A powerful and haunting report from a former Capital Prep teacher
Note: This incredible article was posted earlier today on fellow education blogger EduShyster’s site: ‘Did You Grow Up Around Black People?’ My year working for “America’s Most Trusted Educator” By Ebony Murphy-Root Dr. Steve Perry @DrStevePerry The only way to lose a fight is to stop fighting. All this did was piss me off. It’s […]The post A powerful and haunting report from a former Capital P
NEWS FLASH: Is Perry mocking Hartford Mayor and School Board Chair in Capital Prep Flyer or revealing secret strategy?
Last week the Hartford Board of Education rejected the secret one year Sheff v. O’Neill Settlement Agreement amid concerns that it was an inappropriate, and potentially even illegal, attempt to allow Steve Perry to set up his own company and then hand control of both Capital Prep and SAND elementary school over that private entity. […]The post NEWS FLASH: Is Perry mocking Hartford Mayor and School
Bridgeport: Where “truth” is sometimes fiction
Paul Vallas likes to brag that he “balanced” Bridgeport’s school budget during the two years he ran Bridgeport’s schools. Mayor Bill Finch likes to brag that he is making a huge “investment” in Bridgeport schools. Every time Paul Vallas speaks about his budget success he fails to mention that he didn’t actually balance last year’s Bridgeport […]The post Bridgeport: Where “truth” is sometimes ficti
Wait, What? – A weekend of political news and commentary
Connecticut and American Politics: Will Rogers, the “unequal distribution of the money” and the elections of 2014 and 2016 Meanwhile…..John Rowland? No Dannel Malloy Malloy continues to cash in on Education Reform initiative (corrected version) Bridgeport: Mayor Bill Finch, Paul Vallas: UPDATED: Secret Deal for Malloy Political ally turns Education Funding Formula into a […]The post Wait, What?
A public school parent calls Capital Prep’s Steve Perry to account
Over the last few days, a series of posts on Steve Perry, the principal of Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut has generated more than 15,000 visits to Wait, What? and more than 200 comments (a record). The discussion about Perry went well beyond his infamous, bullying, sexist twitter rants to an exploration and […]The post A public school parent calls Capital Prep’s Steve P
11-24-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Will Rogers, the “unequal distribution of the money” and the elections of 2014 and 2016“I was born on Nov. 4, which is Election Day. . . . My birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.” – Will Rogers There was a time in our nation’s history when one out of three Americans followed the writings of a […]The post Will Rogers, the “unequa