A week after announcing bad news regarding the city’s child poverty rate, the Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition will host the Bridgeport Children’s Issues Dialogue 2012, Tuesday 6:30 – 8 p.m. at Mount Aery Baptist Church, 73 Frank Street. Several members of the city’s state legislative delegation are expected to participate as well as more than [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition'
Child Advocacy Group Hosts Legislative Forum
December 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Education, News and Events
Bridgeport Child Advocacy Report Highlights Spike In Number Of City Children Living In Poverty
November 28th, 2012 · 4 Comments · News and Events
The Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition on Tuesday issued its 2012 State of the Child in Bridgeport that reveals “children in Bridgeport living below the federal poverty line rose from 31 percent in 2010 to almost 40 percent in 2011–two and a half times the statewide rate of 15 percent and three times the Fairfield County [...]
Tags: Betty Pfriem·Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition·Mary Pat Healy
Historic Spending To Influence Charter Question–The Fight To Control School Board
October 29th, 2012 · 13 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Education
The Town of Bridgeport was incorporated in 1821. The City of Bridgeport incorporated in 1836. At no time in the history of Connecticut’s most populous city has a local general election, be it candidates for office, or a charter question, or any of the above combined in a single cycle, experienced the money financing the Nov. [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition·Excel Bridgeport·Residents for a Better Bridgeport
Bridgeport Parents: Why I’m Voting Yes On Charter Question–Megabucks Spent On Ballot Effort
October 25th, 2012 · 15 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Education, News and Events
The education reform group Excel Bridgeport www.excelbridgeport.com has released its latest video featuring several city parents in support of a yes vote for the Nov. 6 charter question that if approved by voters will empower Mayor Bill Finch to appoint school board members. Advocates on both sides of the charter question have launched an intense [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition·Excel Bridgeport·Residents for a Better Bridgeport
Finch Channels Parents: ‘Maybe My Kid Would Be Better In This School’–The Case For A Charter Yes Vote
October 22nd, 2012 · 5 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Education, News and Events
The political action committee Residents For A Better Bridgeport has produced three new videos that makes the case to voters, if you want to continue progress for children “vote yes for charter reform.” If this charter question goes down in flames it won’t be for the lack of trying by Mayor Bill Finch and supporters [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition·Residents for a Better Bridgeport
The Power Of Organized Opposition And A Large Voter Turnout Defeat Ballot Question
November 7th, 2012 · 23 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Education
What did we learn from the defeat of the education ballot question? The traditional Democratic Party apparatus, even well financed, is vulnerable to defeat in higher turnout elections, especially in the face of organized opposition. Small election turnouts they can control, large turnouts they cannot.
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Tags: Bill Finch·Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition·Bridgeport Hospital·Excel Bridgeport·John Ramos·Maria Pereira·Paul Vallas·Sauda Baraka·Tom Kelly