Steve Perry: Tweeting while working …. or as one reader put it – Tworking…
Steve Perry’s twitter account has been a bit quieter since we shed some light on his obsessive “tworking” (or tweeting while being paid by Connecticut’s taxpayers to run Hartford’s Capital Prep Magnet School). Hartford’s Superintendent of Schools, Christina Kishimoto has been even quieter on whether she and the Hartford Board of Education will be taking […]The post Steve Perry: Tweeting while work
Wait, we spent $35,000 on what?
Consider it a tribute to Dannel Malloy’s version of American Capitalism… You’ll find this cute little “feel good” story in this week’s Hartford Business Journal. “Brewing Opportunity – Startup’s K-cup vending machine offers employers money-saving option” is an article about how an employee at the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology in East Hartford got an […]The post Wait, we spent $35,000
Vallas backs down on Bridgeport Military Academy
From the Connecticut Post: Bridgeport Military Academy has their commander back BRIDGEPORT – City school officials confirmed late Wednesday that Byron Williams, commander of the Bridgeport Military Academy was back at the new school on Wednesday. Williams was let go by Schools Superintendent Paul Vallas last week but the outcry from parents and students […]The post Vallas backs down on Bridgep
Hartford’s Clark School parents, teachers and community fight back!
The battle to fight off the “Hostile Take-Over” of Hartford’s Clark School is growing. Last week Hartford Superintendent of Schools, Christina Kishimoto, announced plans that she wants to close Hartford’s Clark School and hand the building over to Achievement First, Inc., the larger charter school management company that already has one school in Hartford but […]The post Hartford’s Clark School pa
Malloy/Democrats make mockery of Connecticut’s once prominent role in campaign finance reform
Thanks to the changes in Connecticut’s campaign finance system that were initiated and signed into law by Governor Malloy, corporate education reformers Jonathan Sackler and Mary Corson each wrote $10,000 checks to Connecticut’s Democratic Party this year. It is hardly the first time that Sackler and his wife, Corson, have ponied up for Governor Malloy. Over […]The post Malloy/Democrats make mocke
10-30-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Update on the effort to destroy the Clark Elementary School in HartfordIn 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 parent