Bridgeport parents ask courts to block schools' takeover
Linda Conner Lambeck, Staff Writer
Updated 11:24 p.m., Wednesday, July 13, 2011
BRIDGEPORT -- Michelle Black Smith-Tompkins told Acting Commissioner of Education George Coleman Wednesday that she can pinpoint the start of the decline of the city school system.
She was in the eighth grade and there were suddenly no books for everyone in her class. She had a mother who did something about it. Others weren't as lucky.
"It's 40 years of decline. It's not five, it's not 10 ... What I am asking you is to please be a standard-bearer and to make the standards plain, that children are not expendable," she said.
It was the last of six audiences Coleman has entertained since Saturday. This group of 200 parents, teachers and
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