At this point, sudden resignations have become a perennial event for the Bridgeport Board of Education. Since 2014, two members abruptly ended their terms. Former Chair Dave Hennessy will be the third. According to the Connecticut Post, Hennessey handed in his letter of resignation to the city clerk’s office on Tuesday morning, after quietly leaving… Continue reading Hennessey Makes Quiet Exit From Bridgeport School Board
It looks like former Board Member Maria Pereira will be joining her running mates Ben Walker and Dennis Bradley on November’s ballot. A week after the primary, after a tense 12-hour recount, the preliminary results revealed that Pereira narrowly beat out endorsed candidate Faith Harrison-Villegas by 28 votes. Republican endorsed candidates John Weldon and Kevin… Continue reading Primary Puts Pereira, Walker and Bradley on November Ballot
The Bridgeport Board of Education voted 6-3 to reject Sauda Baraka and the tactics employed by the Working Families Party last night, choosing instead to elect retired teacher Dave Hennessey as their new board chair. One would assume that the board rejected Baraka as chair because over the last year the focus has been on… Continue reading Working Families Party Coalition No Longer in Control of Bridgeport’s BOE
It appears there is a major power shift coming to the Bridgeport Board of Education when the board votes on its next chair at tonight’s organizational meeting. Last year, the board was taken over by a coalition led and funded by the Working Families Party after union-aligned candidates beat out the endorsed Democratic slate in… Continue reading Bridgeport BOE: Is This the End of Baraka’s Reign?
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
If you’re wondering if the Bridgeport Board of Education has their priorities straight, look no further than the agenda for tonight’s regular board meeting. According to tonight’s agenda, the board is set to discuss “an update on tablets for Board Members.” Yes. You read that right. The same Board of Education that was talking about… Continue reading Bridgeport BOE Wants New Tablets for Themselves, Yet Can’t Provide Basic Classroom Necessities
Bridgeport Board of Education Attorney Thomas Mooney has advised the board that the vacancy left by John Bagley must be filled by a member of the Working Families Party based on the state’s minority representation statute. There’s one gigantic problem with that: Who exactly in Bridgeport is a member of the Working Families party? As… Continue reading BOE Attorney: New Bridgeport Board Member Must be Registered Working Families Party Member
So far, Bridgeport Board of Education members have been tight-lipped about who may replace John Bagley, who officially resigned from his post last Wednesday. Their silence ends this evening. The board is holding a special meeting at Cesar Batalla School, 606 Howard Avenue, at 5:30 p.m., where they are set to discuss the process and… Continue reading Bridgeport BOE Set to Meet On Vacancy
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
Let me get this straight: Even though Dunbar has seen substantial gains over the past year, including a lower suspension and higher attendance rates, the school’s fate still hangs in the balance? In other words, the state and the board could possibly punish children for the actions of one adult. On Monday, the State Board… Continue reading Dunbar School’s Fate Still Hangs in the Balance
