Parents affiliated with the Parent Advisory Council have planned a rally today at 5:30 p.m. at the Aquaculture School, 60 Stephens Road, to protest the Montessori charter school application, claiming it will drain funds from public school interests. A public hearing on the application is scheduled for 6 p.m. according to the Board of Education [...]
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Parent Leaders To Protest Charter School Proposal
May 20th, 2013 · 22 Comments · Education, News and Events
Tags: CT Post·Excel Bridgeport
Janet Gomes Wins PAC Election, Working Families Party Accuses Excel Bridgeport Of Smear Campaign
May 8th, 2013 · 22 Comments · City Politics, Education, News and Events
Janet Gomes, wife of 2011 mayoral candidate John Gomes, won the Parent Advisory Election on Wednesday. Update from CT Post reporter Linda Conner Lambeck: Janet Gomes, a Thomas Hooker parent, won a three-way race for president of the District Parent Advisory Council Wednesday in a controversial re-do election in which the votes of parents whose [...]
Tags: CT Post·Excel Bridgeport·Jessica Martinez·John Gomes·Linda Conner Lambeck·Maria Pereira
What’s Your Story Of The Year? The Education Ballot Question Broke Spending Records
December 26th, 2012 · 10 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Education
Sandy Hook in Newtown. It’s the horrific story of the year–nationally, locally and everything in between. The bloodiest gun massacre of school children in American history may be the story of a lifetime. Back in the Bridgeport-centric world of the state’s largest city one of the top stories of the year was the ballot question [...]
Tags: Andres Ayala·Andy Fardy·Bill Finch·Bob "Troll" Walsh·Carmen Lopez·Chris Caruso·Ed Gomes·Ernie Newton·Excel Bridgeport·John Marshall Lee·Mary-Jane Foster·Max Medina·Ralph Ford
The Power Of The Pulpit–Is Pastor Bennett Considering A Mayoral Run?
December 12th, 2012 · 49 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Education
The next mayoral election is 2015, but if you want to build coalitions, speak out on issues and poise yourself as mayoral timber, it’s not too soon to commence groundwork. That, at least, is the thinking of a number of political operatives and neighborhood leaders prevailing upon Anthony Bennett, pastor of Mount Aery Baptist Church [...]
Tags: Anthony Bennett·Bill Finch·Charlie Tisdale·Ernie Newton·Excel Bridgeport·John Ramos·Lenny Paoletta·Residents for a Better Bridgeport
Testy Election For Parent Advisory Council
May 8th, 2013 · 10 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Education, News and Events
City elections rarely disappoint for controversy, whether for mayor, city council, school board and the one taking place today for the Parent Advisory Council at the Education Center, 900 Boston Avenue. Once again forces aligned with Connecticut’s Working Families Party that controls four of nine votes on the Board of Education and the education reform [...]
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