Retired Superior Court Judge Carmen Lopez has filed a complaint in state court seeking to invalidate last month’s 5-4 vote by the Board of Education granting a three-year contract to Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas, claiming Vallas lacks the certified credentials to serve as school chief. She’s represented by Norm Pattis, the lawyer who persuaded [...]
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Lopez Files Suit To Overturn Vallas’ Contract, Pattis ‘Banging On School Board’s Door: I’m Back’
April 1st, 2013 · 20 Comments · Education, News and Events
Tags: Bobby Simmons·Carmen Lopez·John Bagley·Maria Pereira·Norm Pattis·Sauda Baraka·Stefan Pryor·University of Connecticut
Working Families Party Claims Vallas Vote A “Shocking Abuse Of Democracy”
March 5th, 2013 · 35 Comments · Education
The day after the Bridgeport Board of Education approved by a 5-4 vote a three-year contract for Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas, members and supporters of the Connecticut Working Families Party are lashing out, including Maria Pereira, one of three WFP school board members who voted against Vallas.
Tags: Bill Finch·Bobby Simmons·Ed Gomes·Hernan Illingworth·Jacqueline Kelleher·John Bagley·Ken Moales·Leticia Colon·Maria Pereira·Paul Vallas·Sauda Baraka·Tom Mulligan
School Board, By 5-4 Vote, Approves Three-Year Deal For Vallas–Finch: ‘Right For The Children’
March 4th, 2013 · 40 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Education, News and Events
The Bridgeport Board of Education Monday night approved a new three-year contract for Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas in a vote that continued a 5-4 split among the Democratic majority and the vocal opposition from members of the Connecticut Working Families Party. The thee-year deal came as a surprise as Vallas had postured publicly for [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Bobby Simmons·Excel Bridgeport·Hernan Illingworth·Jacqueline Kelleher·John Bagley·Ken Moales·Leticia Colon·Maria Pereira·Maria Zambrano·Paul Vallas·Sauda Baraka·Stefan Pryor·Tom Mulligan
Vallas’ Performance Evaluation, Possible Contract Vote, On Monday School Board Agenda
March 4th, 2013 · 47 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Education, News and Events
The battle for control of the Board of Education continues Monday (tonight) with a scheduled special meeting for “Discussion and Possible Action Regarding Superintendent’s Performance Evaluation,” according the school board agenda. The meeting will take place 6:30 p.m. in City Hall, Conference Room 305, 45 Lyon Terrace. The nine-member school board is split with four [...]
Tags: Bobby Simmons·Excel Bridgeport·General Electric·Harding High School·Hernan Illingworth·Jacqueline Kelleher·Jessica Martinez·John Bagley·Ken Moales·Leticia Colon·Maria Pereira·Paul Vallas·Sacred Heart University·Sauda Baraka·Tom Mulligan
Mayor’s Education Director Says Working Families Party School Board Members “Obstruct Progress For Our Children”
March 1st, 2013 · 30 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Education, News and Events
The Connecticut Working Families Party is catching heat from OIB readers for its single-minded public castigation of Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas who says he’d like to stay on another school year as the nine-member Board of Education completes an evaluation of his job performance. Three of those school board members Maria Pereira, Sauda Baraka and John [...]
What Kind Of Evaluation Process Is This? Working Families Party Taking It To The Streets Against Vallas
February 28th, 2013 · 34 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Education, News and Events
Connecticut’s Working Families Party is now taking its case door to door in an effort to build support to torpedo a contract extension for Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas who said the other day the only way he will not serve another year as school chief is if the Board of Education does not make [...]
Tags: Bobby Simmons·Hernan Illingworth·Jacqueline Kelleher·John Bagley·Ken Moales·Leticia Colon·Maria Pereira·Marilyn Middlemass·Paul Vallas·Sauda Baraka·Stefan Pryor·Tom Mulligan
City Republicans Have A Pulse, Plan Rally Against Mayor’s Budget
April 4th, 2013 · 28 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, City Politics, Education, News and Events
When you’re outgunned nearly 10 to 1 by the city’s Democratic registration, it’s hard to bore through the party layers. But this is an election year for the all-Democratic City Council as well as five seats on the Board of Education where city Republicans could regain footing through minority-party representation controlled by members of Connecticut’s [...]
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Tags: Bill Finch·Bobby Simmons·Carmen Lopez·John Bagley·John Slater·Leticia Colon·Maria Pereira·Paul Vallas·Sauda Baraka·Tom Mulligan