Green says that «the Connecticut Education Association is at war with Gov.
Malloy over his education reform strategy,» that Malloy is only trying to «convince taxpayers, parents and teachers that his plan is a moderate, unified effort to improve schools» and that the «CEA is telling teachers that the strategy is a threat to every teacher in the state.»
Not exact matches
Over the past 18 months, Stefan Pryor,
Malloy's Commissioner of
Education, co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. (the large charter school Management Company) and corporate education reform aficionado, has moved out all the professional expertise from the State Department of Education's office that is responsible for what used to be called Priority School Districts but are now called Alliance D
Education, co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. (the large charter school Management Company) and corporate
education reform aficionado, has moved out all the professional expertise from the State Department of Education's office that is responsible for what used to be called Priority School Districts but are now called Alliance D
education reform aficionado, has moved out all the professional expertise from the State Department of
Education's office that is responsible for what used to be called Priority School Districts but are now called Alliance D
Education's office that is responsible for what used to be called Priority School Districts but are now called Alliance Districts.
Since January of this year, Occhiogrosso's company has billed A Better Connecticut, the leading charter school advocacy group,
over $ 2.3 million for television ads, polling and strategy to support
Malloy's
education reforms.
According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor
Malloy, the champion of the corporate
education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well
over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national
education reform and privatization effort.
readers know from earlier posts, Governor
Malloy, Democratic Party Chair Nancy DiNardo and the Democratic State Central Committee syphoned
over more than $ 37,000 in a failed attempt to beat back a Democratic challenge slate in Bridgeport that did not support Paul Vallas or Governor
Malloy and Mayor Bill Finch's corporate
education reform agenda.
In his effort to «win»
over (aka snow) teachers, parents and public school advocates,
Malloy's plan appears to be to push off a couple of elements of his corporate
education reform industry agenda until he can make it past November's election for governor.
Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions
over Gov. Dan
Malloy's school
reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code
Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).
In recent weeks, parents from two community schools have risen up to successfully oppose proposals by Christina Kishimoto, Hartford's outgoing «
reform» superintendent, and Governor
Malloy's Commissioner of
Education, Stefan Pryor to hand
over their neighborhood schools
over to private companies.
Governor
Malloy's original «
education reform» bill included language that mandated that when the State of Connecticut takes
over a school system, the
education commissioner will have the authority to approve or reject the local board's choice for superintendent.
One of the most contentious aspects of Governor
Malloy's «
education reform» proposal was the section granting Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, the power to take over a local district school, ban collective bargaining, fire the staff and hand the school over to a third party who would then be exempt from having to follow Connecticut's laws about competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of con
education reform» proposal was the section granting
Malloy's Commissioner of
Education, Stefan Pryor, the power to take over a local district school, ban collective bargaining, fire the staff and hand the school over to a third party who would then be exempt from having to follow Connecticut's laws about competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of con
Education, Stefan Pryor, the power to take
over a local district school, ban collective bargaining, fire the staff and hand the school
over to a third party who would then be exempt from having to follow Connecticut's laws about competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of consultants.
All together the various corporate funded «
education reform» groups dropped another $ 1.4 million,
over the last six months, to promote and lobby on behalf of Governor Dannel
Malloy's anti-teacher,
education reform initiatives that included diverting even more scarce public funds to privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.
Over the first 120 days of the 2012 Legislative Session, corporate lobby groups spent over $ 2.2 million (and counting) in their effort to pass Governor Malloy's «education reform» b
Over the first 120 days of the 2012 Legislative Session, corporate lobby groups spent
over $ 2.2 million (and counting) in their effort to pass Governor Malloy's «education reform» b
over $ 2.2 million (and counting) in their effort to pass Governor
Malloy's «
education reform» bill.
We certainly know that reality here, as Governor
Malloy's
education reform associates like Mayor Bill Finch, «Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by t
education reform associates like Mayor Bill Finch, «Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the
reform associates like Mayor Bill Finch, «
Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by t
Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for
Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by t
Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the
Reform, are spending
over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of
education and replace it with one appointed by t
education and replace it with one appointed by the Mayor.
While
Malloy is touring the state claiming that his goal is to «win back» the respect of teachers, parents and public school advocates, later this week, Commissioner Pryor and SDE Turnaround Director Morgan Barth will be handing the microphone
over to the Connecticut Council for
Education Reform, a corporate funded lobby group that has spent over $ 160,000 lobbying on behalf of Malloy's «education reform» in
Education Reform, a corporate funded lobby group that has spent over $ 160,000 lobbying on behalf of Malloy's «education reform» initi
Reform, a corporate funded lobby group that has spent
over $ 160,000 lobbying on behalf of
Malloy's «
education reform» in
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reform» initiative.
