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Friday, April 25, 2014

4-25-14 Wait What?

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Greenwich superintendent joins Commissioner Pryor in misleading parents
Here we go again! Instead of fulfilling their legal, moral and ethical duty as a superintendent of a public school system in Connecticut, yet another public school superintendent has decided to join the Malloy’s administration’s ongoing efforts to mislead Connecticut parents into thinking that they do not have a right to opt their children out […] The post Greenwich superintendent joins Commission
Education Advocate Maria Naughton on the Common Core and Smarter Balanced Assessment Test
Here are two new more contributions from public education advocate Maria Naughton.  Maria Naughton is an educational consultant, former teacher and mother of four children in New Canaan Public Schools. She writes a column for the News of New Canaan. The first is a link to a radio show in which Maria Naughton discusses the […] The post Education Advocate Maria Naughton on the Common Core and Smarte
4-24-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: There goes another $1.8 million to an out-of-state corporate education reform consulting companyOnce again you can hear the high-priced consultants laughing their way to the bank with our tax dollars. Over the three years, Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, has been busy signing contracts with out-of-state consulting companies that are costing Connecticut taxpay