Governor Dannell Malloy can’t do enough for the charter industry. He forgives their malfeasance, he gives them more money than the public schools that educate the vast majority of the state’s children, he puts their leaders on the state board of education. The hedge fund managers of Greenwich have been the governor’s reliable financiers, but maybe that is mere coincidence.
The latest appointment raised eyebrows not only because the gentleman runs a charter but because the state department of education system pays him over half a million dollars a year for his services.
Jonathan Pelto thinks that is a conflict of interest.
Charter representatives on the board should recuse themselves in any decision affecting charter schools. Will they? Don’t count on it.
By the way, Malloy is chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.
What at do you think?
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Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
By the way, Malloy is chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.
“Seventy percent of state legislatures, more than 60 percent of governorships, 55 percent of attorneys general and secretaries of state are all under Republican control.”
My sense is Democrats want to be an exclusively DC political party, judging by how few state Democrats are left.
Maybe Malloy’s job is to get the number of Democratic state officeholders to “zero”. That seems to be the target they’re trying to hit.
The rumor mill says Pres. Obama is going to nominate a pro-charter school, voucher-loving governor for supreme court justice. It’s Nevada’s anti-labor Republican governor, Sandoval.
AND, Malloy’s budget increases funds to charters while cutting public school funding- ALL WHILE A LANDMARK SCHOOL FUNDING TRIAL IS UNDERWAY IN HARTFORD. Malloy defended increasing funding for charters here, http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/02/24/malloy-defends-new-budget-charter-schools/, where he said experimentation is good in education.
Here are just some of Malloy’s charter experiments: Handing over $50 Million to a convicted embezzler of public funds, who then hired ex-convicts to work in the public elementary school the State BOE handed over to the charter chain the embezzler ran (and then he ran that poor elementary school into the ground); funding a charter chain that has the highest rate of suspending 5 year olds in the state; funding that same charter chain found to have violated the civil rights of students with disabilities. Can’t wait to see what new experiments Malloy has in store for our most vulnerable children next.
Meanwhile, other so-called “Democrats” like Rosa DeLauro say nothing about all of this.
Or in DeLauro’s case, they actively attempt to silence anyone who brings up inconvenient truths and challenges their pals as Jonathan Pelto did in the last governor’s election.
Connecticut is one of the most un-democratic “Democrat” states.
The CT Democrat party is run by the hedge funds and bankers and people like Malloy and DeLauro are their mouthpieces.
What do I think? I think that when I get fundraising letters from the Democratic Governors Association, with Dannell Malloy’s name on the return address, I’ll dump them right in the paper recycling bin.
Malloy in Connecticut and Rahm Emanuel in Chicago could cost Hillary the nomination and/or the election. When will she turn on them to save herself? When will self-preservation overcome corruption in both of the major political parties? Trump and Sanders are favorites simply because they are not hacks from both corporate owned political parties.
Charters, hedge fund and venture fund managers, and other monied interests are profiteering at the cost of public education and the future of our children. These guys grab whatever they can take and damn future consequences for others. The message is clear and grim. Most people prefer to avoid grim situations as too negative to dwell upon. Well, this is push comes to shove time. It’s time to fight back or watch our children’s futures perish. Organize, network and refuse to play their games.
Someone told me that Trump opposes charters. I have trouble believing that, but then they say even a broken clock is right twice a day. Has anyone else heard that?
I don’t know what Trump thinks about education
I don’t know if he has given it much thought
Here’s two words on Trump’s education policy: Trump University. It seems to me that if and when Mr. Trump is elected the doors to public education will be open for business:
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/21/the_donald_trump_scandal_no_one_is_talking_about_partner/