Resilient, resourceful, creative, Harding High School’s Sheena Graham on Tuesday was named Connecticut’s 2019 Teacher of the Year. News release from Governor Dan Malloy: Governor Dannel P. Malloy and State Department of Education Commissioner Dianna R. Wentzell today announced that Mrs. Sheena Graham, a performing arts and choir teacher at Bridgeport’s Warren Harding High School, […]
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Harding’s Sheena Graham Shines As Connecticut’s Teacher Of Year
October 16th, 2018 · 9 Comments · Education, News and Events, Uncategorized
Federal Judge Dismisses Charter School Advocate Lawsuit
October 9th, 2018 · 16 Comments · Education, News and Events
Board of Education member Jessica Martinez as the lead plaintiff has lost a federal lawsuit seeking a constitutional right to attend a charter school in the matter of Martinez versus Malloy. Charter schools are publicly funded but operate independently of traditional school districts. Bridgeport has six charters schools, the most in Connecticut.
Tags: Jessica Martinez
State Senate Candidate Deecken: Education Is An Economic Driver
October 8th, 2018 · 13 Comments · Education, News and Events, State Politics
Rich Deecken, a Bassick High School history teacher running for State Senate in the 22nd District against incumbent Marilyn Moore, issued the following statement regarding education policy in Connecticut: A world class education system is an economic driver. Years ago, talent would move to where businesses were located to obtain employment. Now businesses are moving […]
Tags: Marilyn Moore·Rich Deecken
A Charter School Trolls For Students To Fill Seats
September 17th, 2018 · 19 Comments · Education, News and Events
Bridgeport leads the state in charter schools that operate independently of traditional education districts. The debate rages between charter school supporters who embrace more choices and opponents who declare they suck financial oxygen from local school budgets. One charter in Bridgeport stands to lose $11,250 for each seat unfilled by Oct. 1.
Tags: CT Post·Linda Conner Lambeck
State Official: New Harding Site Safe And Clean
September 7th, 2018 · 4 Comments · Development and Zoning, Education, News and Events
From Linda Conner Lambeck, CT Post: The lead, arsenic and petroleum-based chemicals have been removed or buried.
Lamont Chides Stefanowski’s Tax ‘Scheme’–Pledges City Education Investment
September 4th, 2018 · 11 Comments · Education, News and Events, State Politics
Democratic candidate for governor Ned Lamont who calls his Republican opponent Bob Stefanowski’s tax plan dishonest and devastating to public education asserts he will implement “the education funding formula as it was written–based on need–so we can address the disparities that are present in our educational system.” Lamont has promised to increase state education funding to […]
Tags: Bob Stefanowski·Ned Lamont
New Harding High School–A ‘Showstopper’–Brightens East Side
August 23rd, 2018 · 38 Comments · Education, News and Events
This place is fit for presidents, and more importantly students. City and education officials on Thursday cut the ribbon to the iconic new Harding High School on the East Side, a $106 million gem years in the making guided under the former mayoral administration of Bill Finch from property donated by General Electric on a […]
Tags: Aresta Johnson·Bill Finch·General Electric·Jim Himes·Joe Ganim·John Bagley·Larry Schilling·Ruben Felipe