What the Frack is going on with Senate Bill 237 that would ban Fracking Waste in Connecticut
As the clock counts down toward the end of the 2014 session of the Connecticut General Assembly, Senate Bill 237, AN ACT PROHIBITING THE STORAGE OR DISPOSAL OF FRACKING WASTE IN CONNECTICUT, appears to be withering on the vine. In other words, some important people or constituencies are trying to kill the vital piece of […] The post What the Frack is going on with Senate Bill 237 that would ban Fr
Re-posting Malloy’s Teacher evaluation system is fundamentally and fatally flawed
Public education advocate Wendy Lecker’s latest column is reaching a national audience thanks to Diane Ravitch’s blog. Here is a re-post of Saturday’s Wait, What? post about Lecker’s commentary piece. In her latest MUST READ commentary piece, fellow public education advocate, Wendy Lecker, lays out the facts about Governor Malloy’s unfair, inappropriate and fatally flawed teacher evaluation […] Th
‘The Other Guy is Worse’ Is A Tired Strategy (By Sarah Darer Littman)
In her latest CT News Junkie commentary, fellow education advocate Sarah Darer Littman confronts THE ISSUE that faces Connecticut voters in 2014. Are we left with the “choice” of voting for one candidate over another — because we are told the other is “worse” or do we break out of the trap that the two […] The post ‘The Other Guy is Worse’ Is A Tired Strategy (By Sarah Darer Littman) appeared fir
5-4-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: One more gimmick laden State Budget before the 2014 election for governorWhen Dan Malloy was running for governor in 2010 he wrote, We have to be committed to getting our fiscal house in order…the current budgeting is a perfect example of irresponsible budgeting…Why? Because this administration, once again, took the easy way out…the current budget was balanced on phantom cuts and one-