Stefan Pryor expands his team of charter school advocates
As if Connecticut’s Alliance School Districts (the 30 poorest school districts in the state) weren’t having enough problems, Stefan Pryor has managed to pour even more salt into the wounds that are dragging down public education in Connecticut. Over at the State Department of Education, Stefan Pryor got rid of Connecticut’s experienced Leaders in Residence […]The post Stefan Pryor expands his team
Would the Captain please return to the bridge immediately!
You certainly can’t say that Governor Malloy is preoccupied with the minutia of running the state of Connecticut. In fact, it is probably more accurate to say that it appears that he finds the day-to-day administrative duties of serving as Connecticut’s Chief Executive Officer boring, annoying or, at the very least, a waste of his […]The post Would the Captain please return to the bridge immediate
Update on the effort to destroy the Clark Elementary School in Hartford
In a story entitled, “Hartford Officials Explain Charter School Choice,” the Hartford Courant’s Vanessa de la Torre explained that “Superintendent Christina Kishimoto has recommended Clark as the future site of the charter network’s second K-8 elementary school in Hartford, a proposal that has left some Clark parents stunned.” A Hartford Board of Education sub-committee meet […]The post Update on
10-29-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Sarah Darer Littman among renowned authors to call out Obama on failure of corporate education reform lawsSarah Darer Littman, a fellow public education advocate, blogger and regular commentator here at Wait,What? is also an award-winning author of books for young people. Last week she and a number of other leading authors and illustrators wrote a powerful letter to President Obama abo