Monday, December 16, 2013

12-16-13 Wait What?

Wait What?:







Where is the Hartford Board of Education’s promised investigation of Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry?
The Hartford Board of Education will be holding its last meeting of 2013 tomorrow from 5:30pm to 8:30pm at the Sarah J. Rawson School. The agenda has yet to be released by Superintendent Kishimoto’s office but a critical question is whether the Hartford Board of Education will discuss the status of any on-going investigation into […]The post Where is the Hartford Board of Education’s promised inve


Malloy’s Steelpointe Harbor corporate welfare package; the gift that keeps giving
This past September, Governor Malloy and the State Bond Commission approved $31 million in taxpayer funded subsidies for the development of a Bass Pro Store and other improvements to support of the Steelpointe Harbor development project in Bridgeport.    Malloy’s corporate welfare package came on top of $11 million in Federal funding, various subsidies form […]The post Malloy’s Steelpointe Harbor
12-15-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Numbers Don’t Lie, Unless Someone Wants Them To“Never in my career as a high school English teacher — as an instructor of reading and writing, as a purveyor of literature — have I been asked to collect more “student data” and create more “spreadsheets” than I have in the past several years.”  - Barth Keck Barth Keck is an English teacher and […]The post Numbers Don’t Lie, Unless Someon