Wall Street Journal Reports on Hedge Fund Managers Back Channel Effort to Takeover Connecticut School District | Scathing Purple Musings

Wall Street Journal Reports on Hedge Fund Managers Back Channel Effort to Takeover Connecticut School District | Scathing Purple Musings

Wall Street Journal Reports on Hedge Fund Managers Back Channel Effort to Takeover Connecticut School District

by Bob Sikes

While the WSJ doesn’t include in its story that it was a Walton Family funded group whom facilitated the relationship, it reports on the curious contact between a billionaire hedge funder and the Connecticut State Board of Education to prompt the private takeover of Bridgeport schools.

Dating back as far as January, emails referencing a state takeover of the Bridgeport public school system were exchanged between the Bridgeport Schools
Superintendent John Ramos, the state board of education head Allan Taylor,Coleman, and Meghan