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Norwalk Public Schools cutting site directors in expectation of state budget cuts
Correction, Aug. 28: Superintendent Adamowski said, “have no bumping rights,” not “bumpy ride.” NORWALK, Conn. – A surplus from the last Norwalk school year budget will be used to retain half of the staff members thought to have been instrumental in closing the achievement gap. No one can tell how much will be cut from…
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Report: Norwalk schools CISD rollout was poorly done
NORWALK, Conn. – The 2014-15 rollout of a new, critical, Norwalk Public Schools group of administrators was “severely flawed,” according to a report issued by a company hired by the Board of Education to study the reasons a large grant was lost. MRM, a marketing, research and merchandising company with a 25-year history of evaluating…
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Dalio blamed loss of superintendent, lack of Norwalk schools’ vision, in pulling $1.1M grant’s second half
NORWALK, Conn. – The “change in district leadership and the lack of an aligned vision and strategy” at Norwalk Public Schools were the reasons cited by the Dalio Foundation in May when it declared that it was pulling its funding for Norwalk’s curriculum and instruction site directors. Dalio had committed to spending $1.1 million over…
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Adamowski: Special Ed is further in red; site directors will be cut
NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk’s new superintendent of schools, in his first address on the clock Tuesday to the Board of Education, laid out two pieces of bad news and sought to dispel an urban legend. Norwalk’s Special Education program is further in the red than thought when the 2015-16 school budget was approved last month,…
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Norwalk Schools has lost major grant
NORWALK, Conn. – Norwalk Public Schools has lost a substantial grant, adding to what was already described as a challenging need to rework the schools 2015-16 operating budget. Although the Common Council, with the support of Mayor Harry Rilling, fully funded the Board of Education’s budget request filed under former Superintendent of Schools Manny Rivera,…
