Connecticut State Board of Education

Economizing in schools is illegal; and four years of paid leave drag on

By CHRIS POWELL Hamden Mayor Adam Sendroff says the town is in “a financial crisis.” Indeed, the town long has been struggling financially. So the mayor has asked town departments to reduce their budgets by 5%. Connecticut’s minimum wage increase indicates worsening poverty ‘Affordability’ doesn’t apply to cost of state employees Mayor panders to theContinue reading “Economizing in schools is illegal; and four years of paid leave drag on”

‘Intervention’ in Bridgeport is just cover for a bailout

By Chris Powell Last week Governor Lamont and his education commissioner, Charlene Russell-Tucker, went to Bridgeport to discuss what news organizations described as state government’s “intervention” in the impoverished city’s horribly performing schools. But the “intervention” was mainly for show. For the State Board of Education’s three-part plan for the city’s schools practically proclaims thatContinue reading “‘Intervention’ in Bridgeport is just cover for a bailout”