the Department of Education. Dudley Thompson had represented the DOE many times. Each and every time an employee was to testify he made sure that the DOE knew about the upcoming court date and that all these employees went down to the Chancellor’s General Counsel’s Office to have the testimony and the evidence to be presented vetted by the DOE’s lawyers.

When the Chancellor’s chief attorney, Mr. Michael Best, was told that Mr. McCormack had testified at this trial he was baffled. He checked the date: “There was no testimony by anyone at the DOE that day. Dudley Thompson always makes it a point to notify me personally beforehand. There was no testimony the date you gave me. There was no trial.”

Kevin McCormack definitely knew that he was required to notify the Chancellor’s General Counsel’s Office. He had testified in court many times and knew what was required. As principal he had sent many other employees under him down to the General Counsel’s Office before they were to testify.

When he testified Mr. McCormack was no longer a school principal; he had been appointed Supervising Principal. Expertise in all the regulations and routines a principal must know was a necessary job-requirement. It was his job to make sure that the new principals under his supervision new and followed such regulations and routines.

Each knew he had the responsibility to notify the General Counsel’s Office and did not. Each knew that the other was also required to notify that office. The DOE wanted to be sure everything went smoothly for each court appearance by every one of its employees.

The attorney representing the City could not risk not notifying the General Counsel’s Office if he were not absolutely sure the other person who was required to notify them had not done so.

The man representing the DOE also could not have risked his job by not notifying them he was to appear in court, unless he knew the other person who was required to notify them had not done so.

Thus, they worked in tandem. 1.

Why was such cooperation necessary? Both Mr. McCormack and Mr. Thompson knew that Kevin McCormack’s testimony would never pass examination by the General Counsel’s Office. It would get them both in trouble.

No one, for example, would ever authorize Kevin McCormack to state that he was not familiar with the Chancellor’s Regulations on how to report an assault in a school in 1996. After all, the chancellor, Raymond Cortines, had just been ousted in 1995 for not requiring all principals to strictly follow these rules and regulations.

Also, anyone at the DOE would know that copies of these regulations were regularly distributed and discussed at the meetings of principals and of teachers each year – for decades.

Further, given the excessive number of grievances brought against Mr. McCormack based for failing to report many other assaults as required by these regulations made it impossible to swear that he “was not familiar with them.”

Would anybody at the DOE let him present such bogus evidence such as a letter of reprimand he claimed to be from the official file of the Mr. Hayes’ assailant? That person was no longer in that school when the letter was written on June 11, 1996.. They would also have seen that it was never signed by the assailant and could not legally be placed in that official file without his signature.

Also they would have certainly asked Mr. McCormack why there were no witness statements. There were two assaults both in front of staff members and the second in front of a room of terrified emotionally disturbed young girls. A handwritten witness statement from each witness is required by law.

They would also stop him from presenting into evidence the letter he propertied to be an actual witness statement. It was typed by someone and signed by a Mr. Ayalew. But, it does not qualify as a witness statement. Mullah Ayalew is an Ethiopian immigrant who had little command of written language; he’d have difficulty even reading this statement let alone writing it.

Because of all the prior frauds pulled off by administrators over the years by creating phony “witness statements” and badgering staff into signing them, the law requires that witnesses in schools write out these statements in their own hands. No one at the DOE would even let Mr. McCormack bring such a bogus document near a courtroom.

Also, the people at the DOE would want the reports I wrote out after each attack. Where are they? Most never made it into the court!

Also, looking at the reports that did survive they would have to ask Kevin McCormack why these reports were never forwarded to the General Counsel’s Office. It would have led to an investigation of Kevin McCormack’s high-handed disregard for the duties of a principal, and would make it impossible to let him give such bizarre testimony and present such bogus evidence.

Thus, these two men conspired together. It is not necessary for people to formally agree for there to be an agreement, it can even be unspoken.

A criminal conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to do an unlawful act. In this case it is alleged that there was a common unlawful agreement to defraud, by the use of false documents, withheld and/or destroyed documents, false claims, and perjured testimony by Mr. Kevin McCormack, then a Supervising Principal for School District 75, and Mr. Dudley Thompson, then an attorney for the New York City Corporation Council at the Civil Trial:Lawrence Hayes vs the NY City Department of Education June 2003.




This fraud was both:
1.) Intrinsic Fraud by the use of:
Intentionally false representation
False documents
Withheld and/or destroyed documents
False claims
Perjured testimony
Obstruction of Justice
In order to deceive the Court and the jury.

