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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

UPDATE: Has it come to this…? + Vallas Gets Illegal 3 year contract on 5 to 4 vote - Wait, What?

Vallas Gets Illegal 3 year contract on 5 to 4 vote - Wait, What?:



And last but not least, in Finch/Vallas land…

jonpelto at Wait, What? - 13 minutes ago
Categories: - Bridgeport - Mayor Bill Finch - Paul Vallas Speaking of $100,000 After helping Mayor Finch and five of the six Democrats on the Bridgeport Board of Education push through an illegal 3 year contract for Paul Vallas on a vote of 5 to 4, Joshua Thompson, Finch’s “education point person” continues to have a biography up on a national website calling himself; Deputy [...] *(Read more...)*

And while cutting essential services, Malloy gives $100,000 to a Stamford Brewery

jonpelto at Wait, What? - 13 minutes ago
Categories: - Budget Cuts - Corporate Welfare - Malloy Tags: Budget cutsCorporate WelfareMalloy In a tribute to modern American politics, while Sunday’s newspaper featured the article by the father of the 28-year-old intellectually disabled daughter who wrote, “Amid Stark State Cuts, A Father’s Plea: Who Will Care for Katie?”; the Monday paper featured a photo-op of Governor Dannel Malloy in his hometown of Stamford celebrating a grant for [...] *(Read more...)*

Has it come to this…?

jonpelto at Wait, What? - 13 minutes ago
Categories: - Budget Cuts - Human Services - Malloy - State Budget - Taxes Tags: Budget cutsGeneral AssemblyHuman ServicesMalloyState BudgetTaxes Over the weekend, there was a heart-wrenching commentary piece in the Hartford Courant that was written by the father of a 28-year-old intellectually disabled daughter. His daughter’s name is Katie and he wrote, “She lives at home with my wife, Donna and me. She is the love of our lives and we embrace the gifts [...] *(Read more...)*

Vallas Gets Illegal 3 year contract on 5 to 4 vote

jonpelto at Wait, What? - 4 hours ago
Categories: - Bridgeport - Education Reform - Malloy - Mayor Bill Finch - Paul Vallas - Stefan Pryor Tags: BridgeportEducation ReformMalloyMayor Bill FinchPaul VallasStefan Pryor The Bridgeport Board of Education, with Mayor Bill Finch, Faux “Deputy Mayor for Education” Joshua Thompson, Finch’s Chief of Staff Adam Wood and Pryor’s chief of Staff Adam Goldbarb in attendance, voted 5 to 4 to make Paul Vallas Bridgeport’s Superintendent of Schools, instead of Acting Superintendent, and give him a three-year contract. Last legislative [...] *(Read more...)*

Bridgeport Board of Education votes 5-4 for illegal contract for Paul Vallas

jonpelto at Wait, What? - 11 hours ago
Categories: - Bridgeport - Malloy - Mayor Bill Finch - Paul Vallas - Stefan Pryor Tags: BridgeportMalloyMayor Bill FinchPaul VallasStefan Pryor Full report in the coming days, but with Mayor Finch, his faux Deputy Mayor for Education, his chief of staff and Commissioner Pryor’s chief of staff looking on, the Bridgeport Board of Education voted for an illegal contract that not only backs Commissioner Pryor into a corner but leaves Vallas twisting in the wind. It [...] *(Read more...)*

It gets worse….

jonpelto at Wait, What? - 20 hours ago
Categories: - Achievement First/ConnCAN - Bridgeport - Charter Schools - Education Reform - Ethics - Malloy - Mayor Bill Finch - Paul Vallas - Stefan Pryor Tags: Achievement FirstBridgeportCharter SchoolsEthicsMalloyPaul VallasStefan Pryor One of the votes in favor of extending Paul Vallas’ contract as Superintendent of Bridgeport Schools tonight will certainly be Democrat Reverend Kenneth Moales, Jr. Unlike the spectacular “It Gets Better Project” which communicates to youth around the world that it gets better, and seeks to create and inspir... more »


Vallas Gets Illegal 3 year contract on 5 to 4 vote