Malloy administration and Hartford Mayor team up to undermine American Federation of Teachers and Clark Elementary
When Paul Hozler, the Executive Director of the corporate funded education reform group Achieve Hartford! wrote to two high-ranking Hartford Board of Education administrators that he was concerned that, “…The [Clark] parents seem to be playing into the pockets of the AFT,” Hozler revealed far more than he probably meant to about the strategy behind […] The post Malloy administration and Hartford
Trumbull postpones Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Testing for juniors
Only 26 of Trumbull High School’s 530 juniors showed up to take last Friday’s Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test of a test. Earlier in the week, only 47 (less than 10 percent) of the town’s high school juniors participated in that day’s portion of the test. In response, Trumbull has postponed this week’s Common […] The post Trumbull postpones Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test
4-7-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: NEWS FLASH: Its official – choice means Friendship Charter School or nothingIn a brazen effort to hand over Hartford’s Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out-of-state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve