A special meeting of the Board of Education will take place today (Monday) 5:30pm in Room 305 of City Hall in response to Capital Preparatory Harbor Charter School’s application with the state to expand in size and locations, a move local school officials assert will cost it an extra $200,000 in busing and other expenses.
Entries Tagged as 'Aresta Johnson'
Proposed Charter School Expansion Could Swell Ed Budget Deficit
July 17th, 2017 · 6 Comments · Education, News and Events
Lights On For Lighthouse Program
June 29th, 2017 · 2 Comments · Education, News and Events
Facing a Friday deadline, the school board reversed itself Wednesday with Annette Segarra-Negron casting the deciding 5-4 vote, rescuing the city’s Lighthouse after-school and summer program from the demand of a $500,000 rental fee for use of Board of Education buildings.
Tags: Annette Segarra-Negron·Aresta Johnson·CT Post·Linda Conner Lambeck
Pereira Decries Votes, Don’t Vote For Major Party School Board Candidates in November
June 29th, 2017 · 12 Comments · City Budget, City Council, City Politics, Education
School board member Maria Pereira, lamenting the 5-4 Lighthouse Program vote, dresses down the members who voted in favor, in this commentary. Wednesday, June 28, 2017, will be remembered as a day that will live in infamy for the Bridgeport Board of Education (BBOE), the Bridgeport Public Schools (BPS) and our over 21,199 students. On […]
Tags: Aresta Johnson·Danny Roach·Dennis Bradley·Joe Ganim·Joe Larcheveque·John Weldon·Maria Pereira·Mario Testa·Raphael Fonseca
Students Salute City Firefighters
May 5th, 2017 · 88 Comments · Best of Bridgeport, Education, Firefighters, News and Events
On International Firefighters Day, city school students and neighborhood residents saluted Bridgeport’s public safety, courtesy of an event organized by the 138th Democratic Town Committee that represents the Upper East Side.
Tags: Aresta Johnson·Maria Pereira
City Council Rejects Classical Studies Move To Catholic Center Building
May 2nd, 2017 · 90 Comments · City Council, Education, News and Events
From Brian Lockhart, CT Post: The City Council on Monday blocked the proposed move of the Classical Studies Academy magnet school to the Catholic Center on Jewett Avenue in the North End.
School Chief Aresta Johnson, Others, Implore Council’s Budget Committee For More Education Dough
April 19th, 2017 · 19 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Education, News and Events
On a night the public was invited to speak about Mayor Joe Ganim’s $542 million proposed budget, most delivered passionate appeals for additional education spending including the city’s new school chief Aresta Johnson who told the City Council’s Budget and Appropriations Committee “We want (school children) to have the same things other children have whether […]
Tags: Aresta Johnson·Denese Taylor-Moye·Howard Gardner·Joe Ganim·Maria Pereira
Unanimous, School Board Selects Aresta Johnson As Education Leader
March 27th, 2017 · 9 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Education, News and Events
It’s been years in the making to name a school leader without “acting” or “interim” as part of a title, but Monday night the Board of Education did something it has rarely done on big issues, unanimously approving Aresta Johnson as superintendent of schools.
Tags: Aresta Johnson·CT Post·Joe Larcheveque·Linda Conner Lambeck
Lopez To School Board: Don’t Micromanage Superintendent’s Work
August 30th, 2017 · 8 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Education, News and Events
Monday night’s Board of Education agenda, the first of the new school year, included this item: “Possible action on superintendent and all other appropriate Bridgeport Public School District employees to execute all grant application documents and all other paperwork and correspondence necessary for the District to partner with the City of Bridgeport’s Lighthouse Program in its […]
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Tags: Aresta Johnson·Carmen Lopez·Dennis Bradley·Fran Rabinowitz·Joe Larcheveque