School superintendents call on Lamont to supply more state funding
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Park Avenue Elementary School, Danbury, Conn. Thursday, July 3, 2014.Carol Kaliff / Carol Kaliff
Danbury schools Superintendent Sal Pascarella co-wrote a letter on behalf of a number of Connecticut school districts calling on Gov. Ned Lamont to supply their districts with more state aid after he put a hold on scheduled increases to the districts’ grant money.
The letter states the superintendents’ opposition to Lamont’s “pause” in state funding escalations in his proposed biennial budget, which would take more than $109 million away from Connecticut’s 53 Alliance District and urban schools, they claim. The letter is co-authored by superintendents from Danbury, Meriden, Vernon and East Hartford and signed by numerous district leaders including those from Bridgeport, New Haven, Norwalk, Stamford, Middletown and Torrington, among others.