Bridgeport, Conn., parents go to court over state takeover of school board (w/ Video)

From The Connecticut Post: A group of Bridgeport, Conn., parents is asking a judge to halt the replacement of the city's school board by state officials. The request comes less than a week after the state Board of Education approved a proposal by the city that allowed the state to take over the city's board.

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Related: George Coleman, Connecticut's acting commissioner of education, announces a search for members to serve on the reconstituted Bridgeport school board.

Earlier...from The New York Times: The elected school board in Bridgeport, Conn., after years battling division and dysfunction, finally came up with a solution: to dissolve the board itself. Several board members, the school superintendent and the city's mayor asked the State Board of Education replace all nine Bridgeport board members. The state board agreed. The intervention in the 20,000-student school system will be the second time in the state’s recent history that a locally elected school board has been replaced by an appointed board. In 1997, it happened in Hartford.