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Sarah Darer Littman reminded readers that while Governor Malloy and the corporate education reform industry are fond of claiming their reforms are all about the children, the reality is far from that.

It is certainly Orwellian to learn that while Governor Malloy's new education reform bill will judge my child's teacher on the students» CMT scores; the state is telling me that I shouldn't make educational decisions about my own child based on the same CMT results.

While Governor Malloy's proposal to ban collective bargaining at Commissioner's Network schools is appalling and inappropriate, the notion of turning a public district school over to a charter school company should be rejected because, despite what Mr. Green claims, Connecticut's charter schools DO NOT have a proven track record when it comes to serving the broader community.

It is worth repeating that while Governor Malloy and Commission Pryor claim that federal and state laws trump parental rights when it comes to taking the Common Core Standardized Tests, there are no federal or state laws that prohibit parents from opting their children out of the Common Core Tests nor is there any law that allows schools to punish parents or students for opting out of the tests.

Not exact matches

Recently Christ Christie had a feud with Connecticut's governor Dannel Malloy who criticized him for refusing to fund billions in pensions while Christie criticized Malloy for raising taxes.

«We need to win back the middle - class while pushing progressive values,» Cuomo said at a private dinner that included fellow governors Dannel Malloy, Jay Inslee, John Hickenlooper and Terry McAuliffe, according to a person who attended, before reviewing the «Middle Class Recovery Act» he's currently pushing in Albany.

At issue are three competing plans: One introduced by Democratic Governor Daniel Malloy, another introduced by legislative Republicans, and a partial fix that was tabled a while back by the Democratic leaders in the legislature.

outlined the fact that while many of Connecticut's urban schools are woefully underfunded, Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor were able to find $ 25 million in state bonding to buy computers so that more of Connecticut's students can be forced to take the ill - conceived Common Core Tests.

While Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy was one of the original plaintiffs in the case, upon being sworn in as Governor Dannel Malloy, the self - described education proponent completely reversed his position and has spent that last five years wasting precious time and taxpayer funds in his concerted effort o delay, derail and destroy what is probably the most important Connecticut legal case in our lifetimes.

In the case of Florida, the name was changed to the Florida Standards Assessment, while in Connecticut Governor Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly replaced the term «Common Core» with the softer, gentler notion that our state's students were being buried by the, «Common Core State Standards in Connecticut.»

While Cuomo has poured more money into charter schools than Malloy, Malloy is the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and proposing legislation that would unilaterally eliminate collective bargaining for teachers in turnaround schools.

While charter school funding is the fastest growing area of Governor Malloy's education budget, the evidence is clear that Connecticut's charter schools are consistently failing to provide educational opportunities to special education students and students who need extra help with the English language.

While suspensions were shockingly high in some urban areas, the magnitude of suspensions was the most extreme at the charter schools run by Achievement First, the charter school management company that was co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education.

Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and his sidekick and aide, former Achievement First principal Morgan Barth, are pushing the ethical envelope ever further while telegraphing where Malloy really stands when it comes to teachers, parents and public education in Connecticut.

While Democrat legislators are strangely silent on Governor Malloy's latest attack on teachers and the teaching profession, Republicans in the State Senate, led by State Senator Toni Boucher, the ranking member of the Education Committee is speaking out about Malloy's bizarre veto of a bill requiring that the Commissioner of Education have some classroom experience.

While a portion of the blame rests with the unprecedented Citizens United decision by the United States Supreme Court, in which companies were determined to be people for the purposes of campaign finance laws, Connecticut's present campaign laws, along with their appearance of corruption, rests on the shoulders of Governor Malloy and the Democrats in the Legislature.

While Governor Dannel Malloy receives accolades for his «Second Chance» initiative, the truth about his administration's discriminatory policies speak louder than its rhetoric.

While wooing teachers with false promises of a change in policy here at home, Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy and his administration continue to trumpet their Corporate Education Reform Industry Agenda far from the gaze of Connecticut voters.

