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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

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Vallas resigns as Bridgeport School Superintendent… Again!
It is all pretty simple.  The contract between Paul Vallas and the Bridgeport Board of Education states that if the Bridgeport Board of Education fires Vallas, they must pay him a full year’s salary of $234,000 plus benefits.  If on the other hand Vallas decides to leave his position all he need to is provide […]The post Vallas resigns as Bridgeport School Superintendent… Again! appeared first on
Malloy/Pryor Common Core Strategy – Hey, but we’ve got some computers!
Governor Malloy’s budget provides no additional state funding for major local educational expenses like special education and school transportation.  Meanwhile, Connecticut’s Education Funding Formula (ECS) is approximately $2 billion underfunded meaning the costs of funding local schools are being unfairly, and arguably illegally,  shifted on to the backs of local property taxpayers.  The result

1-6-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: A Pro-Public Education Party for Connecticut?The Connecticut Mirror leads with a story today about Governor Malloy’s PR campaign to “appease” Connecticut’s teachers in the hopes of getting active and retired teachers to support his 2014 gubernatorial re-election aspirations. The article, which is entitled “Malloy works to appease teachers in 2014,” reviews some of the turbulent history