What the heck is the Capital Prep Scholarship Fund?
The Capital Prep Magnet School website informs supporters that they can make “tax-deductible” donations to the Capital Prep Scholarship Fund. Donations can be made via a PayPal link or checks can be...
View ArticleYup, Capital Prep’s Steve Perry Tweets about the dangers of Social Media…
Dr. Steve Perry @DrStevePerry Social media has had a net negative affect on schools. Kids & adults are free to tee off on each other & the schools are left to clean it up (December 18, 2013)...
View ArticleMichele Rhee’s StudentsFirst rally to support Steve Perry; Board fails to...
At last night’s Hartford Board of Education meeting Hartford Superintendent Christina Kishimoto and Hartford Board of Education Chairman Matt Poland failed to address the status of the promised...
View ArticleNEWS FLASH: Steve Perry’s use of private email account will not shield...
A set of emails acquired by Wait, What? reveals that as early as November 2012, a year before the Hartford Board of Education voted to reject a secret deal to hand Capital Prep Magnet School and...
View ArticleIMPORTANT UPDATE: As schools scramble to get children home safe, Steve Perry...
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The initial version of this post was inaccurate. Although Capital Prep is part of the Hartford School System it is not on the same academic schedule as Hartford’s other schools. My...
View ArticleCapital Prep STILL NOT complying with Connecticut’s bullying laws
As parents and teachers are reporting, Capital Prep’s school climate is one in which child on child and workplace bullying is rampant. Incredibly, Capital Prep remains out of compliance with the most...
View ArticleA look at Steve Perry’s record of absenteeism and use of social media to...
On Tuesday January 21, 2014 the Hartford Board of Education will hold a special executive session to discuss Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry. The public has the opportunity to address the Hartford...
View ArticleCorporate funded education reform group speaks out for Steve Perry
After reading the latest from Achieve Hartford Inc., it is hard to know quite what to say. In a not so veiled attack on Wait, What? and those who have been demanding that Perry be held accountable to...
View ArticleNo one is above the law, not even Capital Prep Steve Perry (a re-cap)
The Hartford Board of Education will be holding its rescheduled board meeting tonight at the Journalism & Media Academy Magnet School which is located at 150 Tower Avenue in Hartford. The public...
View ArticleNew pictures paint even more serious concerns about child abuse at Capital Prep
New pictures paint even more serious concerns about child abuse at Capital Prep Over the last few months, Wait, What? readers have learned about Steve Perry’s efforts to humiliate, punish and bully...
View ArticleNEWS FLASH: Executive Session on Steve Perry re-appears on Hartford BOE agenda
The agenda is out for the Special Meeting of the Hartford Board of Education to be held on Tuesday, February 4, 2014. The meeting beings at 5:30 pm at the Fred E. Wish Museum School located at 350...
View ArticleCapital Prep “Table of Shame” Steve Perry on the notion of “Professional...
When the Hartford Board of Education meets in executive session tonight to discuss the bizarre behavior of Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry, let us hope that they have a copy of The Connecticut Code...
View ArticleNEWS FLASH: Did Capital Prep corrupt School Choice Lottery process to enroll...
Last August, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference stepped in to investigate serious allegations of inappropriate even illegal, recruitment of student-athletes by Capital Prep Magnet...
View ArticleBreaking News: Citizens prevented from addressing Hartford Board of Education...
At tonight’s Hartford Board of Education meeting, the outgoing Chairman of the Hartford Board of Education, Matt Poland, used a procedural maneuver to prevent Hartford parents and other concerned...
View ArticleHello CT and Hartford officials… Is there anyone who will confront the...
Are there any elected or appointed official in Connecticut who have the courage and conviction to actually ensure the laws of this state are equitably enforced? Student-athlete recruitment by...
View ArticleNEWS FLASH: Pryor reportedly giving Hartford’s Clark Elementary School to...
Sources close to Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor report that the Charter School loving Commissioner of Education has committed to give Hartford’s Clark Elementary School to...
View ArticleSteve Perry, the reader known as “Reality Ed” and disaster known as Capital Prep
As Wait, Wait? has investigated the allegations associated with Capital Prep Steve Perry and the potential violations of federal and state laws and Hartford regulations and policies at Capital Prep,...
View ArticleCorporate Education Reform Industry targets students, parents and teachers of...
Three days ago, in a post entitled NEWS FLASH: Pryor reportedly giving Hartford’s Clark Elementary School to Washington D.C. Charter School Chain, Wait What? readers learned of an apparent deal by...
View ArticleHartford’s Matt Poland lashes out at citizens who write to him about his...
Appointed by Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra, Matt Poland serves as a member of the Hartford Board of Education. While he will remain on the Board, Poland is stepping down as Chairman tonight and...
View ArticleMayor Segarra and Matt Poland lead 6-2 vote to give TFA $650,000
There will be 210 fewer job openings in the Hartford School System for Connecticut residents thanks to Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra, Matt Poland and their allies on the Hartford Board of Education....
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