OIB friend, past CC member and past council president Lisa Parziale comments on the state of Bridgeport city management by both the mayor and City Council, and encourages others to get involved to fix the problems. December 2015 ended two terms of leadership under former Mayor Bill Finch, and the torch was then passed to […]
Entries Categorized as 'Education'
Parziale Sums It Up
September 27th, 2016 · 21 Comments · City Council, City Politics, Education, Law Enforcement
Tags: Bill Finch·CT Post·Joe Ganim·John Fabrizi·Lisa "Honey" Parziale·Mike Freimuth
Lifelong Republican Baffled By Republican Participation In BOE Boycott
September 26th, 2016 · 37 Comments · City Politics, Education, News and Events
Lifelong Republican and recent OIB commenter Joseph Sokolovic is baffled by the Republican participation in the BOE boycott, and suspects a nefarious (or just business as usual in Bridgeport) plot. Strange Bedfellows, indeed. They say politics make strange bedfellows. Never has this been more true than when it comes to the recent events at the […]
Tags: Dennis Bradley
Show Me The Money???!!!
September 25th, 2016 · 22 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Education, Law Enforcement, News and Events
Financial watchdog John Marshal Lee reports on the Community March in Solidarity With Our Police Department held Saturday, and questions the absence of support for education. SHOW ME THE MONEY???!!! This afternoon a “Community March in Solidarity With Our Police Department” walked a few blocks from New Hope Missionary Baptist Church at 100 Park Ave. […]
Tags: Angel DePara·Joe Ganim·John Gomes·John Marshall Lee·John Olson·M. Evette Brantley·Tom McCarthy
Bridgeport Deserves Better: A Prayerful Demonstration
September 23rd, 2016 · 25 Comments · Education, News and Events
News release from FAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION: WHAT: Bridgeport Deserves Better: A Prayerful Demonstration WHEN: Monday, September 26, 2016, 6:00pm WHERE: Geraldine Johnson School, 475 Lexington Ave, Bridgeport, CT WHO: FaithActs for Education, a non-partisan, faith-based organization dedicated to improving education for all children.
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Lee To Council: Use The Unanticipated State Money To Reinstate The Laid-off Kindergarten Paraprofessionals
September 22nd, 2016 · 40 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Education
Tuesday night citizen fiscal watchdog John Marshall Lee asked the City Council to allocate the recent unanticipated and therefore not yet budgeted State Municipal Revenue Sharing to the BOE to reinstate the laid-off paraprofessionals. “… think instead of a five-year-old girl or boy standing here in their third week of school in Bridgeport without the […]
Pereira Files Lawsuit Challenging Ganim’s School Board Appointment
September 19th, 2016 · 19 Comments · City Politics, Education, News and Events
UPDATE: Hearing continued until Segarra-Negron can be made a party to the action. UPDATE: Court complaint here. Board of Education member Maria Pereira on Monday (September 12) filed a lawsuit against Mayor Joe Ganim asserting his recent school board appointment of Republican Annette Segarra-Negron to fill out the term of Dave Hennessey violates Connecticut law and the Bridgeport […]
Tags: Andre Baker·Chris Meyer·David Hennessey·Joe Ganim·Maria Pereira