Late last week, Representative Gary Holder-Winfield of New Haven and most of the members of the General Assembly’s Black and Puerto Rican Caucus held a press conference to speak out about Governor Malloy’s “education reform” legislation.
These legislators, some of the finest and most dedicated in the General Assembly, had important things to say about the “education reform” debate.
Despite what the “reformers” sent out in their blast emails, Representative Holder-Winfield made it very clear that the minority legislators were not endorsing Malloy’s version of the “education reform bill” or the governor’s “Commissioner’s Network” plan, but he did say that the minority legislators supported the proposal to allow the commissioner of education to take over a community’s school and give it to a charter school company to run.
Rick Green, the Hartford Courant columnist applauded the legislators saying “successful charter school models — such as Jumoke Academy in Hartford or the Achievement First
