Wendy Lecker: The real needs in Connecticut classrooms - Connecticut Post: "Across this nation, education experts and courts have consistently found that in order to provide an adequate education to children, schools must have a stable and consistent teaching force, adequate books, computers and supplies, adequate facilities, extra help for students with additional needs, and high-quality preschool for all. These are the basic building blocks no school should do without.
The governor's bill does nothing to address these realities.
Instead, the governor intends to use our neediest children as guinea pigs.
He is pushing a Commissioner's Network giving unprecedented and total power to the education commissioner to take over 25 of the neediest schools and do whatever he wants with them, including, but not limited to, firing all staff, turning the school over to a private entity, and withholding funds from schools if they don't comply with his plan. Concentrating power in one person has never been proven successful at achieving sustained student improvement. Supporters say the commissioner should be allowed "to try new things.""
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