Commissioner Pryor, can you tell us which laws are “laws” and which are “bureaucratic technicalities”?
It looked pretty simple. Governor Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, wrote up a special law to allow Paul Vallas to serve as Bridgeport’s superintendent of schools, despite the fact that Vallas wasn’t certified to hold the position nor has he ever taken an education course.
The law required that Vallas works as an acting superintendent for one year and complete a “school leadership program” at a Connecticut university or college.
Instead of enrolling and completing a school leadership program, Paul Vallas took a single independent study course and pretended it was a program.
Last Friday, when Connecticut Judge Bellis ruled that Paul Vallas and Stefan Pryor had violated Connecticut law and that Paul Vallas did not have the credentials necessary to serve as a superintendent in Connecticut; Commissioner Pryor was one of the first to
