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From Mayor Bill Finch: Donation campaign seeks 2,800 iPads–1 for each after-school and summer program student Do you have a used iPad collecting dust in your home because you recently upgraded to the New iPad? If so, the City of Bridgeport’s Lighthouse After School and Summer Program hopes you’ll consider donating your gently used iPad [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Education'
Support The Lighthouse Program–Send Your iPads
May 7th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Best of Bridgeport, Education
Tags: Bill Finch
Kohut Screams For Tax Strike
May 1st, 2012 · 12 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, Education
Jeff Kohut, 2011 independent mayoral candidate, is calling on fellow taxpayers to join him in a tax strike as the City Council prepares to vote on Mayor Bill Finch’s budget that proposes to sock the average homeowner more than 400 clams to help finance $7 million more for city schools. Kohut writes in an OIB [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Jeff Kohut·Tom McCarthy
Vallas At Budget Hearing Urges $7 Million More For Schools–Others Demand Cuts
April 27th, 2012 · 15 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, Education
Facing a relatively tame audience of education advocates seeking more school aid and taxpayers exhorting budget cuts, the City Council’s Budget and Appropriations Committee Thursday night heard from about one dozen speakers addressing Mayor Bill Finch’s proposed spending plan that calls for a 2.7 mil increase to finance $7 million more in additional school spending and [...]
Tags: Andy Fardy·Bill Finch·Jacqueline Kelleher·John Gomes·John Marshall Lee·Leticia Colon·Lydia Martinez·Mark Trojanowski·Michelle Lyons·Pat Fardy·Paul Vallas·Sacred Heart University·Tom Sherwood
Education Inspiration Awards
April 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Best of Bridgeport, Education, News and Events
From the Bridgeport Public Education Fund: We’re having a very special event and you’re invited! Please join us on May 2nd, 3:30 at The Bridgeport Holiday Inn for the Inspiration Awards! This year six educators, who were nominated by their colleagues, are being honored by the Bridgeport Public Education Fund with a Tiffany Crystal Apple [...]
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The Public Hearing On Finch’s Spending Plan–A Chance For Budget Cops And Ed Advocates To Step Up
April 26th, 2012 · 7 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, Education, News and Events
Tonight is the night all the budget police have been waiting for: the public hearing on Mayor Bill Finch’s spending plan before the City Council’s Budget and Appropriations Committee, 6 p.m. City Council chambers. Council members say privately the mayor’s proposed 2.7 mil tax increase to fund $7 million more for education and millions more [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Paul Vallas
Message From Mario To Education Candidates: Send Your Credentials To Mother Goose
May 4th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Education
Want to be backed by the Democratic Town Committee for a school board seat? Democratic Town Chair Mario Testa is asking candidates to forward their résumés to Vice Chair Dottie Guman.
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Tags: Dottie Guman·Hernan Illingworth·Kenneth Moales·Mario Testa