Tucked inside Gov. Dannel Malloy’s massive education reform package is one putrid piece of legislation. Justifiably trashed by the unions, teachers and blogger Jonathan Pelto, the item would award former Hartford Superintendent of Schools Steven Adamowski a pension for his service here. Adamowski — widely praised for his five years in Hartford and who now oversees school reform in Windham — currently doesn’t qualify for a pension because he never passed state certification when he returned to Connecticut to take the Hartford job.
I’m told by numerous sources close to the private negotiations now taking place at the capitol involving the education reform bill that there is no chance the Adamowski pension deal will see the light of day when the education committee begins discussing the legislation early next week.
Not surprisingly, when I called around, nobody seemed to know who put the provision in the Malloy bill.
Thanks for this piece of information. If you continue to dig into SB 24, you’ll find more and more “putrid pieces of legislation.” If nothing else, the sheer amount in the bill that will ultimately have to sorted out by the courts makes it bad. It was rushed with little thought to the unintended consequences.
Rick,
Why is this so surprising? There are many stinkers in SB 24….look more closely. Don’t worry…keep your eyes and ears wide open…it will be repackaged somewhere else…just wait.