Surprise: Bridgeport Board of Education votes 5-3 to ask Pryor to waive Paul Vallas’ Certification - Wait, What?

Surprise: Bridgeport Board of Education votes 5-3 to ask Pryor to waive Paul Vallas’ Certification - Wait, What?:

Surprise: Bridgeport Board of Education votes 5-3 to ask Pryor to waive Paul Vallas’ Certification

by jonpelto

Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can now officially claim that he has the authority to waive Paul Vallas’ certification requirements following last night’s vote of the Bridgeport Board of Education.

With certification purportedly waived, Paul Vallas, the self-described Michael Jordon of Education, can become the only non-certified permanent superintendent of schools in Connecticut.  Steven Adamowski is also non-certified but he is “only” the special master of the Windham and New London School Systems.

The highlight of the meeting was when the Chairman of the Bridgeport School Board, Kenneth Moales, Jr. told his fellow members that the board should not question the