Yeah, her legal counsel is doing so on her behalf. It isn’t like she is actually drafting the complaint herself.
That is presuming the idea of holding one’s own government accountable via the government’s mechanisms isn’t the shocking thing for you. The people of Connecticut have a constitutional right to a free public education. When that right is violated they have standing to file a civil lawsuit to be heard by a judge and jury.
I don’t doubt she will. CT’s Constitution’s Article 18 provides for a free public education. She seems to have been denied that here.
Paragraph 1: 1) Use proper nouns more. 2) have you been to Hartford? 3) Teachers wouldn’t need to teach for a test that was so simple as to not graduate an illiterate high school senior. But I agree the standard NCLB imposed was very detrimental.
Paragraph 2: “people like you insist that local taxes should pay most of it.” Go back re read what I’ve written. I support a ban on any funding education from municipalities. It should be ideally all done on a state level to balance accountability with equality of outcome.
My stance is that in practice municipal property tax pays for most education. Not that that is a good thing.
Hartford’s funding is mostly subsidized by the state with the municipality paying little. That is an issue as they receive (under the current system) what is needed from the state but not what is needed from the municipality. Because Hartford is broke. This is the fault in an education system where each town pays for a part of the educational spend with municipal property taxes.
The idea that anyone would pay taxes to support a k-12 education that doesn’t even produce literacy is not manufactured outrage. It demeans the name of the state. CT doesn’t come up much and it is an embarrassment when it does because of such a failure.
Paragraph 3: Yeah I agree. The issue is that you can’t spend more on public schools when you don’t have more money to do so. Which creates a circular issue.
I agree it isn’t about probably isn’t about just Aleysha to them. And it shouldn’t be. The fact that it could be truly said about anyone is an indictment of the system alone.
But I don’t agree this is a wedge issue. I’ve never met one human being who opposes the idea of taxes paying for a k-12 education or accepts the results of such being illiteracy.
You somehow manage to willfully misread or miss the entire point. Yes of course Hartford can’t match the per student municipal funding of suburban Connecticut. That is why I said that the issue is the school funding is being done on the municipal level.
Municipal property taxes paying for schools reduces the equalizing effect that state funding should have.
Yes, New England Republicans do tend to be much different than other states. No educational spending is not solely tied to party platform that ignores that blue states on average have higher house hold incomes and GDP due to historical & socioeconomic factors.
This is just yelling at clouds rather than seeking meaningful solutions to resolve issue. You are complaining that senators are upset about the failure of the educational system. Btw one of those senators introduced legislation to prevent this from happening again. Link.
They’re certainly not going to admit to systemic failures.
Did you read the article? What do you think “State Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding and Sen. Eric Berthel said in their Dec. 19 letter. ‘We continue to seek accountability as to how this student was illiterate when she graduated and how the system failed her year after year’” they meant when they wrote this.
I was stating the CT Republicans had little to no impact on the outcome of this student’s education because they have little impact on local politics in such a blue area. And resulting should have no reason to presume that any policy stances of their have an impact on the people of Hartford.
If Trump stripped the Dept of Education on day one that still would be irrelevant here as this student is the victim of over a decade of the school system failing them.
On your BTW, my point wasn’t about Hartford’s education costs but more on broader educational costs. In suburban CT well funded schools get nearly 70% of their expenses paid for by local property taxes. The failure of the city of Hartford to raise funds on the municipal level vs other municipalities is relevant here. Which of course stems from the difference in economics status between their citizens. Hence my critique of local funding playing such a big role.
CT has some of the finest public schools in the nation. But they sure as hell are not the ones in Hartford.
“Republican play book” dude it’s Connecticut. And none the less Hartford. That city hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1971.
The issue is that educational funding is predominantly on the municipal level, rather than the state level.
The only mention in the article about Republicans is the CT Republicans being outraged about how the schools have failed this child. Which is entirely justifiable.
But rather than look at the underlying system issues lets resort to flinging mud at people who had zero impact in the current situation.
This is a motion to dismiss not an answer. That’s how those work. It is linked to by the journalist in the article.
Dude touch grass if someone wants to post cringe that’s on them but responding to every one of their comments is just harassment.
Re-read my comment above. They only have power which we vest in them.
How can they listen to the voters if the voters never speak to them. My comment was not on the DNC or RNC but on the core of all forms of representative democracies.
Do you know the name of the member of your state’s House of Representatives that represents your district? When was the last time you spoke to your federal representative? Do he/she not answer your calls because they have to many constituents? Talk to people in your neighborhood about the need for more representatives in the house.
All sovereign power comes from the people. Read: you are that guy.
Shout out to the menial workers at Apple Maps who are going to have a crap day at work tomorrow because of the thing their boss made them do, so they don’t get fired and replaced by someone else who would do it.
I agree with the sentiment on Gulf of Americas. But I think the singular (and referring to land of both continents) makes more sense. Firstly because it rolls off the tongue better. Secondly because the existence of the ‘North America’ and ‘South America’ both imply that those lands are parts of a larger body of land called America. North America being the Northern half of America. While South America presides in the Southern half.
‘America’ being the United States is only reinforced by the fact that the United States is the most significant nation in global politics East of the Pacific and West of the Atlantic.
Saying it disproportionately promotes any type of content is hard to prove without first establishing how much of the whole is made up by that type.
The existence of proportionately more “right” leaning content than “left” leaning content could adequately explain the outcomes.
Yeah no one is fingerprinting a possession case.
And if your aunt was a man, she’d be your uncle.
If I create a community and it gets 1k members I’m not a businessman.
A stateless society is one with a power vacuum. Some one will claim the title of leader and often it’ll be someone of little virtue.
College students can be eligible for SNAP & HUD.