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Under the Rug

ChanceKell — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:42:07 GMT

Typical Courant response to controversy: delete the offending post & pretend it never happened. At least there was some public acknowledgement this time around.

Despite removing the blog post, the comments are still lingering around: http://discussions.courant.com...

I would really love to sit down with whoever moderates Courant.com and see how they work. Considering the handful of non-vulgar, pertinent comments I wrote only to see disappear in cyberspace; either the more conservative commentators overwhelm the blogs with comments, the moderators are less likely to block them, or both.

Give a lot to get a little

dkfennell — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:06:55 GMT

I guess supporting the Bush tax cuts for the rich allows you to rake in the bucks.

Thanks for exposing the myth that....

KillingworthDem — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:39 GMT

public school teachers can stay for life. As a retired teacher of 33 years, I can tell you that teachers want nothing more than having a administrator doing their job and moving teachers that can not do a good job out. Our students are important and it is poor administrators that cause a large part of the problems. I think there is a saying about a fish rots from the head down and that is often true of schools.

So how is Malloy's attack on teachers different than the Republican Governor's attacks on teachers?

Larkspur — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:25:37 GMT

If CT was WI or OH or any other "purple" state ruled by Republicans, would we be marching in the streets wtih the teacher's union?

Being a teacher has no appeal to me, but my mother was an elementary school teacher and she loved teaching. Some people have innate teacher traits and they need to be encouraged to become teachers.

The low pay and constant demonizing by the political caste would certainly keep the "best and brightest" from wanting to be teachers. It's almost as if the corporate masters and their political puppets would want to outsource teacher jobs or replace American born teachers with cheap labor from India, just like they are doing to the rest of the jobs that Americans once held.

Looks Like Bob Englehart's parents

Jon Kantrowitz — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:43:47 GMT

raised a loser.

He wants to completely eliminate teacher tenure!

Jon Kantrowitz — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:45:25 GMT

That's what his proposal requiring teachers to requalify frequently essentially does.

Let 'em keep it up

chele — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:09:43 GMT

Let the Church ramp up their opposition to contraception.

Once people (women!) realize that the Catholic bishops want to force ALL Americans to live by their anti-contraception religious rules, maybe they'll see there's no "war against religion" but a modern-day Crusade by the Catholic Church against everyone with differing beliefs. The more the Church shows its hand, the better it is.

Many Catholic Universities, Hospitals Already Cover Contraception In Their Health Insurance Plans

Larkspur — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:07:31 GMT

Many Catholic Universities, Hospitals Already Cover Contraception In Their Health Insurance Plans
Catholic leaders and the GOP presidential candidates have intentionally distorted the Obama administration's new rule requiring employers and insurers to provide reproductive health benefits at no additional cost sharing. Conservatives are seeking a way to politically unite Republican voters around a social issue and portray the regulation as a big government intrusion into religious liberties. In reality, the mandate is modeled on existing rules in six states, exempts houses of worship and other religious nonprofits that primarily employ and serve people of faith, and offers employers a transitional period of one year to determine how best to comply with the rule.
It's also nothing new. Twenty-eight states already require organizations that offer prescription insurance to cover contraception and since 98 percent of Catholic women use birth control, many Catholic institutions offer the benefit to their employees. For instance, a Georgetown University spokesperson told ThinkProgress yesterday that employees "have access to health insurance plans offered and designed by national providers to a national pool. These plans include coverage for birth control."
SNIP

So the Reich wing and the Catholic Bishops are throwing inane temper tantrums over their lack of authority over the 98% of Catholic women who already use artificial birth control.

No fan of Joe Doucheborough or the Catholic Bishops

Larkspur — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:50:22 GMT

I agree with Rachel Maddow who on Meet the Press said that the Catholic Bishops outcry over covering contraception is a very good reason why health care should be a publicly funded service not an employee based one.

To me the Catholic Bishops are a bunch of hypocrites and one of the major reasons why I left the Church in 1990. They had no problem concealing pedophile priests, who raped children, yet they raise hackles over adult and teenage women having birth control covered by their employers.

The Reich wing is intentionally trying to make a bigger deal of this complaint than it should be. The majority of Catholic women use or support artificial contraception. Seems to me that the Bishops are being ignored by half of their flock on this issue.

He's probably lost 41,000 votes the next election

Sue — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:56:18 GMT

http://online.wsj.com/article/...

RD-Connecticut would pump more money into charter schools and increase their numbers under a legislative proposal Gov. Dannel Malloy plans to unveil Monday.
[MALLOY] Jason Andrew for The Wall Street Journal
Gov. Dannel Malloy on Thursday
Mr. Malloy's plan would hike funding for alternative schools such as charters by $21.6 million and bring per-pupil government funding for their students closer to that of traditional public schools, said people familiar with the governor's thinking. The number of state charter schools would go up to 22 from 17.

Not 'spot on' for the 41,000 CEA members.