More on Commissioner Pryor’s new communications person…only making $82k
by jonpelto
Last Wednesday, a Wait, What? blog post began with the reminder that, “Today’s double barreled lesson; (1) There is always room for one more Director of Communications on the ship of state, even in the face of a billion dollar deficit, and (2) there are simply no qualified PR people in Connecticut.”
The piece reported that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, was bringing in yet another out-of-state person to help him run Connecticut’s Department of Education.
This time it was a new public relations person, the third he has had since becoming Commissioner about a year ago.
On Friday night, the CT Mirror got word that Donnelly’s salary will be a paltry $82,000, not
Three more MUST read commentary pieces on Connecticut’s “Education Reformers”
Three more MUST read commentary pieces on Connecticut’s “Education Reformers”
by jonpelto
As Governor Malloy’s PR operation continues pumping out the education reform rhetoric, we can be confident that should he see re-election, he’ll be running on the most anti-public education record of any governor in living memory. His “Education Reform” package was certainly the most anti-teacher, anti-union bill introduced by any Democratic governor in the nation.
Earlier this year we heard Malloy claim, “I don’t mind teaching to the test as long as test scores go up,” while proudly uttering the falsehood that teachers need only show up for four years to get tenure.
Since then he has pushed an agenda that makes greater use of inappropriate standardized testing and has continued to champion a teacher evaluation system that relies on the outcome of those tests, despite the fact that there is absolutely no evidence
