Perhaps The Hour is cleverly posting this to show our BOE that there are other ways of “negotiating” budgets. Or maybe they think that this year represents a trend in school finances. If its the later I tend to agree. I have read news reports of many BOE budget issues happening in other towns, talked to many teachers and administrators about the budgeting issues. They are not uniform, but for the most part ask that the School Boards do more with less. Such is the case in Stamford, from The Hour:

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In a word, it sucked in 2000. There were pages and pages of reasons. I don’t see the point on highlighting here, because they would all represent low lights, so I urge you to read the source document.

The general theme though, which has not been adequately improved under the Sal Corda administration are is a consistent lack of written management plans, inadequate management controls, performance evaluation and financial oversight. This is a classic problem with organizations, not unique to Norwalk, but I find it shocking that even Corda would be so dismissive of this report.

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Continuing the goal of posting source information here in yourCT.com, I post today a few excerpts of the PWC report, as well as links to the original document.

There’s some interesting thigns here. The first read I took, centered on school construction and capital budget process. In many respects the cdument serves as a good overview of what Norwalk’s process is, so I quote form the report below:

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