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Friday, April 11, 2014

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Test Season Reveals America’s Biggest Failures (By Jeff Bryant)
Fellow pro-public education advocate and blogger Jeff Bryant runs  the Education Opportunity Network, one of the nation’s leading advocacy groups in the battle to beat back the corporate education reform industry and take back control of our public education system.  By signing up on the Education Opportunity Network’s website will not only be adding your […] The post Test Season Reveals America’s

Malloy’s double dipping campaign finance gravy train
By participating in Connecticut’s public financing system, Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy will receive $6,500,400 in public funds to pay for his 2014 re-election effort…. Yes, that number is Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand, Four Hundred Dollars. As readers know, public campaign finance systems were designed to take “big money” out of politics.  By agreeing to […] The post Malloy’s double dipping


4-10-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: “When we buy something, we should get what we pay for”Ann Policelli Cronin is a consultant in English education for school districts and university schools of education. She has taught middle and high school English, was a district-level administrator for English, taught university courses in English education, and was assistant director of the Connecticut Writing Project. She was Conn