NYC Mayor de Blasio's Latino Appointments
No Latino Mayoral Appointments to the Panel for Educational Priorities?
The NiLP Network on Latino Issues (January 23, 2014)
On January 22nd, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his appointment of the first 5 members of the 8 he designates to the 13-member Panel for Educational Priorities (PEP) at the NYC Department of Education. The Panel for Educational Policy consists of 13 appointed members and the Chancellor. Each borough president appoints one member and the mayor appoints the remaining eight. The Chancellor serves as an ex-officio non-voting member. The PEP is responsible for electing a chairperson from among the voting members.
With 40 percent of the NYC public school students being Latino, they represent the largest segment of the school population and yet Mayor de Blasio did not include a single Latino among his first appointments to the Panel. During the Bloomberg Administration, none of the borough presidents appointed a Latino to this body. Will the appointment of the remaining 3 Mayoral designees and the 5 by the borough presidents result in the continued underrepresentation of Latinos in this body?
With the appointment fof the 5 PEP members, Mayor de Blasio has made a total of 43 publicly-known appointments to his Administration, 8 of which are Latino (18.6 percent).
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