I’ll have a more detailed story on this in The Advocate.
While Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell was in Wilton this morning for a press conference about a rail project I asked her about J.M. Wright Technical School.
She said she had read the blog post immediately below this one which speculated the administration is trying to shift the question of Wright’s future onto the state Department of Education/Board of Education.
The Governor ended that speculation.
“It is the decision of the state Department of Education,” she told me. “It truly is their decision.”
But she’s the Governor and she was the one who incorporated the Department of Education’s initial proposal last fall to shutter Wright Tech into her most recent two-year budget proposal. Couldn’t she turn around now and tell state school officials she wants the school to re-open for the start of school Aug. 27?
“It will ultimately be their decision. It has to be their decision,” Rell said.
