As Bridgeport Superintendent of Schools Vallas rolled out his plans for a revamped Bridgeport education system, he included the creation of a “Good Schools Bridgeport Foundation” which will “support the school district by securing public and private funding that…and to use that funding to help the district expand high quality school options.”
Under Vallas’ plan (which was immediately endorsed by Bridgeport’s Mayor), the “Principal Functions and Responsibilities of the Foundation” would be:
- To monitor academic, financial and operational performance of Bridgeport schools.
- To identify high quality Bridgeport schools for future duplication and franchising.
- To implement programs to improve existing schools and to expand school choice options by supporting open enrollment, accelerated and exemplary programs in qualified schools.
- To create a system for identifying, recruiting, incubating and certifying proven high quality providers to open new schools or to assume management of failing schools.
- To create a process by which the community can provide input into the selection of school providers to open new schools or to take over failing schools.
- To serve as a pipeline for recruiting and training high quality administrators, principals and teachers for Bridgeport Public Schools.
And, of course, the Foundation would hold the purse strings to ensure that its vision of appropriate developments take place.
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