Wanna be a member of Bridgeport Board of Education? Easy! All you have to do is reside in Bridgeport and be an unaffiliated voter willing to register as a member of the Working Families Party. Seriously. That’s because, at the moment, the Board of Education is scrambling to find a replacement for John Bagley, who… Continue reading BOE’s Search To Replace Bagley Complicated By Sham Third Party
Readers might remember all the hysteria surrounding the approval of Harding High School’s site plan. Committee meetings were high-jacked by activists, with the majority on the board led by Chair Sauda Baraka her cohort Jon Bagley doing everything in their power to delay or halt the approval of the project’s site plan, claiming that the… Continue reading Harding High School Hysteria Unfounded
Why aren’t labor leaders flocking to self-styled union savior Jonathan Pelto? Perhaps it’s because he sold them out in 2001. Yes, the ever-so-principled Pelto worked against labor, because when you boil it down, he’s a political consultant looking out for his own pocketbook. In the Spring of 2001, New England Health Care Employees Union, District… Continue reading Jon Pelto Sold Out Unions to the Highest Bidder
Activist judge Carmen Lopez wrote recently that a “third-party candidate might be just what Connecticut needs,” proving once again that the best interest of Bridgeport’s kids is not anywhere near her top priority. Bridgeport, you see, has a problem. Only two out of every 10 3rd graders who speak English as a second language can… Continue reading Lopez’s Top Priority is Certainly Not Bridgeport’s Kids
In all honesty, the title of this piece should be “The Top Four Ways the Bridgeport Board of Education is Failing Our Kids,” because to limit the list to four seems … disingenuous. Not included on this list are some more pernicious and, dare I say, undemocratic ways the Board of Education has been manipulating… Continue reading Four ways the Bridgeport Board of Education is Failing our Kids
Despite all logic, it seems the Board of Education’s facilities merger with the city may be on the chopping block once again. The facilities merger, which began in 2012, has saved the school board’s operations budget approximately $1 million. At Monday’s meeting, board member Howard Gardner made several comments about the facilities merger, insisting that… Continue reading Bridgeport Board of Education Considering Ending Facilities Merger That Saves The District $1 Million
So, let me get this straight … Bridgeport Board of Education Chairwoman Sauda Baraka and her cronies think city schools aren’t fully funded, but they are against new state-funded charter schools? Huh? The Working Families Party-controlled members of the Bridgeport Board of Education have been whining quite a bit lately about the Minimum Budget Requirement,… Continue reading Baraka’s Logical Conflict: How Fighting Charters Hurts Her Cause
There’s been a lot of talk about the recent Families for Excellent Schools ad campaign, but none of it focuses on the real issue — the fact that Bridgeport’s Board of Education is considering a lawsuit against the state Board of Education to literally block children from receiving a quality education. The real question we… Continue reading Bridgeport BOE Considers Lawsuit To Block Children From Receiving Quality Education
I noticed recently that the Working Families Party is looking for some new blood in the form of a statewide political director (the last one must have not made it back to the coffin by daybreak). Just for fun, I have rewritten the job advertisement, you know, for honesty. Wanted: Political Puppeteer The Working Families… Continue reading A Job Notice As It Should Be Written
According to Bridgeport’s Working Families Party-controlled Board of Education, rules only apply to some. At Monday night’s board meeting, in clear violation of their bylaws, Working Families Party-allied activist Clyde Nicholson was allowed to take personal pot-shots at former Board Chairman Rev. Kenneth Moales. According to the board’s bylaws, “No individual or group [shall]… Continue reading Baraka Defends Personal Attack on a Fellow Board Member
