Jumoke Charter School, with no non-English speaking students or any experience with English Language Learners, to take over neighborhood school where 40 percent of the students go home to households in which English is not the primary language.
One of the most contentious aspects of Governor Malloy’s “education reform” proposal was the section granting Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, the power to take over a local district school, ban collective bargaining, fire the staff and hand the school over to a third party who would then be exempt from having to follow Connecticut’s laws about competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of consultants.
Many were concerned that Pryor, a key player behind Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company that runs twenty schools in New York and
