Comments on: The Vallas Jobs Program: Connecticut Residents Need Not Apply

By: Bronx

Bronx — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:20:00 +0000

It’s amazing that you are this delusional Mr. Klaus. So New Orleans ranking near the bottom of the state is a promising direction? So one arbitrary student a big business owned newspaper props up as a success story makes up for charters bilking millions from taxpayers, taking away constitutional rights from pretty much everyone that didn’t have a relationship with Paul Vallas, and failing the overwhelming majority of the rest of the students? And since when do systems that are ‘student and parent centered” pay hundreds of thousands in salary to thousand dollar suit wearing administrators with bogus titles while leaving the scraps for children?
I’m wondering how deluded you are on a few other topics…Do you think Stefan Pryor was really named the Commissioner of Education based on his ability and experience level? Do you really consider your wife an altruist, instead of a opportunistic vulture? Do you think Concann receiving a “Bunkum” award from the University of Colorado, for their ridiculous education reform notions was a “mistake?” And finally Mr. Klaus, do you think all teachers boycotting Webster Bank, after you have disparaged them, would be good for business??? Perhaps that is a question that can be asked to James C. Smith, CEO of Webster Bank, directly…

By: Linda174

Linda174 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:35:00 +0000

See previous two posts by Jon…see Klaus statements and readers reactions.
Klaus is married to charter management chain CEO and regularly posts demeaning comments about public schools, public school teachers, adminstrators, etc. He is a senior VP at Webster Bank. He recently posted:

“Have you no responsibility for the education of children other than showing up in the morning at some building.”

If you read the two articles before this one the post will make more sense. I am not leaving my hard earned public school teacher earnings in a bank where their executives display disrespect for public schools and their teachers. His posts drip with disdain.

By: Guyfromconn

Guyfromconn — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:02:00 +0000

I don’t understand this posting.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:23:00 +0000

Three years–that’s too long.
We need to try to substantiate this. Having private emails is a typical ploy to avoid FOI requirements. But if it is possible to show that Pryor and other employees of the state are using their private email accounts for official business, then their private email and cell phone records would become subject to FOI.

By: Linda174

Linda174 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:13:00 +0000

Letters of concern and/or details as to why you are closing your Webster account should be directed to:

James C. Smith
Webster Bank, CEO
Office of the President
145 Bank Street
Waterbury, CT 06702

By: Linda174

Linda174 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:49:00 +0000

Heard it in conversation with a DOE employee…testing division….say he is non communicative except those he hired…very little dept. unity…they give him three years. They know never to stay long enough to be held accountable for their decisions…just keep moving and scheming.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:39:00 +0000

Clearly he is a liar. Look at his background! Recall the banking scandals–which occur all the time, by the way, but the most recent ones relating to the sub-prime deals, later bailed out by tax payers. Klaus has been through all of this.
Note the move from “mortgage” markets, especially the scandals of lending to the working poor in many cities–those people lost everything, but it was the banks that got bailed out. Wall Streeters and corporate types then tried to grab social security, but it hasn’t worked out. Now their eyes are on school children–lots of public money to steal from that pot.
His wife, Dacia Toll, is rakng it in as head of a charter management organization, and her ties to Pryor go way back.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:34:00 +0000

Do you have more info on the gmail accounts? Maybe we should work on this angle.
I have some articles relating to Pryor’s New York years… perhaps by putting two and two together, we can document more clearly the secrecy and the creeping privatization.

By: Buygoldandprosper

Buygoldandprosper — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:43:00 +0000

Sounds very much like Kathy Malloy and her job in Hartford,passing out state money. Sometimes the right people for the right job are just…there. One does not have to open up the process to qualified people in one of the worst economies of modern times. And everyone knows that the Nutmeg State is full of undereducated malcontents.
As an aside,the posting for the new head of the CCEDA ( $150-225K per year) has over 80 applicants already! I wonder who will “get” that job? They have to have visions (I may have gotten that wrong) and be able to pass the buck,as it were.
See CarreerBuilder if you are interested:
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job_did=J3G6XS6WFZ79XSVHWRV

By: Linda174

Linda174 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:27:00 +0000

Yes, with new fancy titles and little if any have ever taught. Many former Yale connections and very secretive…separate gmail accounts for secret emailing. There is a counter state DOE office within the CTDOE.

Said it before will say it again…the Bloomberg play book..chapter five of the
Ravitch book..the NYC business model. The goal is less local control, more appointed boards, less transparency, more special masters, appointed supers, supers with Broad training and no teaching experience. Teachers are burdens and kids are cattle represented by test numbers. Break down the spirit of the experienced teahing force…bring in TFA types, malleable newbies to train for test prep, stay 3-5 years, constant turn over, keep a few experienced teachers for appearance sake, pay them a little more, give then a fancy title so they feel good about themselves, create a cheap labor force, save on salaries and pensions, increase adminstrative positions to oversee the revolving door of innocent, shell shocked teachers. Welcome to the test prep factory otherwise touted as the reform movement. And if the test score gap narrows it will be because our high performers leave the public school systems or they are drilled to stupidity. The high performer results decrease…minority increase slightly….POOF! We narrowed the achievement gap. Hooray for the deform movement!