Meanwhile in Bridgeport, the Vallas no-bid contract gravy trains chugs along
by jonpelto
As Connecticut’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor faces more and more criticism about his use of no-bid contracts, Bridgeport’s Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas continues to remind people that it was Pryor who recruited him to Connecticut.
Vallas has been mired in his own no-bid contract controversy since his arrival in the state, but with a Board of Education, where five of the nine Bridgeport Board of Education members are in Mayor Finch’s camp on all votes, the plan to extend Vallas’ contract continues to take shape.
Despite growing opposition from parents and others, the Board is presently completing their “evaluation” of Vallas and the plan appears to be to push through the contract
And in Windham… Non-approved Operations Plan for the Charles H. Barrows STEM Academy filed with the state
by jonpelto
Two weeks have passed and the State Department of Education still hasn’t responded to a Freedom of Information request for a copy of the Operations Plan that Windham filed for the new Charles H. Barrows STEM Academy, but a staff person at the Department of Education has confirmed that the document filed IS NOT the version approved by the Windham Board of Trustees.
Wait, What? readers will remember the issues surrounding Windham’s new STEM Magnet School.
The Operations Plan approved by the Board of Education included a restriction limiting students from transferring into the new school if they were not reading at grade level by