While Connecticut's state budget approval process is far from over, the Connecticut General Assembly's Appropriations Committee has made some significant changes to Governor Dannel Malloy's proposed state budget including deleting some of Malloy's $ 80 million in cuts to public schools and reducing Malloy's plan to INCREASE charter school funding by more than 25 percent.

Diane Ravitch correctly points out that these teachers were career professionals that all belonged to a union, some of them had tenure, while others were working toward tenure... AND THAT ALL OF THEM were negatively impacted by legislation proposed by Governor Malloy.

While it may be true that Plan B was Malloy's «response» to the original failure of the Malloy / SEBAC agreement to get sufficient votes, the Governor (and Legislature) could have and should have proposed alternatives to cutting Connecticut's fuel assistance program.

While the NEW SAT will make its appearance in all of Connecticut's high schools in March, the truly unsettling reality is that the Connecticut General Assembly passed and Governor Malloy signed into law a requirement that every high school junior take the NEW SAT next spring and that those students be judged by a test that is being redesigned and aligned to the Common Core, that no one has seen and that will almost certainly test students on content that they haven't even learned.

While Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's budget fails to properly fund public schools in Connecticut it does provide for an increase in the number of privately run charter schools.

Massachusetts and New York will now join 15 other states that have decided to reconsider their involvement with the Common Core while Connecticut's Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor plan to stay the course and do not plan to make any changes in the implementation of Common Core.

When Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy addressed a joint session of the Connecticut General Assembly ninety days ago to present his proposed state budget, he called for record cuts to Connecticut's public schools while demanding the legislature increase funding for charter schools by more than 25 percent.

And while Malloy noted that Erik Clemons is founding CEO and President of Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology, Inc. (ConnCAT), the Governor failed to explain that the company has a major contract funded through the Department of Education.

Bronin's Communications Director, Andrew Doba, who served as Governor Dannel Malloy's mouthpiece until this past January, is behind an expensive, glossy mass mailing that is being sent to voters across Connecticut to «thank» Connecticut legislators for successfully funding the new charter schools while utterly failing to adequately fund Connecticut public schools, including those in Hartford.

These pass / fail «cut scores» were adopted by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium in November 2014 with Governor Malloy's administration voting in favor of the «cut scores,» while the representatives of the governors» of Vermont and New Hampshire (the other two SBAC states in New England) abstained in the vote, refusing to support the discriminatory pass / fail «cut scores.»)

Like some type of gigantic octopus, the pro-charter school, pro-common core, pro-SBAC testing scheme and anti-teacher corporate education reform industry has set up multiple front groups while dumping more than $ 7.9 million dollars into their lobbying effort on behalf of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's «education reform» initiatives.

Governor Dannel Malloy already gives Connecticut's charter school more than $ 110 million a year and this year, while proposing the deepest cuts in state history to public schools, Malloy unveiled a plan to increase that amount by about 10 percent.

In their most recent state budget plan, Governor Malloy and Lt. Governor Wyman proposed giving charter schools more money while, at the same time, proposing the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools.

So how on earth did we go from having one of the «best» campaign finance reform laws in the nation to a campaign in which Malloy gets $ 6.2 million in public funds, while accessing another $ 10 million or more in campaign donations including money from state contractors and others who personally benefit from the governor's policies.

While legislators are going into special session, cities and towns across Connecticut are cutting local public school programs as a result of the inadequate education funding that is part of the state budget that was agreed upon in a deal between Governor Dannel Malloy and Democratic legislators earlier this month.

Andrea Comer, the former COO of Jumoke / FUSE charter school company has resigned her position on the State Board of Education, while the Bridgeport Board of Education prepares to end ties with Jumoke / FUSE, the charter school company that was given a lucrative no - bid contract to run Bridgeport's Dunbar Elementary School thanks to Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor and Paul Vallas, the ousted former head of Bridgeport's Schools.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy — While most governors on this list are Republicans, Democrat Malloy shows that Republicans don't have a monopoly on gubernatorial stupidity.

