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Eduardo Alberto "Eddie" Perez (born 1957) is a politician of Puerto Rican origin and served as mayor of Hartford, Connecticut from 2001-2010.〔http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/topics/?topic=Eddie+Perez〕 Prior to entering politics, Perez worked as a community organizer. Perez served as the first Mayor who was also the CEO of the city and was widely credited with reducing crime, reforming the school system and sparking economic revitalization in the city.〔http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/documents/government/htfd_courant_102807_1.asp〕 Perez's investment in educational reform and appointment of new leadership at the Board of Education led to significant increases in high school graduation rates in the city.〔http://ctmirror.org/graduation-rates-give-malloy-a-campaign-talking-point/〕 On December 9, 2013 the Connecticut Appellate Court overturned Perez's state court conviction on bribery, fabricating evidence, and conspiracy to fabricate evidence in connection with the failed development of a vacant site and improvements to his home by a city contractor,〔http://www.kxnet.com/getArticle.asp?ArticleId=593759〕 and vacated his sentence.〔http://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-hartford-perez-appeal-1210-20131209,0,5024262.story〕 That decision currently is under review by the Connecticut Supreme Court.〔http://appellateinquiry.jud.ct.gov/CaseDetail.aspx?CRN=48993&Type=CaseName〕 ==Youth and early career== Eddie Alberto Pérez was born in 1957 in Corozal, Puerto Rico, where he spent most of his childhood. In 1969 the Pérez family moved to Hartford, Connecticut, which had a growing number of Puerto Rican immigrants already living there. Puerto Ricans had first come to central Connecticut in significant numbers in the 1940s to work in the region's tobacco fields.〔http://biography.jrank.org/pages/3187/P-rez-Eddie-Alberto-1957-Political-Leader.html#ixzz2nN3GuhQi〕 Eddie was also a high-ranking member of the Latin Kings in Hartford. Beginning in 1979 as a Vista volunteer, Perez founded O.N.E./C.H.A.N.E., a grassroots neighborhood organization dedicated to improving the housing and economic conditions in North Hartford. He then joined Make Something Happen as its director, in order to help the public housing residents in Hartford’s Stowe Village. In 1990, Perez became Trinity’s director of community and government relations.〔http://www.trincoll.edu/pub/Press%20Releases/alum-perez.htm〕 In 1999, Perez became the President of the Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance, an organization sponsored by Trinity College and Hartford Hospital. As SINA’s president, Perez was instrumental in the foundation and implementation of the $250 million Learning Corridor,〔http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/documents/history/htfd_news_021810.asp〕 as a national model for education and public/private cooperation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eddie Perez (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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