Vallas walks out on Bridgeport BOE (Again), CT Post implies it is the Board’s fault.
by jonpelto
At 11:41 pm on January 14, 2013, CT Post reported Linda Lambeck posted a story to her blog entitled, “Yes, Bridgeport BOE will still keep talking when staff and audience walk out.”
The CT Post reported, “Three hours into the city school board meeting Monday, and the panel still had not gotten to the heart of their agenda, which included a request to approve $200,000 in grants to help facilitate the opening of the district’s new high schools and a report on staff absenses (sic). The audience was dwindling. So Vallas and much of his staff got up and left (they did not “storm”, just left). Vallas said as he left that he wasn’t
Damn it’s that poverty thing again…
by jonpelto
Following last week’s State of the State address, Wait, What? wrote Connecticut – The State of the State: But what about poverty?
The post pointed out the that ten years ago, Connecticut state government passed legislation creating a commission on poverty and pledged to cut the rate of poverty in Connecticut by 50 percent over the next decade. However, ten years later, the rate of poverty in Connecticut has not gone down, in fact, it has gone up significantly.
Now CTNewsjunkie has a story about a new report about Connecticut’s working poor.
Jim Horan, the executive director of the Connecticut Association for Human Services, is quoted in the article and the underlying report indicating that, “Twenty-one percent of Connecticut’s working families are now low-income, increasing from 16 percent in just the past five years.”
Horan goes on to say, “Connecticut needs to invest in human infrastructure. We need to
