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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

State Board of Education continues incredible and inappropriate strategy to save Vallas. - Wait, What?

State Board of Education continues incredible and inappropriate strategy to save Vallas. - Wait, What?:

State Board of Education continues incredible and inappropriate strategy to save Vallas.


Despite clear-cut legal rules that limit communication with a judge during the appeal process, late yesterday, a resolution adopted by the Connecticut Board of Education, and signed by Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, was hand-delivered to the Office of the Connecticut Chief Justice.  The Chief Justice is scheduled to rule tomorrow on whether the Supreme Court will review Judge Bellis’ ruling in the case of Lopez v. Vallas.
But the resolution did not come from Attorney General George Jepsen, the State Board of Education’s official legal representative, it came from Paul Vallas’ attorney.

As reported yesterday, the Connecticut Board of Education had schedule an Executive Session to discuss strategy in the case of Lopez v. Vallas, the case in which the