CT Post Editorial Page Editor Michael Daly shares observations about the need to build a new school to replace Harding High. Even though there’s been a complete turnaround in the power structure of the school board–the minority group that suffered one indignity after another at the hand of the Finch majority is now in charge–the […]
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Daly: Not A Time For Settling Scores And Seizing Power
March 1st, 2014 · 5 Comments · Development and Zoning, Education, News and Events
Tags: Bill Finch·CT Post·Harding High School·Michael Daly·Paul Vallas
Former School Board Member: Abusive Principal Should Have Been Canned
February 25th, 2014 · 6 Comments · Education, News and Events
“Trusting my children to someone like her is like trusting my child to a wild animal to be mauled,” former school board member Nereyda Robles writes in a statement to OIB, days after video capturing Tisdale School principal Carmen Perez Dickson dragging children down hallways was released publicly for the first time. Dickson was suspended […]
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Harding Hi Or Bye? School Board Jeopardizes Funds For New High School
February 21st, 2014 · 15 Comments · Development and Zoning, Education, News and Events
From Linda Conner Lambeck, CT Post: The city school board may have pushed the pause button, but the School Building Committee, made up of city council members, city and school officials and a couple of school board members, gave a unanimous thumbs up on Thursday to site plans for a new Harding High School to […]
Tags: CT Post·General Electric·Harding High School·Linda Conner Lambeck
Finch: Don’t Let Obstructionists Derail High School Project
February 17th, 2014 · 23 Comments · Education
In a commentary that also appears in the CT Post, Mayor Bill Finch urges the Board of Education to approve Boston Avenue property owned by General Electric as the new site of construction to replace Harding High School “instead of allowing a handful of obstructionists to play politics with the future and well-being of our […]
Tags: Bill Finch·CT Post·General Electric·Harding High School·Paul Vallas
Baraka On Sandra’s Kase, Wants Her Gagged For Speaking Out Against Principal That Dragged Children
February 25th, 2014 · 37 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Education, News and Events
Board of Education President Sauda Baraka wants Sandra Kase’s head after the school district’s chief administrative officer dared to reiterate what was already known, administrative leadership recommended the termination of Tisdale school principal Carmen Perez Dickson caught on film dragging kindergarten children down the hallway last year that triggered protests from parents when the school […]
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Tags: Jacqueline Kelleher·John Bagley·Paul Vallas·Sandra Kase·Sauda Baraka