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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

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Attn: Steve Perry – It’s called the CT Code of Professional Responsibility for School Administrators
As a certified school administrator in Connecticut you have the legal and moral obligation to uphold this code.  But the record increasingly reveals that Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry and the other administrators at Capital Preparatory Magnet School have consistently failed to meet the most basic elements of this code. For example, section (b) of […]The post Attn: Steve Perry – It’s called th

Vallas demand for $16,500 in extra taxpayer funds succeeds
Paul Vallas will be getting an extra $16,500 from Bridgeport and Connecticut taxpayers thanks to last night’s 5-4 vote of the Bridgeport Board of Education.  After heavy lobbying from Mayor Bill Finch and Vallas supporters, newly elected board member Democrat Dave Hennessey, who was part of the successful anti-Finch challenge slate in last September’s Democratic […]The post Vallas demand for $16,5

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Wait What?: Malloy administration action raises more ethics questions…Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, is no stranger to ethics issues. Pryor and his operatives at the State Department of Education are now engaged in activities that raise even more potential ethics violations. As reported yesterday in a post entitled, “Pryor schedules Corporate Education Reform Industry L