Helen Ubiñas’ damning commentary on the 2550 Main Street Academy raises more questions than answers. Mind you, not about the controversial columnist loathed, or feared, by those at 550 Main Street. (I once had a dept. head ask me to ask Helen to stay away from said person…shiiii…like I got that kinda pull? she called me sheepish in a column once…every man for himself!)
No, the questions surround more the school, or Academy, itself and the recent complaint by both the Center for Children’s Advocacy and Greater Hartford Legal Aid. The complaint charges that the Academy failed to provide educational services in the least-restrictive environment, excluded students from participating in school programs because of their disabilities, failed to comply with required disciplinary procedures and failed to provide a safe school environment. Continue reading If I had a hammer…
Well…the 2009 Board of Elections are almost in the books and the city is a spinning with love. Well, not quite love, but there’s alot of emotion running around. It was, unfortunately, a typical Board of Education turnout from the voters…LOW. People who don’t know the system want to go ahead and blame the turnout on the parents and infer that they must not care about their kids. The reality is that these people had no idea that there was even an election. And why would they, the self fulfilling prophesy of “How to get elected 101″ insures low voter turn out in our inner city as well as helping to create the vicious cycle we call voter apathy. How? I’ll tell ya… Continue reading Recipe for apathy
Dateline: October 27, 2009 – 11 Candidates for the Hartford Board of Education elections came together for, what all reports say was, one of the most successful of such forums held at the Library’s X Room. I had my Tuesday evening Civic Leadership course with CCNE and was kinda bumming as I wanted to hear some [...]
Stardate: Wednesday, October 21 – The Hartford Courant endorses two of the three members of the Working Families slate for the November 3rd Board of Education elections. In total, along with two “also consider” candidates, there were five candidate endorsed by the Courant out of the 13 running. The third candidate endorsed by the Courant was [...]
The most important election for the most thankless job in the city is finally starting to take hold. 13 Candidates are on the ballot for the November 3rd elections and for the first time in Hartford history (me thinks) there is no guarantee that the Democrat slate will garner the maximum amount of seats available to them (3) via city charter. Continue reading Board of Education campaign starts to gear up
In a convention style meeting that rivaled any hilarity that the current City Council could muster, the Democratic Town Committee settled on which three candidates they will put up for Novembers Board of Education members, officially the most thankless job in the municipality. Voters get to vote for three and the top four get appointed. Currently the four elected officials are three Democrats Andrea Comer, Elizabeth Brad Noel, and Luis Rodriguez Davila with one Working Families member, Sharon Patterson-Stallings.
Continue reading Dems pick three BoE candidates…
