The Darien Board of Education voted Tuesday to narrowly reject moving forward with plans to participate in a pilot Open Choice program that would bring 16 Norwalk students to the district, despite support from the board chairperson and a passionate call to action by the superintendent of schools.
A school board in Darien, an affluent Connecticut suburb, has rejected a school choice plan that would have had it take in 16 students from the city of Norwalk..