Acting State Education Commissioner George Coleman seems like an earnest man about reforming city schools. Fact is he’s scheduled to retire in a few months
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The Quest To Qualify
Want to appear on the ballot for September’s Democratic mayoral primary? You’ll need certified signatures from five percent of registered Dems in the city. From Democratic mayoral
Read moreThe Beach Battle At Saints
Lots of Black Rockers are angry about the way the city is messing with the beach at Saints. This goes back a few weeks when
Read moreWho’s Lying About The Magnet School Deal? Was This An April Fool’s Joke?
The running soap opera As The Bridgeport And Trumbull Magnet Turns took a new twist last week when Mayor Bill Finch proclaimed the Parks Department building
Read moreOIB Archive: ‘A Land Swap For You! Carve Up The City–Abolish The Board of Education’
CT Post columnist MariAn Gail Brown writes that the City of Bridgeport should be dissolved as a result of the state takeover of city schools.
Read moreParents, Seeking Court Action, Want To Erase State Control
CT Post reporter Linda Conner Lambeck’s doing an outstanding job covering the Board of Education takeover.
Read moreReform Versus Failure–Can The State Improve City Education?
Is the state takeover of schools a bold historic reform initiative to set students on a new course or the desperate act of local incompetents
Read moreState Takes Keys To City Schools–Working Families Party Trashes Decision As Unconstitutional
Here we go. From CT Post: The State Board of Education this afternoon voted 5-to-4 to recommend a state takeover of the city of Bridgeport’s
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