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Sunday, November 24, 2013

11-24-13 Wait What?

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NEWS FLASH: Secret Deal for Malloy Political ally turns Education Funding Formula into a joke
Apparently without the approval of the State Board of Education or the approval of the Connecticut General Assembly, the Malloy administration is planning to provide Malloy ally, Mayor Bill Finch, with a special deal so that he doesn’t have to have the City Bridgeport meet the state law concerning their minimum budget expenditures for local […]The post NEWS FLASH: Secret Deal for Malloy Political

Will Rogers, the “unequal distribution of the money” and the elections of 2014 and 2016
“I was born on Nov. 4, which is Election Day. . . . My birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.”  – Will Rogers There was a time in our nation’s history when one out of three Americans followed the writings of a […]The post Will Rogers, the “unequal distribution of the money” and the elections of 2014 and 2016 appeared first on Wait What?.

Oh and in case you missed it: Vallas lawyer’s gratuitous attack on those who sued Vallas
Although it didn’t get a lot of play at the time, following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Carmen Lopez v. Paul Vallas case that let Paul Vallas off the hook for not having the credentials necessary to get his 093 State of Connecticut superintendent certification, attorney Steven Ecker wrote a commentary piece following the […]The post Oh and in case you missed it: Vallas lawyer’s gratuitous

11-23-13 Wait What? All Week
Wait What?:        mark as readHartford Board of Education schedule re-vote for MondayMatt Poland, the Chairman of the Hartford Board of Education, has scheduled a “Special Meeting” of the board on Monday, November 25, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. in the plaza level conference room at 260 Constitution Plaza in Hartford. According to the agenda that was sent out at 4:59 pm Friday (for a Monday meeting, state