New State Board of Education member collects multi-million dollar contract via State Board of Education
Ethics for public officials? Not so much.
One of Governor Dannel Malloy’s recent appointees to the Connecticut State Board of Education is not only a representative of the charter school industry but his company is collecting a multi-million dollar contract that is funded and managed by the State Department of Education and the very board he has been appointed to.
Although this article was first published at Wait, What? on December 23, 2015, the Malloy administration has refused to comment.
A News Update from Jonathan Pelto and Wendy Lecker
While Connecticut’s public schools continue to suffer from inadequate state funding and Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration strive to undermine, dismiss and destroy the CCJEF school funding lawsuit that would finally ensure that Connecticut meets its State Constitutional obligation to provide all students with a quality education, Malloy’s corporate education reform initiative has fueled an unprecedented growth of charter schools in Connecticut. The Charter School Industry now collects in excess of $100 million a year from Connecticut taxpayers.
Privately owned and operated, but funded with taxpayer dollars, Connecticut’s Charter Schools have consistently failed to educate their fair share of students that require special education services and English Language Learners who aren’t fluent in the English Language.
Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, earned national notoriety when news broke about the shocking number of kindergarten and first graders suspended at their schools. The New State Board of Education member collects multi-million dollar contract via State Board of Education - Wait What?: