Outside interests were working behind the scenes to reconstitute school board
Linda Conner Lambeck, Staff Writer
Updated 04:25 p.m., Thursday, August 4, 2011
- Blackham School teacher Chris Kinsley hands his resume to Acting Commissioner George Coleman to let him know he's ready to step up and help as part of the new board of education, before Coleman speaks to members of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council in Bridgeport on Tuesday July 12, 2011. Coleman has been tasked to pick a replacement Board of Education for Bridgeport. Photo: Christian Abraham / Connecticut Post | Buy This Photo
HARTFORD -- A consultant for a Greenwich billionaire interested in education reform was advocating behind the scenes for charter changes that would give the mayor control of the Bridgeport school board at the same time that local and city officials were also looking to reconstitute the board, email correspondence released to Hearst Connecticut Newspapers revealed.
Meghan Lowney, of Fairfield, who works for hedge fund philanthropist Steve Mandel, tried first to find a way to create a mayor-controlled school board through a charter change and then to get the board reconstituted.
Numerous email exchanges between Lowney and State
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