By Chris Powell Governor Lamont and state Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker are being cheered for refusing to certify to the U.S. Education Department that state government is in compliance with the Trump administration’s view of civil rights law. The administration’s view is that “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” the slogan of leftist education, is unconstitutional becauseContinue reading “Trump isn’t what’s wrong with education in Connecticut”
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Rule of law and democracy are abused by Trump’s foes in Connecticut too
By Chris Powell While Donald Trump is reckless, a bully, and sometimes worse, his return to the presidency was caused in part by the sort of hypocrisy shown by the thousands of people who last week protested him in Connecticut and across the country. Who’d want to be governor amid what’s lurking ahead? Connecticut’s electionsContinue reading “Rule of law and democracy are abused by Trump’s foes in Connecticut too”
McMahon is qualified at last by the shrieks of teacher unions
By Chris Powell By conventional standards wrestling entrepreneur Linda McMahon’s qualifications to become the next U.S. education secretary are a bit thin. She has had two years on Connecticut’s feckless State Board of Education, many years on the Board of Trustees of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, and two years as chief of the U.S.Continue reading “McMahon is qualified at last by the shrieks of teacher unions”
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