Until tonight, observers could safely say that the single most outrageous political maneuver during Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's tenure has been his claim that he was pro-public education while being the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in so - called «turnaround» schools.

While the State of Connecticut spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in our urban school districts, as required by Connecticut's Constitution and Courts, Governor Dannel Malloy is pumping more than $ 100 million a year into Connecticut Charter Schools despite the fact that they have become a primary vehicle for the segregation of our public school system.

Tomorrow — February 24, 2016 — the Connecticut General Assembly's Education Committee will be holding a public hearing on legislation that Governor Malloy and Lt. Governor Wyman submitted as part of their destructive proposed state budget, a spending plan that that coddles the rich while making massive cuts to vital health, human service and education programs.

The truth is that Governor Malloy's 2016 budget proposal includes plans to cut Connecticut's public schools by approximately $ 58 million while increasing state aid to his pet - project, the privately owned and operated charter schools.

While making record cuts to public schools and human services the Hartford Courant is reporting that Connecticut's Democratic legislative leaders have caved in to Governor Malloy and agreed to force their follow Democrats in the legislature to vote in favor of giving two more charter school companies the money they want to open schools in Bridgeport and Stamford.

While Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration misleads, lies and threatens parents, teachers and school administrators in an unethical attempt to derail the opt out movement in the Constitution State; public officials in other states actually take action to respect the will of their constituents.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry has spent a record - breaking $ 6,767,957 plus in support of Governor Malloy's «education reform» agenda ------ An Agenda that includes forcing the Common Core and the Common Core testing scheme on Connecticut's public schools while cutting taxpayer support for public education and increasing public funding for privately owned and operated charter schools.

While Connecticut's public schools continue to suffer from inadequate state funding and Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration strive to undermine, dismiss and destroy the CCJEF school funding lawsuit that would finally ensure that Connecticut meets its State Constitutional obligation to provide all students with a quality education, Malloy's corporate education reform initiative has fueled an unprecedented growth of charter schools in Connecticut.

As a result of Governor Malloy's budget and corporate education reform agenda, while Connecticut public school students, teachers and schools are reeling from their deepest cuts in state history, charter school companies in the state will collect more than $ 110 million from Connecticut taxpayers, this year.

At yesterday's State Board of Education meeting (June 1, 2016)-RRB-, Governor Malloy's appointees voted to allocate even more funding for charter schools, while pretending their primary responsibility to adequately fund public schools wasn't being undermined by Malloy's actions.

The well - financed charter school advocacy group is the organization that is paying for the television ads promoting Governor Dannel Malloy's proposed state budget that makes historic cuts to public education while dramatically increasing funding for charter schools.

While it remains unclear whether Governor Dannel Malloy's new education funding scheme includes a «money follows the child formula» that would force local districts to use local tax dollars to subsidize the privately owned and operated charter schools in their communities, the Governor's budget does shovel even more state taxpayer funds to the charter school industry.

Calling themselves a «grassroots movement» in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's plan to use taxpayer money to open two new charter schools while making historic cuts to Connecticut's public schools, the New York based charter school industry group known as «Families for Excellent Schools Inc. / Coalition for Every Child» paid at least $ 87,000 to rent buses to bring in charter school parents and students from as far away as New York and Boston for the pro-charter school rally that took place at the Connecticut State Capitol last week.

While friends can disagree on even the most important issues, it is shameful that Malloy's challengers weren't given the opportunity to make their case to AFT members as to why students, parents, teachers and all of public education would be better off with a new governor,» Pelto concluded.

While Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration consistently claim safe schools and fostering positive school climates are a top priority, they have, yet again, failed to fulfill their legal duty to issue the Connecticut School Climate Report.