Are we winning yet? No, actually we’re failing Connecticut’s children.
Categories: Bridgeport Connecticut State Government Hartford Malloy New Haven Poverty State BudgetYou want a campaign issue for the 2012 election? Here is one… A recent report by Connecticut Voices...
View ArticleAchievement First: Expanding discrimination in New Haven
Categories: Achievement First/ConnCAN Charter Schools Education Reform New Haven Stefan PryorTags: Achievement FirstEducation ReformElm City College PrepNew HavenStefan PryorThe ugly truth about...
View ArticleMore public subsidies for Achievement First, Commissioner Pryor’s “former”...
Categories: Achievement First/ConnCAN Bridgeport Budget Cuts Charter Schools Education Reform Hartford Malloy New Haven Stefan PryorTags: Achievement FirstBridgeportCharter SchoolsEducation...
View ArticleWill Connecticut become home to the next Gulen-affiliated Charter School?
Categories: Charter Schools Education Reform Malloy New Haven Stefan PryorTags: Gulen Charter SchoolsMalloyStefan Pryor(Co-written by Jonathan Pelto and Wendy Lecker) Note: Over the next few weeks,...
View ArticleUPDATE – Bridgeport Bd. Of Ed. may postpone vote on Charter Proposal
Categories: Bridgeport Charter Schools Excel Bridgeport Inc. Kenneth Moales Mayor Bill Finch Nate Snow New Haven Paul Vallas Stefan Pryor Steven Adamowski WindhamA late report is that the Board may...
View ArticleMalloy/Pryor’s new “Turnaround Director” violated Connecticut law by failing...
In what can only be described as a classic move of incredible arrogance, Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, has named a non-certified individual to head up Malloy and Pryor’s...
View ArticleNeed a TFA recruit? New Haven that will be $2,500… Windham you’ll have to...
In 2011, Teach for America brought in $306.8 million in revenue, up 14 percent from the year before. TFA brags that only 20 percent of their money goes to fundraising and administration. As of two...
View ArticleNew Haven politician lands a top job with Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor
A former five-term member of the New Haven City Alderman who lost a Democratic Primary for the New Haven City Clerk’s job on September 10th has landed a state job with Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of...
View ArticleA parent speaks out about Teach For America
There is a lot in corporate education “reform” that astonishes, but perhaps nothing is so astonishing as the strategic deployment of TFA. It’s counter-intuitive that untrained recent graduates will...
View ArticleThe Malloy/Pryor Jumoke Charter School Gravy Train
Many of Connecticut’s public schools remaining significantly underfunded but for those looking for a case study about the growing privatization of public education in America need only look as far as...
View ArticleParents, Teachers and Taxpayers – Beware the Achievement First Inc. Money...
[This is the first in a series of articles about Achievement First Inc.’s proposed New Haven Elm City Imagine School] Aka – The Charter School Industry’s step by step dismantling of public education in...
View ArticleNew Haven (& CT) Taxpayers to subsidize Achievement First’s corporate...
Second in a series on the attempt by Achievement First Inc. to collect even more money from Connecticut’s taxpayers. Part 1 can be found here: Parents, Teachers and Taxpayers – Beware the Achievement...
View ArticleThe “done deal” to divert scarce public funds to another Achievement First...
At last night’s New Haven Board of Education meeting, New Haven Board of Education President Carlos Torre and member Alicia Caraballo, “peppered proponents with skeptical questions and declared...
View ArticleAchievement First Inc. New Haven charter money grab tabled
Public opposition to another privately run, publicly funded charter school in New Haven has led to the City’s pro-charter superintendent of schools withdrawing his plan to turn over even more scarce...
View ArticleStench of Chicago’s Corporate Education Reform Industry scandal wafts as far...
This past Tuesday (October 13, 2015) former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett, one of the nation’s leading Corporate Education Reform Industry leaders, pleaded guilty for her role in a...
View ArticleNew York’s “New Visions for Public Schools” is coming to save Connecticut
Brace yourselves … Yet another New York corporate education reform organization has decided to open up shop in Connecticut. What is that line about robbing banks because that is where the money is…? In...
View ArticleAdd New Haven Charter Schools to those that discriminate against English...
As noted in the recent Wait, What? articles entitled, Hartford Charters fail to accept and educate Latinos and English Language Learners and Bridgeport Charter Schools Discriminate Against Connecticut...
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