NEWS FLASH: Kids win, Malloy/Jepsen lose as judge rules school funding trial to begin this summer
In a stunning defeat of Governor Malloy’s political strategy to push off CCEJF v. Rell school funding debate until after the 2014 gubernatorial election, a superior court judge ruled today that the trail will begin as scheduled. The trial date for the CCEJF .v Rell was scheduled to begin July 2014 beck in December 2011, […]The post NEWS FLASH: Kids win, Malloy/Jepsen lose as judge rules school fun
Look Out! The Common Core Test is coming to a school near you
January 2014 and it still isn’t clear exactly which Connecticut students will be forced to take the new Common Core (Smarter Balanced Test) this year. With the gubernatorial campaign only 10 months away, Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor have been telling towns that they have the option to stick with the Connecticut Mastery […]The post Look Out! The Common Core Test is coming
1-15-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: Michele Rhee’s StudentsFirst “education reform” group gives Louisiana a B-, Connecticut a D+Michele Rhee and her corporate education reform industry advocacy group are back with their annual “report card.” Over the last three years Rhee and StudentsFirst (called GNEPSA here in Connecticut) have been one of Governor Malloy’s strongest supporters, helping to fund the most expensive lobby