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Monday, August 19, 2013

8-19-13 Wait What?

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Just when Connecticut’s “Alliance” Districts thought it couldn’t get worse…
With only days to go until the start of the new school year, Connecticut’s 30 Alliance Districts, the thirty poorest school districts in the state, still haven’t heard whether they are getting the additional funds that Governor Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly promised them for this year. But Malloy and Pryor’s pet project, the […]The post Just when Connecticut’s “Alliance” Districts th

Failing our obligation on school integration
In a recent commentary piece written for the Stamford Advocate and other Connecticut newspapers owned by Hearst Media, Wendy Lecker, the outspoken school advocate wrote about our nation and state’s failure to truly deal with racial isolation in our public schools. Wendy Lecker’s observations come almost 50 years to the day that Martin Luther King delivered his […]The post Failing our obligation on


8-18-13 Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics
Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics: Promoting good test taking? No I call it child abuse!Categories: Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) Education Reform Malloy Standardized Testing Stefan PryorTags: CMTEducation ReformMalloyStandardized TestingStefan PryorConnecticut Governor Malloy and his Com