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Monday, June 30, 2014

6-30-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy

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The attack on the fundamental rights workers continues
Here in Connecticut we have a Democratic Governor who proposed doing away with teacher tenure, which is the basic due process protection for those who devote their lives to educating, nurturing and supporting our state’s public school children. In the same piece of legislation, Senate Bill 24, Dannel “Dan’ Malloy also proposed completely doing away […] The post The attack on the fundamental rights


News Flash:  Malloy/Pryor hand another top job to an Achievement First Inc. staffer
The Malloy administration has given the one-hundred thousand dollar a year plus job of “Bureau Chief for District and School Transformation” to William (Billy) Johnson, a former employee of Achievement First Inc. Of course, Achievement First, Inc. being the large charter school management company that was co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Malloy’s Education Commissioner.   The company […] The post News


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