Hartford students who attend Open Choice schools in surrounding towns tend to demonstrate higher proficiency on standardized tests than Hartford students who attend neighborhood schools, but grow at comparable rates, according to state data obtained by The Courant.
The state is financing almost all of the cost of multiple school projects in Hartford, but investigators have zeroed in on the $150 million overhaul of Bulkeley High School on the city’s southside, according to public records and interviews with more than a half dozen people familiar with the project.In particular, the investigators appear interested in how Konstantinos Diamantis, the politically-influential former director of the state school financing program, persuaded Hartford to hire a second consultant and how that consultant, Construction Advocacy Professionals, was awarded the contract even though two competitors submitted lower bids.
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