The truth starts to come out about Jumoke Academy and Hartford’s Milner Elementary School - Wait, What?:
by jonpelto
After being ordered to appear at Mayor Finch’s Office today, Bridgeport’s, $234,000, part-time, Acting Superintendent of Schools, Paul Vallas has told an emergency meeting of the Board of Education that he is okay with Mayor Finch’s action to renege on his commitment to help Bridgeport’s schools.
According to a recent tweet from CT Post’s Linda Lambeck, “Vallas says he is only concerned with bottomline” and that “district getting less from city but being charged less 4 insurance.”
Lambeck’s goes on to report on her twitter account that, “Vallas says district is getting $1.2 million less from city. To offset, it will charge less for internal service fund. Will b a wash he says.”
The $1.2 million cut is a completely different number than Finch and his administration
by jonpelto
(Written by Jonathan Pelto and Wendy Lecker)
The CTMirror has a story today about the situation surrounding the takeover of Hartford’s Milner School by the Jumoke Academy.
The article reveals that despite claiming to be a Hartford public school, Jumoke’s student population is very different than the population at Hartford’s Milner School and that it is easy to talk about “improvements” when you are given unprecedented amounts of additional funds.
The CTMirror writes, “Among the most striking changes was the hiring of aides, known as “academic assistants,” to be paired with teachers in every classroom — a key strategy
