Tale of two City...schools?

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 [...]

Recipe for apathy

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 [...]

BoE Candidates Forum

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 [...]

Working Families takes the lead by a nose…

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 [...]

Board of Education campaign starts to gear up

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 [...]

Dems pick three BoE candidates…

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.  [...]