During his campaign, Mayor Joseph Ganim touted that he would fight for increased funding, would find creative ways to appropriate new funding and do what he can to decrease class sizes. So far none of that has panned out. Fast forward only six months later and the Mayor is proposing a 2017 city budget with… Continue reading Bridgeport Students Don’t Need Another Broken Promise, They Need Resources
“This proposal is absolutely outrageous and unacceptable,” said outspoken education advocate and Achievement First parent Claudia Phillips. Phillips is upset over a proposal announced by state Republican lawmakers last week that would retroactively cut funding for charter schools by $12.9 million this year. According the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), if passed, this proposal… Continue reading Are State Republican Leaders Serious? Bridgeport Parents React To GOP Proposed Plan That Could Shut Down Charter Schools
For weeks certain Bridgeport Board of Education members have been calling for an investigation into the legal standing of Interim Superintendent Fran Rabinowitz’s two-year contract with the school district – on Monday, they finally got their way. The BOE voted, 5 – 4, in favor of asking state Attorney General George Jepsen to weigh in… Continue reading Bridgeport BOE Attack On Interim Superintendent’s Contract Is Purely Political
Harding High School graduate Jessica Gonzalez told the Bridgeport Board of Education at their last meeting that she struggled in math. The reason: In her sophomore year, the teacher assigned to her Geometry class resigned and was never replaced. Though Gonzalez lost almost an entire year of math, she is currently studying at Boston… Continue reading How Can Bridgeport Students Learn When They Don’t Have A Teacher?
For Bridgeport residents it’s probably hard to believe that a school board and a charter school could collaborate on anything, but only a few miles up the road, New Haven is once again proving us all wrong. According to the New Haven Independent, New Haven Public Schools and Achievement First are looking into a partnership… Continue reading In New Haven, Public and Charter Schools Look to Collaborate on Innovative New School
To say the building of a new Harding on a former industrial site owned by GE has been controversial is an understatement. Even though the proposed site is undergoing a thorough and public vetting process by the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, some in the community remain unconvinced that the city, GE or… Continue reading Conspiracy Theorists Abound At Information Session On Harding High School
I think it’s safe to say that most parents, no matter where they’re from, envision college in their children’s future. Bridgeport parent of three Kadisha Coates is no different. When I sat down with her a few weeks ago to talk about what she, a prospective charter school parent, thought about Bridgeport Public Schools she… Continue reading What Parents Think About Bridgeport Schools – Part III
The education advocacy group Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCan) released their annual school report cards on Thursday, giving Bridgeport Public Schools a ‘D’ for overall academic performance. Not exactly the news you want to hear the first day of school. It’s sad to say I’m not surprised by the results. Bridgeport’s selective magnet schools—Multicultural… Continue reading Bridgeport Public Schools Receive a ‘D’ on Their Report Card
According to state testing data released Wednesday, science proficiency at Dunbar has increase across the board, with huge gains in the number of students in both fifth and eighth grades (the two grades that take the Science test) that scored at or above proficiency on this year’s Connecticut Mastery Test. This is wonderful news for… Continue reading Dunbar Shows Across the Board Gains in Science
Bridgeport has no legal basis to sue the state over newly approved state charter schools, according to an email from attorney Thomas Mooney to the city’s interim school district superintendent, Fran Rabinowitz. Mooney was hired by the Bridgeport Board of Education to examine the possibility of legal action against the state of Connecticut, following the… Continue reading Attorney: Bridgeport BOE Has ‘No Basis for Lawsuit’
