In forty years, since public employees won the right to collectively bargain, NO Connecticut governor has ever proposed banning collective bargaining for a group of public employees. No Democrat or Republican or our one Independent governor ever proposed such an inappropriate and immoral step – except this one.
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Gov.Malloy has appointed a Commissioner of Education and proposed an educational reform bill that would closed down public schools, fire all the employees and turn the running of the schools over to private for profit corporate enterprises. His bill was written by corporate lobbyists to benefit for profit charter school corporations. It would give the Commissioner of Education similar powers as was given to the Michigan's town takeover bill. He would be able to void contract and have dictatorial powers in what were once public schools.
CT has one of the largest achievement gaps in our nation because we have very high achieving wealthy school districts and also some of the poorest inner city schools low achieving districts, thus big gap. They wish to blame this on the administrations and the teachers in these low achieving districts and anyone that knows anything about this problem knows that that idea is way off base.
For generations the corporatist have starved public education and demonized teachers and this is just part of their next phase to destroy public education. If they really were interested in improving our children's future they would be working for good paying jobs that lift up families from poverty and allow for stable and nurturing homes for our children, but that would hurt their bottom line and we can't have that. It is about profit and the protection of their wealth creation centers and Gov. Malloy is one of their lackeys.