After dragging their feet for nearly three months, the Connecticut State Department of Education has finally responded to a Freedom of Information request by releasing a series of documents and emails related to the Charles Barrows STEM Academy that is schedule to open in Windham this coming fall.
Despite multiple claims to the contrary, the documentation that has finally been provided reveals that the Operations Plan on file with the State Department of Education and linked to the Barrows STEM Magnet Academy website is neither the final version of the Operations Plan or a version of the Operations Plan that has been approved by the Windham Board of Education..
According to emails provided in response to the Freedom of Information request, on February 5, 2013, Gabriel Ramos, a Broad Foundation Fellow who is assisting Special Master Adamowski, forwarded a document entitled the “STEM Windham Public Schools