UConn’s new $227,500 PR guy – don’t worry taxpayers – parents & students are paying…
Last week came the news, via Kathy Megan at the Hartford Courant, “The University of Connecticut has hired a new vice president of communications at an annual salary of $227,500.” Okay, so some people were upset because with 171,000 Connecticut unemployed residents, not to mention the thousands of highly trained public relations professionals who work [...]
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Keeping high school students in school and preserving school sports…Bridgeport style
For 31 years, students at Bridgeport’s Bassick High School have been participating in the high school’s indoor track program. That was until Team Vallas, under the direction of John Fabrizi, recently eliminated the program this fall.
When Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas blew into town with his $229,000 salary and his team of out-of-state consultants (most of whom worked for his private consulting company, The Vallas Group), former Bridgeport mayor John Fabrizi, whose tenure in office ended in 2007 following a drug scandal, was serving as the Director of Adult Services.
Today, Fabrizi is one of the most “powerful” players in Vallas’ “education reform” operation.
According to a recent Connecticut Post article, apparently one of Fabrizi’s newest duties is to be “in charge of helping rebuild a middle school sports program for the district.”
So, without the input of the Bridgeport Board of Education, Fabrizi eliminated the high school’s historic in-door track team and transferred the money to supplement that
Washington Post runs Pelto/Lecker School Funding Commentary piece from Hartford Courant