[BPt111]

Bridgeport School District in a heated mess





"Our school district has been failing for many, many years and I am sick and tired of being told as a father of a daughter, `Hey, your daughter can't learn because she is too poor,' " Illingworth told Gomes. "We need change. We need to fix our school system."




Pereira argued that money should not be taken from the district to defend Vallas against a personal lawsuit.
"He is not being sued for doing anything wrong .... we aren't even a party in it," Pereira said.
"He is being sued because he is superintendent," said Mulligan. "To say to somebody, `If you get sued on your own you are going to have to pay your own legal fees' -- no one in their right mind would be interested in the position."




School board votes to pay, not search - Connecticut Post

[Stylo]

Communities with struggling schools should realize it's mostly the parents of the students that are the problem. Not the system, not the teachers. That's a factor, but not the main one. How about pushing for cultural shifts too.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by Stylo

Communities with struggling schools should realize it's mostly the parents of the students that are the problem. Not the system, not the teachers. That's a factor, but not the main one. How about pushing for cultural shifts too.

I so agree with you on this. Jay

[AMSS]

The current majority on the BOE is only exploiting poverty and uninvolved parents to get their hands on taxpayer money. You have a chairman who reaps state money for the preschools he runs in a building about to be foreclosed on and you have Ilingworth whose only contribution has been to mandate school uniforms - oddly enough his clothing store just converted to a uniform store too.