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Bonner Russo.
Today’s shows on WNHH radio made a case for charter schools in Connecticut, bridging the gap between classical music and supporting the hungry. They didn’t make a case for Spike Lee.
It’s pundit Friday! On “Dateline New Haven,” New Haven Independent reporters Markeshia Ricks and Lucy Gellman, Inner City News CT editor Babz Rawls-Ivy, and radio pro Joe Ugly discussed the setback to a Hill development project, Gov. Malloy’s recent move to ban those on the terrorist watch list from buying guns, what “terror” means after San Bernardino, and whether Spike Lee has flubbed with his newest movie, Chi-Raq. To listen to the full episode, click on or download the audio above. Ugly, Rawls-Ivy and Ricks suggested that black people might not feel in a rush to see Spike Lee’s films these days, especially when it comes to his take on women; the discussion of the movie begins at 43:38 in the file.
On “LoveBabz LoveTalk,” Jeremiah Grace, state director of the Northeast Charter Schools Network, joined host Babz Rawls-Ivy to talk about what exactly charter schools are and why they get a bad rap. A proud parent of two common ground students, Rawls-Ivy centered the episode of one big, contested question: are charter schools working? To listen, click on or download the audio above.
On the week’s second episode of “Kitchen Sync,” WNHH station manager Lucy Gellman spoke to Chelsea Tipton II, principal pops conductor for the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Symphony of Southeast Texas, Katie Bonner Russo, director of marketing for the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and David O’ Sullivan, director of New Haven’s Community Soup Kitchen, about an upcoming collaboration. To listen to the full episode, click on or download the audio above.
“This Day in New Haven History” hosts Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle have moved from the WWII battlefield to events at home in 1942. New Haveners learn that a beauty contest means something very different from the usual in war time. One of the entrants in our town’s “Miss Victory” contest is Mrs. Mary Caporale. She’s not only operating a bench power press over at the New Haven Clock Company, which nominated her, she’s also the mom of five kids. One son is with the fighting forces on Guadalcanal and another other just enlisted, having refused a deferment because of an injured back. To listen to the full episode, click on or download the audio above.
Charter School Snake-Oil and Three Card Monte being sold. Common Ground high school is about one of the only public charter school left. Common Ground's founders was teachers, environmentalists, concerned citizens, philanthropists. Today Charter Schools are not public schools .If they were how come the teachers are not in the Public School teacher retirement system? Read this report.
New Report Shines A Light Into The Charter School Black Box
by
Jeff Bryant
A new policy brief from the National Education Policy Center pries at the lid of the charter school black box to shine a light into these institutions and reveal how charter schools blur the line from what it means to be a "public school" and, by their very design, expand opportunities to profiteer from public tax dollars and privatize public assets.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/12/10/new-report-shines-light-charter-school-black-box
Maybe wnhh can have Yohuru Williams on the show or Jeff Bryant.