Will Capital Prep’s Steve Perry show up for work tomorrow
On Friday, Capital Prep’s Principal Steve Perry missed school yet again. In fact, the “no excuses” champion who describes himself as the nation’s “most trusted educator” was in Delaware Friday at part of his never-ending fee-for-service speech making. Students at Capital Prep would be thrown out and sent back to one of Hartford’s other public […]The post Will Capital Prep’s Steve Perry show up fo
Common Core fails to meet Connecticut constitutional standards
Wendy Lecker, fellow pro-public education advocate and commentator, has a stunningly profound piece in this weekend’s Stamford Advocate and in other Hearst Media newspapers about the new Common Core standards and their inappropriateness for Connecticut. Andrea Conway, a fellow pro-public education warrior here in Connecticut read the piece and observed “This is the absolute BEST […]The post Common
11-2-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Controversial Bridgeport billboard donated to Mayor FinchRaising Hale is a media project of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. Although Wait, What? and Raising Hale are miles apart on some philosophical issues, Raising Hale’s dedication to “uncovering government waste, fraud, and abuse in Connecticut” is impressive. Fellow investigative journalist and blogger, Zachary J