Norwalk BOE report card shows room for improvement

On Sept. 7, 2017, The Hour published an article by Kaitlyn Krasselt regarding the measurement outcomes of ConnCAN’s Board Watch assessment of the city’s Board of Education:

“Our vision for the school district is to be the most successful city school system in our state and I think that when you have a plan and you have these kinds of goals, it requires good governance and it’s not possible without good governance,” said Nowalk Superintendent of Schools Steven Adamowski. “Like anything else we do, you always make something better by focusing it and measuring it. You never improve what we don’t measure in the first place, and I like to think that the ConnCAN work and the Board Watch process has contributed to the quality of governance in our city.”

Board of Education member Mike Barbis, who has served on the board for six years, said Board Watch’s presence has made him more aware of his conduct and participation in meetings, and welcomed the additional layer of accountability for board members.

“There’s been a lot of turmoil in our Board of Education and it has definitely been a roller coaster,” Barbis said. “The role of the Board of Education is critical … the connection between the Board of Education and the community is not the way it once was and there is, what I might label, a missing link. We needed this more than anything because the Board of Ed was sort of operating in a vacuum. The members of Board Watch are generating review, they’re creating more transparency, and hopefully at the end of the day, they’re creating more accountability for the members of the Board of Education, and I think at the end of the day, that’s what’s most important.”

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