Is the Education Committee’s Common Core Informational Forum a joke?
The Democratic controlled Education Committee has scheduled an Informational Forum on the Common Core on Friday, February 28, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. in Room 2C of the Legislative Office Building. As presently designed, only invited guests will be allowed to speak. A number of sources have confirmed that at this point the speakers will be Governor […]The post Is the Education Committee’s Common Core I
Wait, What? 2014 Gubernatorial Election Readers Survey
Wait, What? readers; It is time once again to conduct a Wait, What? 2014 Gubernatorial Election Readers Survey. Although the results are unscientific, since it does not survey a random sample of Connecticut voters, the results always prove interesting. You can take the survey via the following link: Wait, What? 2014 Gubernatorial Election Readers Survey The […]The post Wait, What? 2014 Gubernatori
No real financial support for public schools, but plenty more for charter schools (especially Bridgeport)
When Dan Malloy was running for governor he pledged to make adequate funding for Connecticut’s public schools a priority. Instead Malloy introduced the most anti-teacher, anti-union, anti-public education corporate education reform industry initiative of any Democratic governor in the country. Rather than use state education funds to support local schools and take some of the […]The post No real f
2-19-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: Connecticut Education Committee members hear from a CT educatorA number of Connecticut legislators have told constituents that Governor Malloy and Commissioner Stefan Pryor are implementing education policies that are very different from what they were told during the 2012 debate that lead up to the passage of Malloy’s “education reform” legislation. Here is a letter that James D. Trif