Thursday, August 23, 2007

DOE spokesperson, earning her keep!

Check out this entry from the NY Press. Apparently Julia Levy of the DOE press office emailed her colleagues at 8:37 AM on Saturday morning, urging them to vote in the NY1 snap poll on Klein’s performance.

From: Levy Julia
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 8:37 AM
To: REDACTED
Subject: NY1 grading the chancellor

Hi all,NY1 is asking NYers what grade they'd give Joel for his five-year tenure as schools chancellor. If you're interested in voting, please visit http://www.ny1.com/ny1/Polls/index.jsp?pollactivequestionintid=2905https://mail.nycboe.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ny1.com/ny1/Polls/index.jsp?pollactivequestionintid=2905>; . (Feel free to pass this along to your teams.)Also, you have another chance to grade the chancellor -- this time on edwize, the UFT's blog. Please visit http://www.edwize.org/ <https://mail.nycboe.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.edwize.org/>; to vote. Please share this with your colleagues and friends.Julia

As the NY Press writes, “One way to make sure your boss triumphs in an online poll is to alert the employees that they should go vote for the boss.”

It’s nice to know the former NY Sun reporter is working overtime, earning her (as of 2006) $120,000 salary!

For the Chancellor’s final grade in the NY1 poll, click here.

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