From Michael Daly, CT Post: David E.A. Carson, former head of People’s Savings Bank, now Peoples United, was one of four long-time supporters of public education honored Tuesday morning by The Bridgeport Public Education Fund, an organization he helped get off the ground in 1983. Carson, in brief remarks, spoke forcefully about the nature of [...]
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Carson Zings Finch About Choosing School Board Members
September 18th, 2012 · 9 Comments · Education, News and Events
Tags: Betty Pfriem·Bill Finch·CT Post·David Carson·Michael Daly
Charles Grodin Featured At Bridgeport Public Education Fund
September 7th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Education, News and Events
You saw him as the accountant who was chased by the FBI, mobsters and a bounty hunter played by Robert DeNiro in Midnight Run, now Charles Grodin will make an early morning run September 18 at a breakfast forum hosted by the Bridgeport Public Education Fund, a support group of city schools founded in 1983 [...]
Tags: Betty Pfriem·CT Post·David Carson
Private Donors For City Education
December 23rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Education, News and Events
Baby, keep that moolah coming! Dramatic change in the structure of the city’s school system suggests private donors are more willing to get involved, according to this story by Shelly Banjo and Lisa Fleisher in the Wall Street Journal. Wealthy donors have created a fund to pay the salary of a new Bridgeport school superintendent, ushering in [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Dan Malloy·David Carson·Jim Himes·Mary-Jane Foster·Paul Vallas·Robert Trefry·Shelly Banjo·Stefan Pryor·Wall Street Journal
Reality: You Know A Project’s Successful When Everyone Takes Credit
September 13th, 2011 · 12 Comments · City Politics, Development and Zoning, News and Events
A lot of stuff is swirling out there about who deserves credit for making construction of the ballpark and arena at Harbor Yard a reality. Fact: There’s no ballpark, no Bluefish and no arena without Mary-Jane Foster and husband Jack McGregor. They were the driving private-sector forces behind the sports entertainment complex.
Tags: Bill Finch·CT Post·David Carson·Jack McGregor·Joe Ganim·John Rowland·Mary-Jane Foster·Mike Marella·Pat Crossin·Webster Bank Arena
Carson: State Ed Department Clawless Tiger
December 16th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Education
David Ellis Adams Carson has spent a near-lifetime advocating for Connecticut’s public school children, testifying at legislative hearings in Washington and Hartford, and 10 years after he retired as chief executive of People’s Bank his efforts continue. (Full disclosure: I am his biographer.) He served as a member of The Connecticut Commission on Educational Achievement and [...]
Tags: David Carson·Jodi Rell
Ed Commission Report
November 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Education, News and Events
A panel presentation and discussion on the findings of the governor’s Connecticut Commission on Educational Achievement will take place at 4:30 p.m., November 16th in the Beacon Hall Event Center at Housatonic Community College. Commission members Carla Klein, David Carson & Dudley Williams will make up the panel. This presentation is being presented by the [...]
Tags: Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition·David Carson·Housatonic Community College
Weicker, Carson Lead Foster’s Legal Defense Fund
September 13th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events
You want to go to court? It takes moolah. Just ask Mayor Bill Finch who set up a legal defense fund to cover his costs associated with Chris Caruso’s court challenge of the 2007 Democratic mayoral primary. Finch’s 2011 challenger Mary-Jane Foster charged that Democratic Registrar Santa Ayala unlawfully denied her a ballot spot. Superior Court Judge [...]
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Tags: Alan Neigher·Bill Finch·Chris Caruso·David Carson·John Kadaras·Lowell Weicker·Mary-Jane Foster·Michele Mount·Nancy Hadley·Quinnipiac University·Santa Ayala