2.) Extrinsic Fraud in that the use of:
Intentionally false representation
False documents
Withheld and/or destroyed documents
False claims
Perjured testimony
Obstruction of Justice
To deny the plaintive, Lawrence Hayes, the right to a full and fair hearing.

After, Mr. Dudley Thompson had finished with Kevin McCormack’s fraudulent presentation to the court; the lawyers for Mr. Hayes began to press him for a quick settlement. They felt that in spite of it self-contradictions, inconsistency and questionable “evidence” Kevin McCormack had swayed the jury.
A poll of several jurors afterwards showed that he had indeed convinced them.
Mr. Hayes was awarded a small settlement only for injuries to his left shoulder, which had been repaired by surgery.
There was no consideration of his the other damages inflicted on Mr. Hayes. He had been pinned between two large, steel doors by his assailant who threw himself against them full force with drop-kicks

He had considerably more bodily injuries such as the two compression fractures to his spine from where his back was crushed by the handle of one of the doors, the broken cervical vertebrae that had to be fused , and the chronic pain and spasms that will need round-the-clock narcotic medication for the rest of his life.

Nor was there any consideration in determining damages of the severe Traumatic Brain Injuries Mr. Hayes received. by having his head smashed from both sides again and again at different angles.

The TBI has caused blurry double-double vision (double-diplopia) , depression, difficulty concentrating or thinking, difficulty finding words or understanding the speech of others (aphasia), difficulty swallowing (dysphagia). dizziness, headache, poor coordination of movement, lightheadedness. loss of balance, difficulty walking, loss of memory, muscle stiffness and/or spasms, sleep difficulties, vertigo, and Slowness in thinking, speaking, acting, or reading.
Mr. Hayes has had to endure the loss of many long friendships because of the difficult for others to deal with his getting lost or easily confused, feeling tired all of the time, having no energy or motivation; and mood changes (feeling sad or angry for no reason). He personally feels that the stress and strain of trying to be caregiver led to the premature demise of his domestic partner of 24 years.



1. Due to the secretive nature of a conspiracy, the government need not prove a formal agreement but can demonstrate its existence through circumstantial evidence or by inference from defendants' actions.

A conspiracy to commit an offence is an inchoate offence in the sense that it is complete without the doing of any act save the act of agreeing to commit the offence: R v Rogerson (1992) 174 CLR 268, 279.

Evidence of acts following the agreement may be the only available proof that the agreement was made, but it is the agreement and not the evidence of the acts that constitutes the offence: R v Gudgeon (1995) 133 ALR 379, 389.
All participants in a conspiracy are deemed responsible for each of the acts and declarations of the others, People v. Rastelli, 37 NY2d 240, 244 (1975); Martin, Capra and Rossi, New York Evidence Handbook Section 8.3.2.4 at 720 (2d ed)

A conspiracy consists of an agreement to commit an underlying crime , coupled with an overt act committed by one of the conspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy (Penal Law Section Section 105.15, 105.20),

NB:
The Supreme Court has described the gravity of the conspiracy offense: 2.
For two or more to confederate and combine together to commit or cause to be committed a breach of the criminal laws, is an offense of the gravest character, sometimes quite outweighing, in injury to the public, the mere commission of the contemplated crime.
It involves deliberate plotting to subvert the laws, educating and preparing the conspirators for further and habitual criminal practices. And it is characterized by secrecy, rendering it difficult of detection, requiring more time for its discovery, and adding to the importance of punishing it when discovered.
2. Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640, 644 (1946) (quoting United States v. Rabinowich, 238 U.S. 78. 88 (1915)).
See also Developments, supra note 6, at 924-25 Stating that because of "antisocial potentialities" of conspiracy and the likelihood that additional substantive offenses will result, the state has strong interest in stamping out conspiracy.


AFFIDAVIT



State of New York
County of New York

Personally came before me, the undersigned Notary, the within named
Lawrence P. Hayes, who is a resident of New York County, State of
New York, and makes his/her statement and General Affidavit upon oath and affirmation of belief and personal knowledge that the following matters, facts, and things set forth are true and correct to the best of his/her knowledge:

The Current Situation

I have written both the mayor and the chancellor many times about this issue and never get a reply. Chancellor Klein had demanded a full investigation of these matters, but people in his General Counsel’s Office quickly squelched it.
The chancellor had been adamant that inquiry was needed, and I seriously doubt that he knows that it had been terminated. I had listed complaints against my former principal for destruction of official records, obstruction of justice and other crimes. This man was then appointed Deputy Superintendent of District 75 by the chancellor himself. He must have thought the investigation found this man innocent.
This man has been rewarded for his Gross Incompetence with promotion after promotion. Other more qualified candidates were passed over so this man could advance his career.
We need to root out some of the corruption that runs through

District 75

, the Department of Education and the rest of NY city government – to do this we need to find out how come both my assaults and the subsequent cover-ups have never been properly investigated.