Over recent weeks the focus of this blog has been on parental right and the importance of opting out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test, but that issue is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the unprecedented activities of the Corporate
Education Reform Industry and their supporters like Governor Dannel
Malloy.
last spring when the
education reform industry lobby group, A Better Connecticut, spent money on a poll to test various messages to promote
Malloy and then
over $ 2 million on campaign advertisements «thanking»
Malloy for his leadership in promoting charter schools and the privatization of public
education.
The anti-testing, pro-teacher position these college deans are taking is especially important in light of the fact that Governor Dannel
Malloy's administration has been engaged in an effort to force the University of Connecticut to turn its School of
Education over to the Corporate
Education Reform Industry.
Here in Connecticut «
education reformers» spent
over a million dollars in the last three months to support
Malloy's «
education reform.»
Over the past year and a half, Families for Excellent Schools — using a variety of aliases — has spent nearly $ 1.5 million in a record - breaking effort to lobby and persuade Connecticut legislators to support Governor Dannel
Malloy's unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory «
education reform» initiatives.
Moales is nothing short of infamous for his role in helping the
Malloy administration after they illegally took
over the Bridgeport Schools, for his unending support for Corporate
Education Reform Industry Kingpin, Paul Vallas, for his ability to acquire a multi-million dollar early education contract from the Malloy administration while serving on the Bridgeport Board of Education, for having illegally put dozens of little children in his daycare centers despite the fact that the building did not meet fire code or have certificates of occupancy and for his long - standing support of charter
Education Reform Industry Kingpin, Paul Vallas, for his ability to acquire a multi-million dollar early
education contract from the Malloy administration while serving on the Bridgeport Board of Education, for having illegally put dozens of little children in his daycare centers despite the fact that the building did not meet fire code or have certificates of occupancy and for his long - standing support of charter
education contract from the
Malloy administration while serving on the Bridgeport Board of
Education, for having illegally put dozens of little children in his daycare centers despite the fact that the building did not meet fire code or have certificates of occupancy and for his long - standing support of charter
Education, for having illegally put dozens of little children in his daycare centers despite the fact that the building did not meet fire code or have certificates of occupancy and for his long - standing support of charter schools.
Over the past three years, these so - called reformers have spent a record breaking $ 6 million plus lobbying on behalf of Governor
Malloy's
education reform initiatives, many of which have been aimed at promoting the privatization of public
education in the state.
None of those groups are directly connected to the «other» charter school and Corporate
Education Reform Industry groups that have spent money lobbying in Connecticut, including StudentsFirst and Students for
Education Reform, which together dropped in
over $ 1 million on behalf of
Malloy's proposals.
Since
Malloy introduced his corporate
education reform initiative in 2012, charter school and
education reform organizations have spent well
over $ 7 million on lobbying and advertising — a record - breaking amount for Connecticut.
Since corporate
education reform industry groupie Dannel
Malloy was elected governor of Connecticut, Pearson Inc. has collected just
over $ 3 million and counting from the taxpayers of the state of Connecticut.
Then, not to be outdone,
Malloy's Commissioner of
Education, Stefan Pryor took the stand calling Vallas the «shining light» of the education reform effort and claiming that Vallas» initiatives in New Orleans were not only having a profoundly positive impact but were being replicated all over the
Education, Stefan Pryor took the stand calling Vallas the «shining light» of the
education reform effort and claiming that Vallas» initiatives in New Orleans were not only having a profoundly positive impact but were being replicated all over the
education reform effort and claiming that Vallas» initiatives in New Orleans were not only having a profoundly positive impact but were being replicated all
over the country.
And
Malloy handed Connecticut's State Department of
Education over to corporate education reform aficionados like Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Special Master Steven Adamowski, education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the charter school
Education over to corporate
education reform aficionados like Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Special Master Steven Adamowski, education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the charter school
education reform aficionados like Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Special Master Steven Adamowski,
education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the charter school
education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the charter school industry.
Stephen Adamowski, who according to emails acquired through a Freedom of Information request, worked with Snow around
Malloy's
education reform bill, was a strong proponent of Hartford's Montessori school and now, as
Malloy's Special Master for Windham and New London has been working hard to get Windham to switch one of its elementary schools
over to a Montessori school.
In addition, Excel Bridgeport actively lobbied on behalf of Governor
Malloy's «
education reform» bill and the organization has also spent significant resources in support for Mayor Bill Finch's efforts to change Bridgeport's Charter, by eliminating the elected board of
education and replacing it was an appointed board that would allow stronger mayoral control
over the
education budget and school issues.
Long before Governor
Malloy's «
education reform» bill passed, the
Malloy Administration, Hartford Superintendent of Schools Christina Kishimoto and the Jumoke Academy had been scheming to hand
over Hartford's Thurman Milner School to the Jumoke Academy.