By Victor | Published: April 4, 2012
By Ben Velderman
EAG Communications
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A day after hosting a pro-education reform rally at the state capitol, the president of the Connecticut Parents Union was fired from her job as a workshop presenter with New Haven Public Schools’ Head Start Program.
CTPU President Gwen Samuel believes the local teachers union – the [...]
Posted in Daily Updates | Also tagged #edreform, #education, #kyleolson4, @eagfdn, AFT, American Federation of Teachers, Connecticut Parents Union, CTPU President Gwen Samuel, EAG, Education Action Group, Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven Public Schools' Head Start Program, Parent trigger, Randi Weingarten, StudentsFirst, teachers union
By Victor | Published: March 9, 2012
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has been making the rounds throughout the state, promoting his education reform plan, which he has promised will be “the most far-reaching in our state’s history.”
The Democratic governor wants increase the number of charter schools and revise teacher tenure and seniority, among other things.
When Gov. Malloy stopped at Brookside [...]
By Jason | Published: February 14, 2012
MERIDEN, Conn. – Ask Gwen Samuel to describe just what her Connecticut Parents Union does, and she’ll begin by explaining what it doesn’t do.
”This is not a parents union that sells brownies to raise money for the local school,” Samuel tells EAG. “There’s no brownie baking here.”
Instead, the Connecticut Parents Union (CTPU) [...]
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By Ben | Published: March 29, 2011
Effective teachers have nothing to fear from policy change
Education Action Group applauds the Corpus Christi Independent School District for its decision to phase out the practice of “continuing contracts,” a kissing cousin to much-maligned teacher tenure laws.
Both are antiquated practices that only serve as stumbling blocks for schools that are increasingly concerned with [...]
