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Is the Charter Movement Imploding? (by Diane Ravitch)
Using Connecticut as an example and featuring a recent Hartford Courant column written by Colin McEnroe, Diane Ravitch, the nation’s leading public education advocate, has entitled her latest blog Is the Charter Movement Imploding? Ravitch writes, In state after state, charter schools are proving that it is downright risky to turn public money over to […] The post Is the Charter Movement Imploding
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Founders Left Lesson For Evasive Politicians (By Kevin Rennie)
My July 4th Wait, What? Post was entitled When Democracy is seen as a danger…. Turns out Kevin Rennie, the Hartford Courant columnist was tackling a somewhat similar topic in his latest article. In his weekend column, Rennie writes, If you have not already this holiday weekend, take a few minutes to read the Declaration […] The post Founders Left Lesson For Evasive Politicians (By Kevin Rennie) ap
When Democracy is seen as a danger…
This week, as our state and nation prepared to celebrate the 4th of July, the union leaders of the Connecticut AFL-CIO sent out their weekly email to members. Their update included the following article, Can’t Support Petitioning For Pelto I am an advocate for access to the election ballot. I was a plaintiff in a […] The post When Democracy is seen as a danger… appeared first on Wait What?.
JUL 03
How much did you or your UConn student contribute to Hillary Clinton’s $251,000 speaking fee
Here is the latest on UConn’s payment of $251,000 to Hillary Clinton for speaking on the Storrs Campus earlier this year Pat Eaton-Rob of the Associated Press writes, HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The University of Connecticut on Thursday defended its decision to have former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speak on campus in April […] The post How much did you or your UConn student contribute t
Malloy and Pryor: The Connecticut Charter School Debacle Expands
Thanks to Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, Connecticut’s charter school industry has been sucking up tens of millions of dollars in public funds that could have been going to help Connecticut’s real public schools. Malloy’s unlimited commitment to charter schools runs so deep that when he brags that he […] The post Malloy and Pryor: The Connecticut Cha
JUL 02
Pelto to Union Leaders: Do the Ends Justify the Means?
Released to the media earlier today…. TheService Employees International Union has issued a press advisory that they “will make an important announcement at noon at SEIU 1199 New England Headquarters, 77 Huyshope Avenue, Hartford Malloy and Wyman are listed as attending. Although the SEIU’s leadership informed Jonathan Pelto, the gubernatorial candidate for the Education and Democracy […] The post
CT Post Editorial: A long-overdue step on charters
The Connecticut Post has published a powerful editorial about the Jumoke/FUSE charter school debacle and the Malloy Administration’s failure to properly oversee the growing charter school industry in Connecticut. Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and Pryor’s minions of charter school allies are diverting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to […] The post
JUL 01
The battle against the corporate education reform industry takes center stage
Charter School Scandal Continues to Rock Malloy Administration… However, rather than conduct a truly independent investigation into the fall of the Jumoke/FUSE charter school management company, Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education and his political appointees on the State Board of Education decided to hire a lawyer to conduct an “investigation.” Stefan Pryor, Malloy’s Education Commissione
JUN 30
The attack on the fundamental rights workers continues
Here in Connecticut we have a Democratic Governor who proposed doing away with teacher tenure, which is the basic due process protection for those who devote their lives to educating, nurturing and supporting our state’s public school children. In the same piece of legislation, Senate Bill 24, Dannel “Dan’ Malloy also proposed completely doing away […] The post The attack on the fundamental rights
News Flash: Malloy/Pryor hand another top job to an Achievement First Inc. staffer
The Malloy administration has given the one-hundred thousand dollar a year plus job of “Bureau Chief for District and School Transformation” to William (Billy) Johnson, a former employee of Achievement First Inc. Of course, Achievement First, Inc. being the large charter school management company that was co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Malloy’s Education Commissioner. The company […] The post News
JUN 29
“Disruptive innovation’ policies hurting state’s children” (By Wendy Lecker)
The Corporate Education Reform Industry calls it “Disruptive Innovation.” Translated into English, it describes the process by which an “education reformer” claims that they are improving the quality of education for our children by blowing up and undermining our public schools, turning them over to private companies to run, allowing a bunch of non-educators and […] The post “Disruptive innovation