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Sunday, September 21, 2014

9-21-14 Wait What? - The pro-Common Core Standardized Testing governor throws students, parents and teachers a bone.

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The pro-Common Core Standardized Testing governor throws students, parents and teachers a bone.

With election day in sight, Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy, one the of country’s leading corporate education reform supporters, recently issues a press release announcing that he was writing a letter to Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, to “explore” reducing the use of the Common Core standardized testing for 11th graders.  (Malloy’s pro-corporate education reform […] The post The pro-Com


9-20-14 Wait What? - All Week
Wait What?:  Wait What? All WeekQuestions that teachers (parents, public school advocates and all voters) should be asking…Over the next week, the leadership of the Connecticut Education Association will be deciding whether to follow the lead of the American Federation of Teachers and endorse Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy, the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teache