Monday, March 25, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The continuing Vallas saga in Bridgeport

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The continuing Vallas saga in Bridgeport:


The continuing Vallas saga in Bridgeport

Vallas
Kathleen Megan writes in the Hartford Courant:
To hear some tell it, Paul Vallas is the savior of Bridgeport schools, a visionary working to turn around one of the state's lowest-performing districts. Others contend that the schools superintendent is an arrogant reformer, making too much change too quickly, with an agenda to turn education into a profit center.
I'll go with the latter.

Says fellow privateer, Andrew Rotherham: "He's a disaster specialist."

Lindsay Farrell, executive director of the Connecticut Working Families Party, sees Vallas as part of a "national assault" on public education aimed at privatizing