Friends in high places = lots of money!
Listen carefully and you may hear that sound of charter school management company executives rubbing their hands together in anticipation of tomorrow’s Connecticut State Board of Education meeting....
View ArticleMalloy’s new charter schools – 1st up the Booker T. Washington Charter School...
Time to review the facts surrounding Malloy’s new charter schools… Number #1: The Booker T. Washington Charter School. The Booker T. Washington School may very well be Connecticut’s first foray into...
View ArticleWill Bridgeport learn from the Michael Sharpe and Jumoke/FUSE disaster?
As more and more facts come out about Michael Sharpe, the CEO of the Jumoke/FUSE Charter School Management company, parents, public school advocates and the taxpayers of Bridgeport and Connecticut are...
View ArticlePelto to Malloy – Dump Pryor and Comer now before they do even more damage to...
Pelto to Malloy: Dump Pryor and Comer now before they do even more damage to public education in Connecticut: Jonathan Pelto, the Education and Democracy Party’s candidate for governor called on...
View ArticleWho me? Pryor calls for an investigation of Jumoke Academy/FUSE charter...
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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleMalloy and Pryor: The Connecticut Charter School Debacle Expands
Thanks to Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, Connecticut’s charter school industry has been sucking up tens of millions of dollars in public funds that could...
View ArticleCharter Advocates Give New Meaning To ‘Chutzpah’ (by Sarah Darer Littman)
Charter Advocates Give New Meaning To ‘Chutzpah’ (CT Newsjunkie) Sarah Darer Littman, pro-public school advocate, award winning columnist and parent has written one of the most powerful commentary...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the end for the Charter School Industry in Connecticut
Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy ushered in the Charter School Industry to Connecticut as part of his corporate education reform initiative in 2012. As part of his “education reforms,” Malloy became the...
View ArticleYou can trust us; we’re from the charter schools (Guest Post by Wendy Lecker)
This truth about the charter school industry grows every day. Today’s contribution can be found in an investigative story in the New York Times entitled, A Star-Powered School Sputters. The article...
View ArticleJumoke Charter School Company back in the news due to missing computers
The disgraced charter school company that got tens of millions of taxpayer dollars thanks to no-bid contracts from the Malloy administration is back in the news. Apparently the constant flow of checks...
View ArticleConnCAN yelps response to Sarah Darer Littman’s Commentary piece
Provides stunning argument as to why Malloy does not deserve four more years! Over this past weekend, public education advocate and CT NewsJunkie columnist Sarah Darer Littman published a scathing...
View ArticleBridgeport principal brought in by Jumoke’s “Dr.” Michael Sharpe arrested for...
When Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education and Malloy’s political appointees to the Connecticut State Board of Education voted to hand Bridgeport’s Dunbar Elementary School over to...
View ArticleFUSE re-lights Connecticut’s Charter School Scandals
Before the Hartford Courant revealed that the CEO of the FUSE/Jumoke Charter School Chain wasn’t the “Dr.” he claimed to be and had served time in prison for embezzling money from a public agency in...
View ArticleWhat’s missing from the damning Jumoke/FUSE report – Part 1
Released late Friday afternoon (January 2, 2015) to ensure minimal media coverage, the report issued by the investigator appointed by Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education and his political...
View ArticleWhen an Education Reformer says “Turnaround” — Don’t!
Education Advocate Wendy Lecker has another column out and it is once again in the “MUST READ” category. Her latest piece is part one of a multi-series takedown of those who use fiction rather than...
View ArticleMalloy gives Charter School Industry another seat on the CT State Board of...
A News Update from Jonathan Pelto and Wendy Lecker While Connecticut’s public schools continue to suffer from inadequate state funding and Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration strive to...
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