Governor Dannel Malloy will conduct his latest town hall meeting to share his education reform package tonight 7:30 at Central High School, 1 Lincoln Boulevard. The governor has gone where no governor has gone before, taking on the noisy teachers union in his proposal to make classrooms more accountable.
Malloy has said time and again good teachers have nothing to worry about in his tenure reform proposal, but he’s receiving some pushback from members of his own party up for reelection this year. Translation: we’re afraid of the teachers union, the Connecticut Education Association that turned out roughly 1,000 protesters in Hartford on Monday.
Closer to home in the state’s largest city, officials are concerned about the small print in the governor’s 200-page-plus proposal including a graduated five-year scale that would require Bridgeport to eventually fund 30 percent of its education budget, a dramatic increase over what it currently provides. Bean counters say it will break the bank causing a massive tax increase.
The legislative session ends in a few weeks so the governor may end up with half a loaf in his first pass at education reform.
I guess the governor has not taken a look at the major cities in CT. Where the hell are we going to get the money for this latest attempt to improve education?
I suggest the governor spend all his time trying to recruit new companies and jobs to CT. He can start by lowering some of the outrages taxes we pay like the gasoline tax, utility prices and the like.
We have a mayor looking for a large tax increase this year. Where the hell do these politicians think we are going to get the money to pay just this year’s tax increase?
We need to rob Peter to pay Paul Vallas. Poverty is conquered by the rapier of education. Raising taxes is not the answer. It is an act of the ignorant. Those incapable of deducing an effective and appropriate solution to our financial woes are elected over and over by an apathetic group of brain-dead registered non-voters. We need elected officials who can take what we have in tax revenue and make it work. Cut, slash, and make a lot of fat cats unhappy is the only way we can dif out. The more our taxes go up the less desirable our community becomes. No one will move here nor bring business here.
Big deal; he is here for one hour. He will dazzle the crowd with bullshit for about 20 minutes, then have a Q & A period. He will take questions and stretch out his answers so he will only have time for a few questions. Finch has been doing this at every public meeting he has.
*** Talks of throwing more money at Bpt education hasn’t made things better in 25 years. It just dulls the pain for a while but the ca and kids) to make the needed changes that could make a difference. The kind of differences that will affect everyone involved in one way or another, no? *** Sink or Swim? ***