"The borough president didn’t send me here to be a potted plant" - Patrick Sullivan

“The folks and parents of Manhattan do not expect me to be a rubber stamp,” Mr. Sullivan told the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, who serves as the panel’s chairman. As usual, Mr. Sullivan cast the lone dissenting vote. “The borough president didn’t send me here to be a potted plant.”

Manhattan borough rep Patrick Sullivan at the "emergency" - illegal - PEP meeting called on 50 minutes notice on Friday. Read more in the NY Times.

The Panel for Educational Policy in action