City teachers endorse Working Families & Kelleher
BRIDGEPORT — With the special Board of Education election a week away, city teachers have weighed in with their endorsement.
The Bridgeport Education Association is endorsing Working Family candidates John Bagley and Barbara Pouchet, and Democrat Jacqueline Kelleher.
BEA President Gary Peluchette said a committee of BEA members who live in the city, along with a handful of teachers who live in the city, but teach elsewhere attempted to interview all the candidates. They did not reach them all.
Peluchette said both Working Family Parties candidates are products of the public school system and deserve support. He called Kelleher, a professor at Sacred Heart University, a very smart woman, who put her sons in the city school system as soon as she moved to town last summer.
In all four candidates will be elected to the reconstituted school board. There are nine candidates in all. The public can pick any three and the four highest vote-getters will be elected.
The other candidates include Kenneth Moales and Hernan Illingworth, both Democrats; Karen Jackson, an independent; and three Republicans: Joe Borges, Evelyn Hayes and Wayne Hayes.
The election will take place Tuesday, Sept. 4.
Linda Conner Lambeck
I am a reporter for the Connecticut Post, in Bridgeport CT with a focus on education.
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