Misleading media and public, Malloy Administration’s legislation to “Reform SERC” exempts agency from bidding laws - Wait, What?

Misleading media and public, Malloy Administration’s legislation to “Reform SERC” exempts agency from bidding laws - Wait, What?:

Misleading media and public, Malloy Administration’s legislation to “Reform SERC” exempts agency from bidding laws

by jonpelto

It is a move that George Orwell would be proud of; Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, the State Board of Education and the Malloy Administration recently explained that they were proposing a new law to ensure transparency and force the State Education Resource Center (SERC) to follow the state’s bidding laws.

However, the proposed legislation is actually written in such a way as TO EXEMPT SERCfrom having to follow the state’s bidding laws.

To date, the media and observers have taken the Malloy Administration at their word, and while critical of Commissioner Pryor’s use of SERC to end-run Connecticut’s bidding laws, reports have been that Pryor was leading the charge to end the practice he, himself, had used to direct contracts to vendors that he had worked with in the past.

But I digress, let’s go back and start at the beginning of this story;

Upon arriving as Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor used the