Loud crowd greets Malloy’s education reform pitch - Connecticut Post: "The governor is working behind the scenes with legislative leaders on a compromise. Malloy told the Central crowd that without his bill, the school district won't see a promised $4.4 million in new funding and the state most likely won't get a waiver of the federal No Child Left Behind testing requirement.
"What we are trying to do is turn around chronically failing schools. It won't happen overnight," he told them. "We've been studying failure for 20 years. It is time to study success."
During the hourlong session, Malloy also fended off concerns his reform efforts may benefit for-profit entities.
Greg Furlong, a Bryant School fifth-grade teacher and a parent, said he is concerned that Leeds Global Partnership, hired to assist in developing the reform plan, may lead to his tax dollars being used to help an equity firm provide profit."
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