Education Reformer Vallas reverses course, now open to keeping part-time, $234,000 Bridgeport superintendent’s job. - Wait, What?

Education Reformer Vallas reverses course, now open to keeping part-time, $234,000 Bridgeport superintendent’s job. - Wait, What?:

Education Reformer Vallas reverses course, now open to keeping part-time, $234,000 Bridgeport superintendent’s job.

by jonpelto

Just before the Christmas holiday, the Only in Bridgeport blog reported that Paul Vallas has changed his mind and that although he is scheduled to leave his post as Bridgeport’s Superintendent of Schools in June, “he’d be open to an extended contract offer from the Board of Education beyond the end of the school year in June.”

Vallas told OIB, “I would be open to discussing staying beyond June should the current Board decide that this would be in the best interest of Bridgeport’s students and community at large.”

OIB observed that, “The larger questions center on his education interests around the country through his consulting practice as well his tolerance for the dissent on the current elected school board. Majority school board members want Vallas to stay.”

I don’t know exactly what OIB means about Vallas’ “tolerance for dissent,” although Vallas