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Sunday, June 29, 2014

6-29-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy

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“Disruptive innovation’ policies hurting state’s children” (By Wendy Lecker)

The Corporate Education Reform Industry calls it “Disruptive Innovation.” Translated into English, it describes the process by which an “education reformer” claims that they are improving the quality of education for our children by blowing up and undermining our public schools, turning them over to private companies to run, allowing a bunch of non-educators and […] The post “Disruptive innovation




6-28-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?:  Wait What? All Week“This is stealing from the poor and middle class to make a billionaire even richer” (Pelto, August 2012)Twenty-two months later – vindication! Almost two years ago, Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy announced that he was giving Bridgewater Associates, the world’s most profitable hedge fund, $120 million to move their headquarters from Westport to Stamford. Bridgewater’s