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Foxes guarding the chicken coop or Hartford politics as usual.
With relatively little fan-fare last fall, Board of Education Chairman Matt Poland appointed a 13 member search committee to choose a new superintendent of schools for the Hartford School System. Poland, who is not only appointed to the Board of Education by Mayor Segarra, is also the Director of the Hartford City Library, an organization […]The post Foxes guarding the chicken coop or Hartford pol
YESTERDAY
Michele Rhee’s StudentsFirst rally to support Steve Perry; Board fails to take up Perry’s threatening tweet
At last night’s Hartford Board of Education meeting Hartford Superintendent Christina Kishimoto and Hartford Board of Education Chairman Matt Poland failed to address the status of the promised investigation into Capital Prep Steve Perry’s threatening email rant or the growing controversy surrounding the Capital Prep Scholarship Fund. Instead the meeting was dominated by a lobbying […]The post Mic
DEC 19
Yup, Capital Prep’s Steve Perry Tweets about the dangers of Social Media…
Dr. Steve Perry @DrStevePerry Social media has had a net negative affect on schools. Kids & adults are free to tee off on each other & the schools are left to clean it up (December 18, 2013) This from a man who has sent out 32,971 Tweets, many during school hours, costing Hartford and Connecticut […]The post Yup, Capital Prep’s Steve Perry Tweets about the dangers of Social Media… appea
DEC 18
Freedom of Information Watch…. Hello Commissioner Pryor? It is the law!
Here is what the law says: Connecticut State Statutes: Sec. 1-212 – “Any person applying in writing shall receive, promptly upon request, a plain, facsimile, electronic or certified copy of any public record.” And yet another day has gone by with no response from the Connecticut Department of Education to Freedom of Information requests […]The post Freedom of Information Watch…. Hello Commissi
Another Brick in the Wall
It was called the Capital Prep Magnet School “Gift Brick” fundraiser. But good luck trying to find your brick… According to the “Gift Brick” fundraiser cover letter that went out with the order form in 2010, “It is important that you carefully read and completely fill out the enclosed order form. Each engraved brick […]The post Another Brick in the Wall (Not) appeared first on Wait What?.
DEC 17
What the heck is the Capital Prep Scholarship Fund?
The Capital Prep Magnet School website informs supporters that they can make “tax-deductible” donations to the Capital Prep Scholarship Fund. Donations can be made via a PayPal link or checks can be mailed to “The Capital Prep Scholarship Fund – 1304 Main Street – Hartford, CT 06103.” (Which is the school’s address). Contributors are […]The post What the heck is the Capital Prep Scholarship Fun
DEC 16
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
DEC 15
Nine Million in corporate welfare to help HOMESERVE USA move from Stamford to Norwalk
On Friday Governor Malloy and the State Bond Commission voted to give HOMESERVE USA, a Florida company, $9 million to help pay for their 9.4 mile move from downtown Stamford to Norwalk. The taxpayer funded corporate welfare package includes a $3 million loan (forgivable if job targets are met), a $1 million grant and $5 […]The post Nine Million in corporate welfare to help HOMESERVE USA move from
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 Someone Wants Them To (By Barth Keck) appeared first on Wait What
DEC 14
Malloy can tell it to the judge
Fellow public school advocate and columnist Wendy Lecker has written yet another “must read” column for the Stamford Advocate. While candidate “Dan” Malloy ran on a platform of supporting public education, Governor “Dannel” Malloy has pushed an agenda that has systematically undermined Connecticut’s public schools. Rather than solve Connecticut’s unconstitutional school funding formula, as […]