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Malloy Gets Standing Ovation From State Union Leaders: Rank + file wonder if someone spiked the punch
Malloy pulls in $36,000 plus from Connecticut nursing home industry
News Flash: Malloy, Pryor and Jepsen get slapped down by Court
Yesterday Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry missed yet another morning of school, choosing instead to continue his unending list of paid speaking engagements. Friday it was off to Massachusetts to be the key-note speaker rather than bother with his full-time job of serving as the head of Capital Prep Magnet School. Today Perry is off […]The post Steve Perry continues his record of excessive abse
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Late today the Hartford Courant posted a blog item entitled, “Malloy Gets Standing Ovation From State Union Leaders.” The Courant wrote, “Gov. Dannel Malloy rarely receives any plaudits from Republicans or skeptics of his policies on the state budget and other issues…But he still receives a warm response from the state’s unions – as shown […]The post Malloy Gets Standing Ovation From State Union Leaders: Rank + file wonder if someone spiked the punch appeared first on Wait What?.
Malloy faces more controversy on fundraising strategy as he collects at least $36,000 from Connecticut’s nursing home industry in recent months. If Governor Malloy thought he could hide campaign donations by running them through the Democratic State Central Committee’s “federal” account, he is learning the hard way that even that route has been discovered. Thanks […]The post Malloy pulls in $36,000 plus from Connecticut nursing home industry appeared first on Wait What?.
As CT Mirror’s Jacqueline Rabe Thomas is reporting in an article entitled, Trial guaranteed on CT school funding and reforms, earlier today a Superior Court judge “rejected the state’s request to throw out a lawsuit charging that Connecticut has failed to provide enough money to its poorest school districts.” “The decision comes eight years after […]The post News Flash: Malloy, Pryor and Jepsen get slapped down by Court appeared first on Wait What?.
DEC 05
Campaign Finance Reform Malloy Style: NU CEO says support Malloy by giving to the Connecticut Democratic Party
Not long ago Connecticut adopted a landmark campaign finance reform law. As a result of that law, candidates running for governor who wanted to participate in the public financing system could not accept donations greater than $100. For few short years Connecticut’s campaign finance law served as a model for the nation. When more and […]The post Campaign Finance Reform Malloy Style: NU CEO says s
Arne Duncan is an idiot
Earlier this week, some data about the results of some international standardized test scores were released. Diane Ravitch put them in perspective in a piece published by the Huffington Post. (See: What You Need to Know About the International Test Scores). But quite frankly, more interesting than the results was the way the corporate education […]The post Arne Duncan is an idiot (and a liar) ap
DEC 04
Did you see the “For Sale” sign that they Malloy Administration put up?
The evidence continues to surface… Since Governor Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly changed the law to allow individuals to donate larger amounts of money to the respective State political parties, the funds have been flowing in to the Democratic State Central Committee courtesy of those who do business with the state or want to […]The post Did you see the “For Sale” sign that they Mallo
Are Alliance School Districts implementing their Turnaround Plans with “fidelity”?
That unbelievable question is what Morgan Barth; Malloy’s School Turnaround Director at the State Department of Education (and former Achievement First Inc. administrator) is asking Connecticut’s Alliance School Districts. Are you implementing your plan with fidelity…? As the direction of Stefan Pryor, Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, the State Department of Education has managed to put […]The
DEC 03
Malloy can’t contain himself, uses speech to criticize lobbying effort by teachers and education unions…
As readers are aware, Governor Dannel Malloy traveled to Washington D.C. yesterday to speak to the right-wing, neoconservative American Enterprise Institute. His speech was entitled, “School reform dos and don’ts: Lessons from Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy.” As originally proposed, Malloy’s “education reform” initiative was the most anti-teacher, anti-union education reform legislation propo
Time for the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee to come clean about spending
Over the last few months the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee has been raising money that purportedly would be used to help Democratic candidates beat Republican candidates. But as Wait, What? readers know from earlier posts, Governor Malloy, Democratic Party Chair Nancy DiNardo and the Democratic State Central Committee syphoned over more than $37,000 in […]The post Time for the Con
And on Education Funding… Malloy misleads audience… again…
According to an article published in the CT Mirror and entitled, “Malloy makes no promises to increase school funding further,” when speaking to the right-wing American Enterprise Institute yesterday, Governor Malloy was “noncommittal Monday when asked during a forum in Washington, D.C., if he would further increase education funding again next year.” In what has […]The post And on Education Fundi
DEC 02
Malloy tells right-wing American Enterprise Institute he is the “education governor”
As reported earlier today, Governor Malloy traveled to Washington D.C. today to speak to the ultra-right wing American Enterprise Institute. (see Wait, What? post: Malloy speaks to right-wing American Enterprise Institute in ongoing effort to alienate every teacher and public education advocate). The purpose of his trip to D.C. was to brag about his Education Reform […]The post Malloy tells right
Malloy speaks to right-wing American Enterprise Institute in ongoing effort to alienate every teacher and public education advocate
With the 2014 gubernatorial election on the horizon, Governor Dannel P. Malloy remains true to his never-ending effort to alienate every teacher and public education advocate in Connecticut. Today he travels to the ultra-right wing American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. to speak on “School Reform.” American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is the leading “think-tank” for […]The post Malloy sp
DEC 01
David Samuels: The Community Party’s Powerful Voice for Social Justice
David Samuels is the founder of the Community Party. The Community Party is a Connecticut statewide network of activists dedicated to addressing issues of social justice and criminal justice reform. Samuels and the Community Party have been working to educate people and change public policy on a wide variety of issues. In particular, Samuels and […]The post David Samuels: The Community Party’s
Perry returns to the paid speaking circuit
Tonight, December 1, 2013, Steve Perry will be speaking at George Washington University from 7pm – 9pm (no word whether the will be back in time for school tomorrow morning). But he’ll certainly be missing another school day on Friday when he speaks at the METCO Directors’ Association meeting outside of Boston from 8:30am – […]The post Perry returns to the paid speaking circuit (while taxpayers p
NOV 30
School Choice or Extortion
Public education advocate and fellow commentator Wendy Lecker has an outstanding piece in this weekend’s Stamford Advocate and other Hearst Media outlets about Hartford’s recent “school choice” debacle. You can find Wendy’s piece at: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Lecker-School-choice-or-extortion-5022275.php. Below is a somewhat longer version. Both do an excellent job laying out t