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“Last Call: Please help build the Wait, What? blog” Dear Friends, Last financial request for 2013! (I promise) To donate go to: Wait,What? Donation Page Wait, What? could really use your help. As Wait, What? readers know, using one of his two pseudonyms Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry or a stand-in for him, made the […]The post Wait, What? Could Still Use Your Your Help… appeared first on Wait
Corporate welfare gone amok: “For ESPN, Millions to Remain in Connecticut”
The New York Times had an incredible article yesterday about Governor Malloy’s decision to give tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funded corporate welfare checks to the extraordinarily successful ESPN Company. Malloy is hardly the first Connecticut governor to provide excessive corporate subsidies to “win over” ESPN, but he certainly gets the “award” for […]The post Corporate welfare gone am
DEC 26
Kicking the can down the road….Governor Malloy style
As the end of 2013 approaches we are reminded that unlike Gepetto’s wooden puppet, many politicians have taken lying and misrepresenting the truth to unprecedented levels, without suffering the ignominious consequences that affected Pinocchio. If that wasn’t the case, Connecticut’s Governor Dannel Malloy would be having an extremely hard time getting in and out of […]The post Kicking the can down
DEC 24
Wait, What? surpasses the 1 million visitor mark
As the Wait, What? blog approaches its 3rd anniversary, it has blown past the 1 million visitor mark! “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” – Leo Tolstoy Even more incredible, almost 15,000 comments have been posted to the site. “It […]The post Wait, What? surpasses the 1 million visitor mark appeared first on Wait What?.
DEC 23
Pryor to drop a $1 million to persuade voters to support Common Core
It’s no joke… According to an article in the Waterbury Republican-American, despite the fact that the federal government is forcing states to adopt the Common Core and Connecticut is already well down the path of implementing the Common Core, the Malloy Administration and its Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor are planning to drop $1 million […]The post Pryor to drop a $1 million to persuade v
Pryor now using out-of-state company to recruit out-of-state school principals
With just over a month left in Mass Insight’s $1 million contract with Stefan Pryor and the Connecticut State Department of Education, the out-of-state company hired to run much of Stefan Pryor’s “turnaround” operation is posting job advertisements to recruit out-of-state school principals to take jobs in Connecticut. Mass Insight’s move comes despite the fact […]The post Pryor now using out-of-st
DEC 22
NEWS FLASH: Steve Perry’s use of private email account will not shield public’s right to know
A set of emails acquired by Wait, What? reveals that as early as November 2012, a year before the Hartford Board of Education voted to reject a secret deal to hand Capital Prep Magnet School and S.A.N.D. elementary school over to a private company created by Capital Prep Principal Perry, discussions were taking place between Malloy’s […]The post NEWS FLASH: Steve Perry’s use of private email accou
DEC 21
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