Malloy’s Nominee for Connecticut’s State Board of Education Makes National Blog
by jonpelto
Diane Ravitch, the leading voice of the pro-public education movement in the United States, re-posted yesterday’s Wait, What? blog on one of the controversies surrounding Governor Malloy’s nominee to the Connecticut State Board of Education.
Ravitch wrote;
“Jonathan Pelto reminds us of the national publicity about a homeless woman who was arrested and fined for the crime of enrolling her child in the Norwalk public schools when she was not a resident of that city in Connecticut.
Now Governor Dannell Malloy has nominated a woman to the state board of education
And in Bridgeport, the winner is Finch’s Campaign Treasurer, Kenneth Moales, Jr.
by jonpelto
As expected, the five members of the Bridgeport Board of Education voted last night to elect Kenneth Moales Jr. the new chairman of the board.
Moales is the well-connected insider who not only served as Mayor Bill Finch’s campaign treasurer but was appointed to the illegal Board of Education by the Malloy Administration and then won a seat on the democratically elected board as a member of the Democratic Party slate.
As a member of the Bridgeport Board of Education, Moales has been witness to developments that allowed members of his immediate family to increase their take of public funds to approximately one million dollars a year. (Moales’ mother and sister run publicly funded daycare centers that rent space from Reverend Moales’ church, which, in turn, provides his operation with more than $80,000 in rent)
Following the 5-3 vote to elect Moales as board chair, another board of education member, Sauda Baraka, introduced a motion to censure Moales for what Baraka called “insensitive, disrespectful, disparaging, racist and stereotypical” comments that Moales had made at
