School board member Maria Pereira writes in a commentary, “In these 24 years, the Lighthouse Program has not paid the Bridgeport Board of Education (BBOE) a single dollar in rental fees, heating, cooling, WPCA, food, custodial, hand soap, paper towel, toilet tissue.” The following commentary also appeared in the CT Post.
Entries Tagged as 'Maria Pereira'
Pereira: Pay Up Or Lighthouse Program Must Find Another Landlord
June 3rd, 2017 · 20 Comments · Education, News and Events
Tags: Joe Ganim·Maria Pereira
State Agency Tosses Rabinowitz’s Human Rights Complaint Against Pereira
May 31st, 2017 · 19 Comments · Education, News and Events
Asserting the complaint lacked “any factual basis” the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities has dismissed allegations by former school chief Fran Rabinowitz that Board of Education member Maria Pereira “threatened me regarding loss of job, harassed me continuously by sending threatening emails, phone calls, derogatory statements made in public regarding my race and abilities.” Charles Krich, […]
Ganim Defends Education Record, Critics Pounce
May 29th, 2017 · 8 Comments · Education, News and Events
In this election cycle for Board of Education and City Council, a number of work-in-progress coalitions are sizing up incumbent and party-endorsed challenges with July conventions on the horizon. In 2015 Joe Ganim ran on an education platform of more money and less intrusion from the chief executive. Ganim stands by his less intrusive stance […]
Tags: CT Post·Dennis Bradley·Joe Ganim·Linda Conner Lambeck·Maria Pereira
School Board Monday Night Fight Over Lighthouse Program
May 23rd, 2017 · 29 Comments · Education, News and Events
pic.twitter.com/G7ZfecJDuv — linda lambeck (@lclambeck) May 23, 2017 If you’re bored with the Board of Education, it wasn’t so boring Monday night. The nine-member body got into quite an exchange over an eventual vote that failed to overturn a $500,000 rental fee charged to the city’s Lighthouse program for after school and summer programs that […]
Tags: CT Post·Joe Larcheveque·Linda Conner Lambeck·Maria Pereira·Mark Anastasi
Jessica Martinez Brings Passion To School Board Race
May 10th, 2017 · 16 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Education, News and Events
Jessica Martinez, the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s moratorium on magnet and charter schools, says she will be a Democratic candidate for Board of Education. Strap in. It’s gonna be a wild battle.
Students Salute City Firefighters
May 5th, 2017 · 88 Comments · Best of Bridgeport, Education, Firefighters, News and Events
On International Firefighters Day, city school students and neighborhood residents saluted Bridgeport’s public safety, courtesy of an event organized by the 138th Democratic Town Committee that represents the Upper East Side.
Tags: Aresta Johnson·Maria Pereira
School Chief Aresta Johnson, Others, Implore Council’s Budget Committee For More Education Dough
April 19th, 2017 · 19 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Education, News and Events
On a night the public was invited to speak about Mayor Joe Ganim’s $542 million proposed budget, most delivered passionate appeals for additional education spending including the city’s new school chief Aresta Johnson who told the City Council’s Budget and Appropriations Committee “We want (school children) to have the same things other children have whether […]
Tags: Aresta Johnson·Denese Taylor-Moye·Howard Gardner·Joe Ganim·Maria Pereira
A City Council Election Year And Already Absentee Ballot Applications
June 5th, 2017 · 23 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics, Education, News and Events
It’s not often three school board members sign up to address the City Council during the public speaking portion of the meeting on the same night, but that’s what Maria Pereira, Sauda Baraka and Howard Gardner are scheduled to do for Monday’s session. The school board budget and Classical Studies Program are common themes.
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Tags: Bob Keeley·Howard Gardner·Maria Pereira·Sauda Baraka·Tom McCarthy