Entries Tagged as 'Stefan Pryor'
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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Tags: Bobby Simmons·Carmen Lopez·John Bagley·Maria Pereira·Norm Pattis·Sauda Baraka·Stefan Pryor·University of Connecticut
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 [...]
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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
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 [...]
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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
When Governor Dannel Malloy submits his two-year budget to the state legislature on Wednesday it will include a proposal to allocate roughly $173 million for city schools for the budget year beginning July 1, an increase of roughly $4.3 million from the current budget year. His proposal also calls for an additional $4 million for the budget [...]
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Tags: Dan Malloy·Nancy Wyman·Stefan Pryor
UPDATE: A special meeting of the Board of Education is scheduled for Wednesday (today), 6 p.m. in Conference Room 305 of City Hall, 45 Lyon Terrace to discuss Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas’ mid-year evaluation. A spokesperson for Vallas says the original notice for a meeting Tuesday night was issued in error on the school board website. The school board is [...]
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Tags: Bill Finch·Bobby Simmons·Harding High School·Hernan Illingworth·Jacqueline Kelleher·John Bagley·Jonathan Pelto·Ken Moales·Leticia Colon·Maria Pereira·Paul Vallas·Sauda Baraka·Stefan Pryor·Tom Mulligan
UPDATE: Paul Vallas issues statement to OIB “In August, I declined the request of the State appointed Board of Education to extend my contract beyond June of 2013. I made this choice as I believed that ultimately the decision should be left to the returning elected Board. That said, I do believe deeply in the [...]
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Tags: Harding High School·Paul Vallas·Stefan Pryor
On Tuesday nine candidates for Board of Education will be on the ballot for a special election ordered by the Connecticut Supreme Court after it overturned the move last summer that led to state control of city schools. The elected school board will be reseated once the Tuesday results are certified by elections officials. Four [...]
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Tags: Ben Barnes·Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition·CT Post·Dan Malloy·Excel Bridgeport·Hernan Illingworth·Jacqueline Kelleher·Ken Moales·Paul Vallas·Robert Trefry·Sandra Kase·Stefan Pryor
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 [...]
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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