Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: After being ousted as Bridgeport Supt., Vallas gets schools to pay his legal fees

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: After being ousted as Bridgeport Supt., Vallas gets schools to pay his legal fees:

After being ousted as Bridgeport Supt., Vallas gets schools to pay his legal fees

 “We thought we had a good guy,” said Tammy Boyle, a parent leader and mother of two children. “But at each and every turn, he has ignored the wishes and the voices of the people of Bridgeport.” -- New York Times

The great education hustler and architect of top-down "reform", Paul Vallas, has pulled off yet another great hustle. After being ousted from his job as Bridgeport's superintendent by a superior court judge, Vallas has the cash-strapped school district paying his legal fees.Vallas must have learned the tactic from Chicago's torturing cop, Jon Burge who soaked the city for millions in legal fees before finally being put away. Of course, I'm not comparing Vallas' to Burge. Just saying.

I received this statement from Taylor Leake, Communications Director of the Connecticut