UPDATE: Rejection of “education reform” proposal in Bridgeport will have repercussions - Wait, What?

Rejection of “education reform” proposal in Bridgeport will have repercussions - Wait, What?:

You know those “just run government like a business” guys…

by jonpelto

One of the larger individual donors to Residents for a Better Bridgeport, the Political Action Committee behind Mayor Bill Finch’s anti-democracy initiative that went down to defeat in Bridgeport yesterday, is a hedge fund manager named Zachary Zeitlin, a Westport resident who is or was a partner with Silver Point Capital in Greenwich.

In the “small world department,” Zachary Zeitlin is also one of Governor Malloy’s appointees to the Connecticut Board of Regents.  Those are the individuals that didn’t realize that only they had the authority to set compensation for the employees at the 

Rejection of “education reform” proposal in Bridgeport will have repercussions

by jonpelto

The defeat of Mayor Finch’s charter revision proposal that would have done away with an elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by himself will have significant repercussions within Bridgeport and across the State of Connecticut.

While the move toward mayoral control of boards of education has been far more limited than the Finch operation claimed during the recent campaign, the national “education reformers” have made it a high priority and have had a string of successes.  Bridgeport was widely expected to be their next big win.

But the “education reformers” were wall0pped yesterday as the voters of Bridgeport rejected their mayor and the City’s incumbent democratic apparatus.

The defeat was especially relevant since this year Connecticut found itself as one of the