The complex issue of stealing public education…Just ask Malloy’s nominee for the State Board of Education - Wait, What?

The complex issue of stealing public education…Just ask Malloy’s nominee for the State Board of Education - Wait, What?:

Bridgeport Board of Education…and the vote is, once again, five to four

by jonpelto

Following the sudden announcement that Jacqueline Kelleher is resigning as the chair of the Bridgeport Board of Education (although she will be staying on as member of the Board), the five members of the Board of Education are expected, tonight, to elect Kenneth Moales Jr. to serve as the new Chairman of the Board.

Kenneth H. Moales, Jr. has served as vice chair of the Board and chairman of the Board’s Finance Committee.  Moales also has the dubious honor of being one of Paul Vallas’ strongest supporters.

Moales, who serves as the pastor of Bridgeport’s Prayer Tabernacle Church of Love, Inc. and the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit is also a self-proclaimed “sought after national speaker.”

Controversy has long surrounded Moales’ tenure on the Bridgeport Board of Education.  

The complex issue of stealing public education…Just ask Malloy’s nominee for the State Board of Education

by jonpelto

A woman is accused of stealing the cost of her child’s public education.

No, it’s not the story of Tonya McDowell, the Bridgeport woman who was arrested and pled guilty to first-degree larceny in 2011 for stealing $15,686 (the cost of her son’s education) from the Norwalk School District.

In that case, McDowell’s son was kicked out of Norwalk’s Brookside Elementary School in December 2010, when the City of Norwalk realized that McDowell didn’t live in Norwalk.  McDowell, who was homeless at the time, was using her babysitter’s Norwalk address to enroll her son in the local Norwalk school.  In addition to being arrested and convicted of a crime, McDowell’s babysitter was evicted from her public housing for being an accomplice to a crime.

No, this is a different case.

One that relates much more directly to education policy in Connecticut, because the