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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

4-30-14 Wait What?

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Corporate Education Reform Industry remains in “attack mode“
Or alternative headline:  File in “reasons to run” folder The latest headline from the education reform blog “Education Bridgeport” reads, “Pelto Using Governor’s Race to Make Money.” The blogger explains, So Jon Pelto is talking about a run for governor. The reason why is pretty clear: Money. Unless his ego is larger than any continental […] The post Corporate Education Reform Industry remains in

Post-election state budget deficit projected to be an incredible $1.4 billion
As Wait, What? readers have been reading for months, the Malloy administration has been painting a rosy picture of Connecticut’s state budget situation thanks to the unparalleled use of budget gimmicks and inflated revenue estimates. Readers have been repeatedly informed that Malloy’s irresponsible approach to budgeting would leave Connecticut with a $1 billion state budget […] The post Post-elect

Let Teachers Teach
Teresa M. Pelham is the co-blogger for the Hartford Courant’s Mommy Minute blog and a well-known children’s book writer. In recent Courant column entitled, Let’s Ditch Those Tests And Let Teachers Teach, Pelham eloquently put into words what many of us are thinking. More Testing, Less Learning is not what prepares our children for the […] The post Let Teachers Teach appeared first on Wait What?.


4-29-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: Malloy administration considered “restraining order” to stop FOI requests?In what may be the single most bizarre development yet in the Malloy administration’s war on teachers and public education and their ongoing commitment to secrecy, a recent Freedom of Information request has produced an email between Governor Malloy’s Director of Communications and a senior official from ConnCAN,