Comments on: Malloy’s Former Interim Education Commissioner Lands a Plum Job

By: guest

guest — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:35:00 +0000

Nice satire! Where is Jonathan Swift when you need him?

By: Buygoldandprosper

Buygoldandprosper — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:04:00 +0000

And why not? The Papists are now in charge and I thought I even read that Dan’s “modest proposal” said something to the effect that a healthy young child,well tested,is a most delicious profit for the knowledge industry’s bottom line!

By: guest

guest — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:12:00 +0000

Retirement, even quitting, should not affect one’s ability to receive a paycheck, especially if it is from the state or city. So, the ex-superintendent of Bridgeport schools, John Ramos, who “quit” last summer, was Bridgeport’s top wage earner nonetheless… http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/ca-ching-ramos-cops-lead-highest-2011-city-wage-earners/#more-31629

By: guest

guest — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:06:00 +0000

Perhaps it is wrong to blame the whole school for things like this http://www.sacredheart.edu/pages/41097_education_prof_jacqueline_kelleher_chosen_to_present_at_aera_conference.cfm

It is disheartening to see them celebrating merit assessments of teachers, and the international models being implemented in Bridgeport–what do they mean? Vallas’s Haitian and Chilean work?

By: Castles Burning

Castles Burning — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:06:00 +0000

Would you please explain what you mean by “hit[ting] the jackpot with their alternative educational programs. Thank you.

By: Buygoldandprosper

Buygoldandprosper — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:28:00 +0000

Great how the rest of the unwashed masses get retirement/laid-off and live in poverty while Coleman and others get post-retirement job offers.
Say! Another example is Kathy Malloy…odd that in the worst economy of modern times she got a job that was twice her previous salary and pretty much way beyond her skill set,in Hartford of all places passing out state money. How did she do that? Sort of makes Coleman look like a piker!

By: Brutus2011

Brutus2011 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:27:00 +0000

‘Who you know’ is how one becomes and prospers out of the classroom. It is one of the dirty little secrets of education. Unfortunately it is so ingrained in our education system that I hold little hope that things will change unless something huge occurs.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:33:00 +0000

Oh, by the way, I am starting to think that Sacred Heart University is School Reform Central. They have hit the jackpot with their alternative educational programs. And now there is one of their profs shilling on the Bridgeport BoE.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:31:00 +0000

Coleman should not go away and enjoy his retirement. His last acts as a state employee were to take over Bridgeport and to assign a Special Master in Windham, effectively taking Windham over. Now New London is about to be taken over, too. What Coleman deserves for these dastardly deeds could only be envisioned by Dante…
Coleman was a petty tyrant while acting commissioner. Now he gets his big payoff.
I do think that there needs to be some bar on receiving a pension and then going back to work.

By: Buygoldandprosper

Buygoldandprosper — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:56:00 +0000

In a word–sickening.

Coleman should just go away and enjoy his retirement.He made a mess of things but feels a need to continue doing so?
Yuk!