Wait, What? readers will recall Governor Malloy’s original “Education Reform” proposal which created the “Commissioner’s Network,” a system in which Stefan Pryor, Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, would be given the authority to take over a series of local schools, remove the existing staff, ban collective bargaining and turn the schools over to some third-party who would then be exempt from the state’s laws requiring competitive bidding and limiting the use of consultants.
A modified version of his proposal passed the Legislature and is now being implemented.
For example, Pryor is taking control of the Milner School in Hartford and handing it over to the Jumoke Charter School company. Commissioner Pryor is taking this action despite
