Another boondoggle in the making: At a cost of more than $12 million to CT Taxpayers - Wait, What?

Another boondoggle in the making: At a cost of more than $12 million to CT Taxpayers - Wait, What?:

Another boondoggle in the making: At a cost of more than $12 million to CT Taxpayers

by jonpelto

On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 the Connecticut’s State Board of Education is scheduled to vote on a proposed new charter school for Windham, Connecticut called The Path Academy. 

The Path Academy is a project of Our Piece of the Pie, a Hartford-based “youth development agency” that seeks to “help young people access and attain a mix of the educational, employment, and personal skills that contribute to their success.”

One of their goals is to help “over-age, under-credit (OU) students” get a high school diploma.  The term is a bit misleading because it doesn’t mean that the student is over 21 or even 18.  In many cases it just means the student has had academic problems and