Make your voice heard. Support Public Education.

Tomorrow night, interim Bpt. Superintendent Vallas will be speaking at the Bridgeport Aquaculture Center.

Vallas represents the worst of the heavy-handed, anti-democratic, corporatist, trend to privatize public education.  His previous assignments as superintendent has left a wake of dismantled school systems in New Orleans and Philadelphia.  New Orleans school system has been handed over almost completely to charter schools and Philadelphia is in the process of closing 40 schools with another 6 to close each year until 2017.  These schools would be sold off to privately run, for profit charter companies which studies show are no more or less effective than similar traditional public schools over 80% of the time.

He represents the efforts of Malloy, Pryor, and groups like ConnCAN to privatize education here in Connecticut.  He has been very successful in other parts of the country.  Come out tomorrow night to show your support for public education.

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