“I’ll settle for teaching to the test, if it means raising scores” Dan Malloy 4/9/12

Wait, What?: "And when it came to his “Commissioner’s Network” schools and the offer of “more money” for schools like Milner he failed, yet again, to explain what would happen at his “Commissioner’s Network Schools”

Commissioner’s Network Schools:

Commissioner selected schools by July 15th of this year.

All staff (teachers and administrators) are fired

Collective bargaining is outlawed

The Commissioner turns the school over to a third-party to run

The new entity is exempt from the Connecticut laws concerning consultants, purchasing and bidding.

And the “new” money the school gets?

In Windham, where the state named Steven Adamowski as the “Special Master,” he is using half of the $1 million that is supposed to help the schools for his own salary, benefits, personal staff and expenses leaving only $500,000 (at best) for the “failings” schools."

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