@kwamebrowndc asks if students who failed school are able to get SYEP. The answer is yes,
— Mark Segraves (@SegravesWTOP) April 25, 2012
Kwame Brown on failing students getting city-funded summer jobs: "I just don't think we should reward kids for failing."
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) April 25, 2012
Next year students who don't successfully pass their classes will most likely not be able to participate in SYEP.
— Mark Segraves (@SegravesWTOP) April 25, 2012
Lisa Mallory says Summer Youth Employment Program may implement a minimum GPA for 2013, as David Catania is suggesting.
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) April 25, 2012
Catania wants to consider a minimum GPA to qualify for SYEP. "how meaningful is your participation if you're flunking out of school?"
— Mark Segraves (@SegravesWTOP) April 25, 2012
Catania on some SYEP participants: "We bribe you not to cause trouble."
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) April 25, 2012
Gray indicates he's open to toughening rules for SYEP participation, especially with a focus on grades.
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) April 25, 2012
Catania says M. Brown view that Summer Youth Employment Program is a chance for failing students "is a dream land."
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) April 25, 2012
CM M Brown says "shouldn't give up" on kids who aren't doing well in school. Catania says Brown's in a "dreamland"
— Mark Segraves (@SegravesWTOP) April 25, 2012
Barry: "I could hardly sit in my seat and listen to this backward thinking... this conservative thinking."
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) April 25, 2012
Barry: "What do you gain by cutting off at a grade point average?"
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) April 25, 2012
Barry to Gray and others: "You are absolutely out of touch and out of tune on how we're going to solve these problems."
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) April 25, 2012
