And the “Cart Before the Horse Award” Goes to…Paul Vallas, Bridgeport’s Superintendent of Schools - Wait, What?

And the “Cart Before the Horse Award” Goes to…Paul Vallas, Bridgeport’s Superintendent of Schools - Wait, What?:

And the “Cart Before the Horse Award” Goes to…Paul Vallas, Bridgeport’s Superintendent of Schools

by jonpelto

The heavy boxes started arriving at Bridgeport schools a couple of months ago.

They were part of a five-year, $10 million contract with textbook publisher Holt McDougal.

Upwards toward $500,000 went toward new textbooks for Bridgeport’s high school English Departments.

When you’re pulling down $229,000 for a part-time job, you can’t sit around and waste time communicating with people.

So, with little to no communication between Bridgeport’s superintendent of schools and the teachers that actually do the teaching, Vallas decided what text books to purchase.

Despite being treated to that “I’m the decision maker - so I don’t need to listen to anyone,” it sounds like there was widespread excitement at the prospect of getting new textbooks