Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch Says: Get Democracy out of Board of Education! - Wait, What?

Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch Says: Get Democracy out of Board of Education! - Wait, What?:

Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch Says: Get Democracy out of Board of Education!

by jonpelto

After working for more than a year, Mayor Bill Finch has finally succeeded in ensuring that the voters of Bridgeport will have the opportunity to change their City Charter, this November, and wipe out Bridgeport’s democratically elected board of education once and for all.

According to Finch, the initiative’s strongest supporter, shifting control of Bridgeport’s Schools away from democratically elected citizens and, instead, giving the power and control to him, is the best way to get “adult politics out of education.”

In today’s story, written by the CT Post and Hearst Newspaper’s Brian Lockhart, Finch claims that giving him and his appointees control of the school budget and the responsibility to hire top school administrators is, “probably the most important thing the