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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

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NEWS FLASH: Pryor threatens public school superintendents
A number of public school superintendents were recently instructed to join an emergency conference call with Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor. According to numerous sources, Stefan Pryor used the call to threaten public school superintendents by telling them that if they testified at the Education Committee’s Common Core public hearing their school districts […]The post NE

More crazy sh*t Capital Prep Steve Perry has said
Steve Perry is the principal of a public school in Hartford, Connecticut.  For that job, the taxpayers of Hartford and Connecticut pay Perry close to $200,000 in salary, benefits and retirement credits. But Steve Perry also has a lucrative speaking business that means he is absent from his job about 20 percent of the school […]The post More crazy sh*t Capital Prep Steve Perry has said appeared fir


Bribing the guinea pigs (aka our students)

Governor Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and the corporate education reform industry are fond of claiming that the Common Core and massive Common Core testing scheme is about making sure students are “College and Career Ready.” As a result of their warped belief in more and more standardized testing, most Connecticut towns will […]The post Bribing the guinea pigs (aka our stud


3-10-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: Malloy full steam ahead on Common Core, Common Core Testing and “education reforms”Just over a month ago, Governor Malloy took the the microphone to announce his election year effort to persuade teachers, parents and public school advocates to overlook his three years of failed education policies and throw their support behind his re-election aspirations. In essence, Malloy said, “I he