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What is the story about Governor Dannel Malloy’s little Bronx Charter School for Excellence - Wait What?

What is the story about Governor Dannel Malloy’s little Bronx Charter School for Excellence - Wait What?:

What is the story about Governor Dannel Malloy’s little Bronx Charter School for Excellence






Faced with a mountain a state debt, insufficient revenues to maintain vital services and his unwillingness to require the rich to pay their fair share in taxes, why would Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy be saying that he will not sign any new state budget that doesn’t include the taxpayer funds that Steve Perry wants in order to open his privately owned, but publicly funded charter school in Bridgeport and the money a small charter school in the Bronx is demanding so that they can save Stamford, Connecticut by opening up a charter school in his home city.
Perhaps even more incredibly, Malloy is demanding that the Democrats in the Connecticut Legislature put the extra charter school money into the budget at the same time that he wants them to adopt a budget that makes record cuts to Connecticut’s public schools, including schools in the legislators’ own districts.
It is a question that every public schools student, parent, teacher and taxpayer should be asking.
To some degree the answer appears to be that given the choice, Malloy will always go for the campaign donations rather than the needs of Connecticut’s public schools, teachers and students.
In an amazing piece of investigative journalism, the Hartford Courant’s Jenny Wilson lays bare Malloy’s relationship with some of his campaign donors who are part of the charter school elite.  See Hedge Fund Managers Back Charter Schools, Democrats’ Campaigns
While Malloy’s true motivations behind holding up a $40 billion, two-year state budget, in order to funnel about $15 million a year to two new charter schools remains a mystery, the connection between the charter school industry and politicians is not.
From sea to shining sea, the corporate executives who support charter schools are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into political campaign and with Malloy becoming chair of What is the story about Governor Dannel Malloy’s little Bronx Charter School for Excellence - Wait What?: