I’ll point out some of the key provisions in which the “reformers” took a huge hit, despite their claim they did well. After spending upwards toward $2 million dollars lobbying the legislature they have little option but to claim they’ve “won” despite the fact that they haven’t.
That said, the great thing about a “compromise” is you often find out what is REALLY important to an individual or a group because they’ll compromise on a lot as long as they can protect the important things.
As we are reading, Governor Malloy claimed that the compromise plan still makes a major investment in education. What he didn’t quite get around to saying is that although Connecticut’s charter schools aren’t getting all the funds they wanted next year, despite the half a billion dollar deficit in next year’s budget, they are still doing fairly well.
Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that Malloy’s Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor help create eight years ago and then served as one of their Directors until he resigned to become Malloy’s point person on “Education Reform,” will be getting an extra $3.3 million dollars next year for the 3,000 students they educate in their charter schools. That comes to about $1,100 more per student.
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