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Other Stuff
If We Are to Focus on Education- Baran, Lustila and Shipman Must Go
Update: January legal billing added below. Might be a new monthly record.
The saga of incompetence and deception by our K-8 school administration continues. Below you will find the WBOE legal bills for the period October 15, 2009 through December 31, 2009. Just some of
the lowlights:
• Complaint concerning teacher and resulting investigation.
• Pending sexual harassment/assault/expulsion matter.
• Conferring with attorneys regarding authority of administration to override teacher’s grading.
• Conferring with attorneys regarding PAC contributions. ...
The Complex Performing Arts Centre Proudly Presents...
Cait is coming home from Emerson to sing for this worthy cause...join us!
A Tough Breed We Are...
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A weekend chuckle from an anonymous reader:
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Classic Howard Zinn Interviews
These were produced just prior to the November 2008 elections by the Real News Network and should not be missed.
When Public-Employee Unions Attack!
Can a book about public-employee unions’ excess and thuggery be complete if it doesn’t contain copious anecdotes from the Nutmeg State?
Steven Greenhut thinks so, and it’s the reason Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation disappoints.
In 241 pages and 330 endnotes, the former Orange County Register editor and columnist fails to include a single tale of the rapaciousness of Connecticut’s unionized ... << MORE >>
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Woodstock's "Attack PAC" Revealed
No surprises here: Kevin Ford- Chair (Current BOE member), John Leavitt- Treasurer, Rebbecca Leavitt- Deputy Treasurer (I guess he can’t handle it
alone with all of those contributions and expenditures).
Other officers are listed as: George McCoy (Current BOF member), Dean Audet (Highway Project member), Marylou Davis & Steve Gottlieb (Well known Academy critics on the hill) and of course
Lindsay Paul (Deposed BOE Chair and current member).
Quite a collection of tax ...
A Constitutional Amendment: Corporations Are Not People
Join Public Citizen President Robert Weissman for a discussion of the U. S. Supreme Court's disastrous decision in the 'Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission' case, in which the court ruled that the First Amendment allows corporations to spend as much money as they want attacking or promoting candidates for political office. Robert will outline Public Citizen's campaign to preserve democracy for We, the People—including our grassroots mobilization for a constitutional amendment to prevent the First Amendment from being distorted to provide cover for a corporate takeover of our electoral process. Robert will also answer questions from the audience.
You can register -HERE-.
John Leavitt and the “Attack PAC” Smacked by the SEEC
Petition Circulating Against SCOTUS Decision on Corporate Campaign Spending
From an anonymous reader:
Are you familiar with a California Supreme Court case dating from 1886; Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad? If not, you can read
about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad This is
the landmark case that is primarily responsible for Corporations being afforded the same rights as People under the Constitution. Isn't that CRAZY?
Now we have the recent Supreme Court case Citizens ...
<< MORE >>Why Not “Regionalize” the Entire Town First?
From Education Week: Experts Urge Districts to Do More With Less
& A Penny Saved: How Schools and Districts Can Tighten Their Belts While Serving Students Better
By Dr. Armand A. Fusco
The discussion whirling around the state is to regionalize efforts with nearby towns to cut and control costs. However, what is missing from the discussions is that the town should first “regionalize (cooperate)” with their schools by combining purchasing, staffing, facilities management, energy conservation, technology, etc. The schools and the town operate as independent entities rather than working together in spite of the fact that the resources they have come from the same ... << MORE >>
Dr. Fusco on the CAPSS Letter to the State Legislature
It is no surprise that he is advocating more taxes to keep education afloat based on practices and procedures that are laden with waste and mismanagement. This is why CAPSS is opposed to citizen audit committees that have revealed such excesses.
The reality is that if districts cut back on expenditures it could impact their membership to CAPSS. He is already getting ... << MORE >>
School Superintendents Completely Out of Touch with Reality
Here's a missive sent out today to the entire state legislature by Joseph Cirasuolo, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents:
Beginning with the deliberations by the State Legislature and the Governor regarding the State budget for FY 2010, continuing through the current deliberations with respect to ...
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