News Flash: Team Vallas Addresses Special Education Funding Issue (sort of) - Wait, What?

News Flash: Team Vallas Addresses Special Education Funding Issue (sort of) - Wait, What?:

News Flash: Team Vallas Addresses Special Education Funding Issue (sort of)

by jonpelto

As readers have seen, the last two Wait, What? blog posts have dealt with the amount of money Bridgeport has allocated for their special education programs in this year’s budget.

With the vote for a democratically elected board of education on September 4th, the issue of transparency and honesty becomes extremely important.

Yesterday afternoon, Paul Vallas’ Chief of Staff released a statement refuting the numbers that I had posted about the City’s special education budget.

On Tuesday, I wrote, “Bridgeport’s new city budget eliminates 90 percent of the money