Check out: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LARRY HAYES? They NEVER have!

I want to know how the

homophobic racist maniac

who attacked me can be returned to the classroom. I want to know how a principal could destroy official records, concoct false documents, lie under oath in order to continue this cover up, and never be questioned by any of the people charged with investigating such wrongdoing.

I am pressing my case because I feel that city investigators have bought into the worst stereotypes of gay people. And, I am making it my business to make sure this never happens again!
The people who have covered this have no regard for the mayor or the chancellor. They have no regard for the people of New York City. The fact is that they are more than willing to put the children of New York at risk.
The individual who assaulted me was removed from the school and sent to the district office. But once there, the administrators wanted him out of the district office because they were afraid of him; he was stalking women who worked there and menacing anybody who crossed his path the wrong way. They wanted this person - of whom THEY were afraid - back in the classroom working with children ASAP!
THE ORIGINAL COVER-UP
How could I be assaulted twice in front of many witnesses and it has been totally ignored??? I filed the complaints with the police. Shaking with pain I dutifully filled out and filed appropriate Incident and Accident Forms. I filed my handwritten witness statement as required by law.
No one cares to investigate why there are no other appropriate witness statements collected by the principal as required by law?

Many of these critical documents are missing, yet no one asks who took or destroyed them?

How could a principal be allowed to mislead a police investigation by using vulgar homophobic stereotypes to mislead the DA’s Office?

Kevin McCormack violated every one of the Chancellor’s Regulations on reporting school violence, yet no one has ever even questioned him on the matter? He even swore under oath that he was not familiar with these well-known regulations even though he was a Supervising Principal?

This same Supervising Principal swore he did not know what the responsibilities of a principal regarding the safety of students and staff, yet he was soon afterwards promoted to the post of Deputy Superintendent????

How could a principal be allowed to mislead a police investigation by using vulgar homophobic stereotypes and use them again and again to mislead the DA’s Office?

Has no one in New York City Government ever heard of Obstruction of Justice?

I need to also know why no one has investigated this extensive series of subsequent cover-ups.

SUBSEQUENT COVER- UPS

THE CORPORATION COUNSEL

The attorney who represented the Corporation Counsel’s Office in defense of the city HAD to be in collaboration with Kevin McCormack in order to let him present such bogus evidence and such bizarre testimony at my civil case.

Both Mr. Thompson and Mr. McCormack never notified the DOE that there was to be a court hearing as required by law.
Thus, Kevin McCormack could fabricate implausible versions of events surrounding my two gay-bashings and not have his testimony vetted by anybody at the DOE, because anybody with any knowledge of educational policy would have thrown both this principal and this lawyer right out of the building.

Has no one in New York City Government ever heard of Conspiracy to Commit Fraud?
THE GENERAL COUNSEL’S OFFICE

The Chancellor’s Chief Counsel received a sharp letter of reprimand from Chancellor Klein after Betsy Gotbaum informed the Chancellor about the continued cover-up of my gay bashing. As I have noted above, there was an investigation started... STARTED.
Once progress was made the Michael Best stopped all further investigation.
The chancellor was then led to believe that this principal had been cleared – so the chancellor was duped into appointing this guy to the post of Deputy Superintendent of District 75
Oh YES, 75 is “The Chancellor’s District” !

Why weren’t the Chancellor’s clear orders followed? Has no one in New York City Government ever heard of Insubordination and Conspiracy to Commit Fraud?

Finally the DOI

If cronyism is behind his refusal to investigate Kevin McCormack and Michael Best, he is the worst offender of the bunch. This is a complete betrayal of Trust!

The chief investigator for corruption at the Department of Education, Richard Condon, has for years treated my complaints and accusations as material for what amounts to a practical joke. Each time my letters wind up on his desk he forwards them to a department that has no jurisdiction over charges of corruption; the DOE's Office of Special Investigations mainly deals with corporal punishment and verbal abuse !

I have spoken to Mr. Hyland and others in OSI and they told me that they do NOT investigate such things as cover-ups and malfeasance by administrators.

