It was only a month ago that, fresh off the 2012 state-wide Connecticut Mastery Tests, Bridgeport’s $229,000 part-time superintendent of schools, Paul Vallas, announced that Bridgeport’s students would be given yet another battery of standardized tests at the beginning of June.
Despite a massive school budget deficit, in which Vallas was forced to lay-off teachers and other school personnel, it was announced that Bridgeport was able to come up with the money needed to pay for another round of expensive standardized testing. Word out of the Central Office was that Vallas had gotten “a good deal” on the tests.
According to a memo sent to teachers in the last week of April, Vallas and his traveling entourage or education reformers, said that they had determined that, “traditionally,
