Violating the new school chief hiring process, school board members defying self-evaluation reports and standoffish to training schedules as required by directives from the Connecticut
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Category: Education
What A Mess: State Orders School Board To Halt Superintendent Search – Didn’t Comply With Directive
A few months ago the Connecticut Board of Education authorized state Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker broad authority to direct Bridgeport’s troubled school district on a new course,
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School Board Vice Chair: Education Under Attack, Fund City Schools
Joe Sokolovic, vice chair of the Bridgeport Board of Education, issued this testimony to the state legislature’s Appropriations Committee in an appeal for more funds
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State Education Commissioner: We Are A Partner In Change On Behalf Of City Schools
Connecticut Commissioner of Education Charlene Russell-Tucker shares this commentary on the role she is playing to lift up local schools. Bridgeport Public Schools currently faces
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A No Show – Janene Hawkins’ Sneaky Double Dip For City And School District Positions Banks A Personal Windfall
She has filed a complaint with the Connecticut health department claiming “unsafe and inhumane” working conditions in Bridgeport, but for about an eight-week period starting in
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Going To Election School On The Board Of Education
So much going on in Bridgeport’s school district: financial woes, leadership changes, board infighting, state education board monitoring the situation, even calls for a complete
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Columnist: Education ‘Intervention’ In Bridgeport Is Cover For A State Bailout
Veteran columnist and OIB friend Chris Powell shares this commentary about the state’s intervention in Bridgeport’s financially struggling school system: Last week Governor Lamont and
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The School Board’s Purgatory Period
Tiheba Williams-Bain, a Democrat, is the latest school board member to resign and, going out the door, called for a state takeover that would banish
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