Common Council MTG 05/27/08
The meeting didn’t get called to order till about 8:20, much scurrying back and forth between the caucus rooms. Many political flunkies were in the audience tonight, likely due to the charter revision agenda item.
Attending: Krummel, Serasis, Brown, Sutton, Lindstrom, Bolden, Geake, Moccia, Bondi, Straniti, Conroy, Moccia, Bonnefant, Kydes, Hempstead, McQuaid
III. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
Tags: Norwalk
They are evaluating Corda.
The Board of Education will meet tonight to evaluate Superintendent Salvatore Corda.
The meeting in Room A300 of City Hall starts at 7 p.m., and a closed session is anticipated.
Corda has had the job for seven years. His review is conducted every year, school board Chairwoman Susan Hamilton said.
The school board last approved a new contract for Corda in August. The pact is the subject of a lawsuit brought by the Norwalk Federation of Teachers in September.
Truly the world is coming to an end. The venerable school field trip is now being added to the endangered species list because of, ahem, the lack of educational ties to the classroom. That was the whole point. Whoever dreamed up the very first field trip knew something apparently the highly certificated masters of educational curriculum today don’t –that 30 kids, imprisoned in a classroom, eventually seek escape at all cost. Back in the day when everyone walked to school in the snow up hill both ways, the field trip was the most exciting thing happening in school except for kick ball. Even if the field trip was simply going to the public library and a behind the scenes tour of the stacks, which were of course haunted.
Tags: Education
