Message from Connecticut: do not expect real funding reform « Parents Across America

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Message from Connecticut: do not expect real funding reform

by leoniehaimson

The pro-charter organization Conn-Can is expanding nationwide as 50-CAN, including into NY State where it is pushing the Parent Trigger. Wendy Lecker is a public school parent, former president of the Stamford Parent Teacher Council, and was staff attorney at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, plaintiffs in a school funding lawsuit in New York. She writes below about need for real funding reform and the countervailing influence of Conn-CAN. This column is cross posted at the Stamford Advocate.

On January 5, Governor Malloy convened a full day of “multi-stakeholder” workshops in New Britain to discuss his “bold” education agenda. The school funding workshop left little hope that the governor plans any real school finance reform. For Stamford residents, this