Ed committee jettisons charter school moratorium

HARTFORD, Conn. – The legislature’s Education Committee removed language from a bill Friday that would have prohibited the state from opening new charter schools.

Instead, the committee will leave it up to the Appropriations Committee to decided how many charter schools should be funded. Currently, there are 22 charter schools in the state and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget includes funding to open two new ones in Bridgeport and Stamford.

“I know the original bill was not very controversial and didn’t attract much attention,” state Rep. Andrew Fleischmann, D-West Hartford, said sarcastically. He said the bill simply got rid of sections that attracted “more heat than light.”

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