When I asked Mr. Condon why his office repeatedly sends my complaints to an office that is not equipped to investigate it, he sent me a letter stating that his decisions were at his discretion and he does not have to explain them to others.

Has no one in New York City Government ever heard of Edward F. Stancik???


Perhaps by passing on this information both the mayor and the chancellor may see that having a real Board of Education acting as advocates for our children will enable them to have ALL the information they need to properly run the schools.

Felix Culpa

Congratulations to all our borough presidents. You have each shown Unity in the face of disaster!

Now it is time to show the mayor that the inclusion of the borough presidents in the decision process for educational reform has great benefits.

A SIMPLE 12 STEP PROGRAM
1) It is time we admitted that our school system has become unmanageable.

Each borough president’s office can serve as the troubleshooter for matters of education policy. Each borough president’s office can serve as the troubleshooter for matters of education policy.
Your offices could cite programs that are working in your boroughs hand help them be replicated throughout the system.
Initiatives such as those taken by Helen Marshall, Queens BP, which have dramatically reduced class size and reduced overcrowding in her borough will become even more effective as the other borough presidents take on this issue with unified action.

2) Strength comes from united action. However, unity is strongest when there is a diversity of opinion! And it might just restore us to sanity!
Ideas become strengthened as people of differing views see a common need and work in unity to achieve these goals.

3) While each of you might agree on general principles such as one put forward by the Brooklyn BP “Parents must have a say in their children’s education. It will not only strengthen public participation ⎯ it will ensure that we continue to improve student outcomes”!

4) There will be different assessments on implementation. There should be!
For example Marty Markowitz believes that “one of the most successful accomplishments to come out of mayoral control is school-based parent coordinators”.

5) Others while seeing the establishment of school-based parent coordinators as a step forward might still see shortcomings.An investigation by Scott Stringer, Manhattan BP, has revealed, for example, that the Department of Education has failed to provide the legally-mandated support and training for parents serving on Community Education Councils.

6) So by airing differences the Board might eventually follow Scott Stringer initiative, and exert pressure to provide the CECs with the resources and training which will allow them to do their work.


7) Despite the placement of a parent coordinator in every school, the creation of CECs, and the hiring of a Chief Family Engagement Officer, the Manhattan BP sees that there continues to be wide-spread sentiment that parental and public involvement is not a priority.

8) I would go even further and suggest that the borough presidents look for innovative ways that students can have a stronger voice in their education. I remember that there was a very effective student board that used to meet regularly with the previous chancellors to work toward the goals the students saw as a common need.


9) Each and every school in New York City could be turned into a Green House of Democracy. By learning to help make the decisions that shape the culture of a particular school, students will learn skills that will carry over to later life. As the years go by, students will learn the joys of taking on real responsibilities and working with others to achieve realistic goals.

10) They will learn the communication and networking skills they will need to advance in the 21st Century job market. They will actually be creating communities of shared values. People worry about the students “lack of respect” but what respect do we show them - if all the decisions are handed down to them from on high? How can we expect them to develop self-esteem if they are not trusted to have a say in how their schools are run.

11) And what might we learn from these students… well, we might just learn how to run a school. Recent studies show that even in elite private schools up to 70% of a teacher’s time is actually taken up with maintaining order and keeping the class under control. Truth is I have seen better ratios in some of our system’s schools – even with hard to manage populations. But we never hear of these successes, worse we never get a chance to have them replicated.

12) Believe me, the students know what works. And if they had a chance they’d help us set up systems that work. Besides the waste of so much valuable teaching time – can you remember how boring it is to have teachers who have to spend so much time trying to maintain order???

Using their social networking skills and their tech savvy today’s students could help transform schools from factories of learning to thriving communities. BUT, only if they are let in on the action!

The borough presidents must fight for greater transparency.

There may well be wide-spread agreement by the Board to follow through on the demand by Brooklyn BP, Marty Markowitz, for the creation of an independent education office that will provide non-partisan reporting and analysis of the combined $18 billion capital and operations budgets, and also provide a complete analysis of student outcomes

I would also suggest that it is NOW the time to return to an independent Department of Investigation for our school system.

For years I have tried to get Richard Condon’s office to look into a long-standing scandal in the school system. It involves corruption, patronage and outright malfeasance. But these charges keep getting sidetracked even as the betrayal of the public trust spreads.

You office could serve as a funnel for information the mayor and the chancellor need to know, but might not otherwise make it to their desks.