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Sunday, March 9, 2014

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Malloy Administration: Clark Elementary Parents – You must accept Friendship Charter School or else

Parents, teachers and the community that makes up Hartford’s Clark Elementary School in Hartford are still reeling from the Malloy Administration’s threat that the Clark “Turnaround Committee” must agree to turn their local Hartford neighborhood school over to Washington D.C.’s Friendship Charter School Inc or else they won’t get the funds necessary to improve their […]The post Malloy Administrati


3-8-14 Wait What? All Week
Wait What?:  Wait What? All WeekThe two “MUST READ” columns of the weekendFellow pro-pubic education advocates and commentators have done it again – with two more MUST READ pieces. Sarah Darer Littman with “The Brave New World of being ‘College and Career Ready” and Wendy Lecker with “A crisis of low standards” Wendy Lecker writes, Not poverty. Not inadequate resources. Not toxic stress. Not segre