A Public Agency with a Double Standard: The State Department of Education - Wait, What?

A Public Agency with a Double Standard: The State Department of Education - Wait, What?:

A Public Agency with a Double Standard: The State Department of Education

by jonpelto

Connecticut’s Department of Education uses one standard for judging charter schools and a very different standard when it comes to the public schools in Connecticut’s 169 towns.

And considering the Connecticut Commissioner of Education’s close relationship with Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company that owns 20 schools in Connecticut and New York, the standard for charter schools is not only more lenient but rewards failure.

The following is a longer version of a commentary piece that ran in today’s Stamford Advocate and Bridgeport Post.  It is co-written by fellow Public Education Advocate and