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Connecticut Association of Boards of Education selling its members

April 11, 2012 at 12:03 pm by 

by Jon Pelto from Wait, What

Last week, the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education joined with their coalition of business and “Education Reform” groups to attack the Democratic legislators on the Education Committee for their efforts to remove the worst provisions of Governor Dan Malloy’s “Education Reform” bill.
At a State Capitol press conference, CABE and the other groups, claimed that “The original version of Senate Bill 24 offered Connecticut an opportunity to take bold, fundamental actions to change the system” and went on to demand that the legislature “bring back those proposals.”

And yet some of those proposals fundamentally undermine the role of Connecticut’s local boards of education and severely damage the very organizations that CABE was created to protect.
CABE – The Connecticut Association of Boards of Education – is made up of 151 school districts and claims that it “serves local and regional boards of education in Connecticut and is dedicated to improving