Corporate education reform front blasts special Paul Vallas statutory provision that they helped pass
by jonpelto
The overarching question is: Are they that stupid or that ethically bankrupt?
The Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), a corporate funded education reform group that was created to support Governor Malloy’s education reform initiative has done the impossible. It has taken the debate surrounding Paul Vallas to a new level of absurdity.
And their action, today, leaves one to wonder whether these privatization advocates really think Connecticut citizens will fall for their outright lie or whether they are so incompetent that they actually don’t know that the very law that Paul Vallas and Stefan Pryor, Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, violated was part of the legislation written by the Malloy
A truly historic victory over the education-industrial reform complex…
by jonpelto
Standing up to the forces that are working to privatize and destroy American public education: The Case of Lopez v. Vallas (decided June 28, 2013) For the judicial decision go to: http://www.scribd.com/doc/150609033/Vallas-Bridgeport-Decision
Judge Barbara Bellis (Connecticut Superior Court Judge):
“The court orders Paul Vallas be removed from his office.”
Vallas and his witnesses, including Pryor, “were, at times less than candid with the court.”
“There is no doubt that Vallas received preferential treatment.”
“Ultimately, the course standards were reduced…The court accepts Vallas’ testimony that the work, although done over the course of 10 weeks while fulfilling his employment as
