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Had the Connecticut General Assembly not stripped Gov. Dannel Malloy's anti-union provisions, 1,000 - 1,500 public school teachers, in up to 25 mostly poor schools across the state, would have lost their rights to collective bargain. Even scarier: Malloy is Connecticut's least anti-union candidate for governor.

The latest NYT/CBS poll of the Connecticut governor's race is devastating to incumbent Dan Malloy — in particular its assessment of the Democrat's standing among independent voters. In a look at gubernatorial races across the country, in which he affirmed the conventional wisdom that Republicans are likely to do well this fall, Nate Silver recently opined that Tom Foley has a 58 percent chance of winning versus Dan Malloy's 42 percent in a head-to-head rematch of the 2010 gubernatorial contest. But it's not all bad news for Malloy.

In the past two and a half years, Connecticut taxpayers have seen tens of millions of dollars in public funds diverted to feed the monster known as the emerging education reform industry, aka Charter Schools. But over the past few months, the tide has been turning as the truth about Malloy, Malloy's administration, the "education reformers" and the charter schools have been coming out. Now, city and state educators have been served with subpoenas by a federal grand jury.

At the end of May, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy stunned healthcare advocates when he vetoed an important bill that would have required insurance companies to provide data about how much substance abuse coverage and related mental health care they are actually providing Connecticut residents. Considering that the cost of appropriate substance abuse treatment and mental health services is far cheaper and more effective than dealing with the resulting violence and incarceration that often results from inadequate treatment, the bill was extremely appropriate.

At today's State Board of Education meeting, Governor Dannel "Dan" Malloy's appointees will vote to re-commit Connecticut to the Common Core and then vote to divert scarce public funds to new charter schools in Connecticut. Four new charter school applications are up for vote today, and some of them have some scary ties to the Malloy Administration.

Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy is trying to force charter schools down the throats of his constituents. But parents and friends of Clark Elementary School have risen up in anger, stopping the delivery of that school into private hands. The hands of, it turns out, close associates of the Governor.

Video of the dispute between Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy that spilled out quite publicly after a meeting with the President has emerged from the depths of the internet. From minimum wage hikes to Obamacare mandates to the Keystone XL pipeline, these two governors found a way to sneak all the jabs in just a short press conference.

In an extraordinary statement about the fundamental lack of commitment to Connecticut citizens, the Hartford Board of Education will be meeting tonight to authorize Superintendent Christina Kishimoto to extend the Hartford Board of Education's contract with Teach for America, costing Connecticut and Hartford taxpayers an additional $650,940. Meanwhile, 136,500 Connecticut residents remain unemployed including many trained teachers who already hold Connecticut teacher certificates.

Connecticut's right-leaning, education-slashing governor, Dannel Malloy, touted in a press conference Wednesday the "major investment" he was making in Connecticut's public education. After a 5% cut in overall education spending, that is a bold statement, indeed.

With nearly 500 teachers showing up at a Fairfield County meeting last night to meet with their state legislators we are reminded, yet again, that Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor and his entourage of high-priced, out-of-state consultants and personal assistants is the factor most likely to put an end to Malloy's political career.