Comments on: Even More Problems with No Bid Contracts! http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/08/09/even-more-problems-with-no-bid-contracts/ Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics Fri, 24 May 2013 18:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Linda174 http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/08/09/even-more-problems-with-no-bid-contracts/#comment-5830 Linda174 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:20:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=2699#comment-5830 Actually read all the comments Rich…sure they can leave a meeting after vapid compliments are passed around….just wait until he has been gone for a year or two….check out the status of Philly, NOLA and Chicago after he left. This isn’t reform…this is a traveling circus that rakes in the dough and then moves on to the next freak show.

My 7th graders could have taken the SDE press release and added a few quotes here and there, too.

]]> By: JMC http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/08/09/even-more-problems-with-no-bid-contracts/#comment-5828 JMC Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:34:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=2699#comment-5828 Yes Rich. Notice however the superb detailed comment posted from Lance Hill under the CTMirror article, which absolutely demolishes the Reformers’ claims with facts and uttery nullifies their position. It is a model for rebuttal.

]]> By: CT Essential Politics – Friday 08.10.12 - CT Devil's Advocate http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/08/09/even-more-problems-with-no-bid-contracts/#comment-5827 CT Essential Politics – Friday 08.10.12 - CT Devil's Advocate Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:29:35 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=2699#comment-5827 [...] Bob Frahm, CT Mirror Study Finds Teachers Improved After Evaluations - Yankee Institute Yikes! More Problems With No-Bid Ed Contracts - Jon Pelto, Wait, What? State Approves Rescue Plan For Four Struggling Schools - CT Mirror GOP [...]

]]> By: Rich White http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/08/09/even-more-problems-with-no-bid-contracts/#comment-5826 Rich White Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:57:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=2699#comment-5826 The CTMirror has a fawning and largely glowing bucket of praise on Vallas today.

Different people leave meetings with different opinions I guess……..

]]> By: Linda174 http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/08/09/even-more-problems-with-no-bid-contracts/#comment-5823 Linda174 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 03:20:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=2699#comment-5823 Yes, let’s educate this reporter…this appears to be nothing more than a press release

]]> By: R.L. http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/08/09/even-more-problems-with-no-bid-contracts/#comment-5822 R.L. Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:31:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=2699#comment-5822 Our society is diseased.  How did it get so thoroughly corrupt?

]]> By: guest http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/08/09/even-more-problems-with-no-bid-contracts/#comment-5821 guest Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:20:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=2699#comment-5821 Thanks for linking this piece of pablum, Jumangi.  It forms a counterpart to DeStefano’s quote:  “Just because something is illegal (as the CT Supreme Court ruled re: the state-appointed Board of Education in Bridgeport) doesn’t make it wrong.”  This sums up the opinion of SBE member Charles Jaskiewicz. 
Unfortunately, there is so much wrong with the SBE breaking the law, the board continuing to exist, and Paul Vallas being hired as Superintendent.  The journalist is clearly incapable of doing even a basic google search on Paul Vallas.

]]> By: Jumangi http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/08/09/even-more-problems-with-no-bid-contracts/#comment-5820 Jumangi Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:54:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=2699#comment-5820 http://ctmirror.org/story/17160/bridgeport-school-reformer-cites-progress

I’m sure you were avoiding this story on purpose, but I figured I would link it here…it’s in need of some comments.

]]> By: Jumangi http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/08/09/even-more-problems-with-no-bid-contracts/#comment-5819 Jumangi Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:44:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=2699#comment-5819  I thought the same thing when I read that article. 

]]> By: guest http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/08/09/even-more-problems-with-no-bid-contracts/#comment-5818 guest Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:26:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=2699#comment-5818 Off-topic, but this has to be the quote of the day:  “Just because something is legal, doesn’t make it right,” Mayor John DeStefano of New Haven.

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