http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/05/whose-money-paid-for-the-education-reformers-effort-to-influence-the-outcome-of-connecticut-5th-legislative-district/ Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics Thu, 23 May 2013 11:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/05/whose-money-paid-for-the-education-reformers-effort-to-influence-the-outcome-of-connecticut-5th-legislative-district/#comment-7008 Apartheid First Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:36:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3041#comment-7008 That’s Sheff. Right, we can’t expect bigotry to end anytime soon.

]]> http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/05/whose-money-paid-for-the-education-reformers-effort-to-influence-the-outcome-of-connecticut-5th-legislative-district/#comment-7006 Rich White Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:34:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3041#comment-7006 Wait until Scheff goes back to court in 2013 and the CREC is tasked with creating a truly regional system from the surrounding burbs and the admiistrative lawsuits and union lawsuits start flying.

]]> http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/05/whose-money-paid-for-the-education-reformers-effort-to-influence-the-outcome-of-connecticut-5th-legislative-district/#comment-7001 Apartheid First Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:55:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3041#comment-7001 Read this post from the answer sheet–a superintendent is going to prison for manipulating numbers and for “weeding out” students who would not do well on standardized tests!!! Next to jail–Adamowski? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2012/10/05/cheating-scandal-lands-ex-schools-chief-in-prison/
Also, why aren’t charter schools being arrested for this? They do it all the time.

]]> http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/05/whose-money-paid-for-the-education-reformers-effort-to-influence-the-outcome-of-connecticut-5th-legislative-district/#comment-7000 Apartheid First Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:31:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3041#comment-7000 Thank you for reminding us of the bad old days.

]]> http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/05/whose-money-paid-for-the-education-reformers-effort-to-influence-the-outcome-of-connecticut-5th-legislative-district/#comment-6993 Charlie Puffers Sat, 06 Oct 2012 09:19:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3041#comment-6993 Yes. the state did such a great job. At one point they had the city paying 4 superintendents at the same time: Matthew Borrelli, Patricia Daniel, Benjamin Dixon, and Anthony Amato while still paying off EAI.

]]> http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/05/whose-money-paid-for-the-education-reformers-effort-to-influence-the-outcome-of-connecticut-5th-legislative-district/#comment-6986 Apartheid First Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:42:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3041#comment-6986 The horrifying thing is that all of this is probably “legal.” Pryor was on Achievement First’s board until the day he took the CT commish job.
Hot tubs, kitchen re-dos, renovations, it’s hard to believe that such small change got Johnny, Eddie, Ganim, etc., in trouble.

]]> http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/05/whose-money-paid-for-the-education-reformers-effort-to-influence-the-outcome-of-connecticut-5th-legislative-district/#comment-6983 Rich White Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:07:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3041#comment-6983 It’s almost unfair to discuss the 1993-2000 era in Hartford schools isn’t it? The state took over in 1997. There was the rejecting of the newly hired Hispanic superintendent Duroy by the Greater Hartford African American Alliance claiming racism preferring instead the singularly incompetent African American woman Patricia Daniels? Daniels lasted less than a year on the job before her ineptitude became obvious to all? And this was after the failed Educational Alternatives Inc Schools experiment and privatization attempt of 1993-1996 which was opposed by the unions? There was that great sotry of Lewis Fox Middle Schools ahve boxes of computers stting in storage because no one knew how to use them?
The fact the school board didn’t kill each other during open meetings was considered a successful milestone and the earmark of a newer, more civilized era of Hartford School reform?

]]> http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/05/whose-money-paid-for-the-education-reformers-effort-to-influence-the-outcome-of-connecticut-5th-legislative-district/#comment-6982 R.L. Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:53:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3041#comment-6982 It won’t. The government belongs to them, not us. Government of the corporation for the corporation. We are all peasants and pee-ons.

]]> http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/05/whose-money-paid-for-the-education-reformers-effort-to-influence-the-outcome-of-connecticut-5th-legislative-district/#comment-6981 George Peterman Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:37:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3041#comment-6981 While Furek can lay claim to getting Hartford’s financial house in order while he served there, the test scores actually went down during his tenure. Since the standardized test scores are what these people are all about, that means he failed.
ConnCAN Chief Operating Officer Ann Marcucio, came directly from the American Federation of Children, the “education reform” group wiht a legacy of illegal activity. This is the same group that operated in Ohio under the name of “All Children Matter” and was fined 5.2 million dollars for violating election laws in that state. She has a deep and well-documented connection to Scott Jensen, her cohort at the AFC who managed to escape felony misconduct charges as a legislator in Wisconsin (he made a deal that ordered him to pay the costs of the case and forbade him from holding elected office). Jensen was involved in the AFC’s attempts to gerymander in Wisonsin (the Alberta Darling scandal – piles of emails that were released by court order had Jensen and other AFC operatives all over them) is well-documented. They were both national lobbyists for the AFC and worked together on their yearbook of all things (isn’t that cute? It’s available on line). The AFC, clearly right-wing, dumped over $110 grand into the Wisconsin Democratic primaries in order to defete candidates they saw as problematic in their quest to kill the unions and promote charters and vouchers. ConnCAN is doing the same thing that the AFC did in Wisconsin: fund a particular Democratic candidate in order to defete the candidate that you see as the opposition. Small coincidence that Leo Canty is the Second VP of the American Federation of Teachers?
So when does the investigation begin? When does this corrupt, miserable government actually serve the people that pay for it?

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