With Bridgeport Public Schools facing a massive budget deficit, layoffs and a forensic audit, Mayor Joe Ganim pulled no punches Friday in addressing the situation – especially as it relates to the district’s nine-member school board.
“My level of concern has risen to the alarm level. If it calls and needs for these board members to resign, and have the state take over, those were some of the conversations that we had in Hartford Monday,” Ganim told News 12, referring to the first day of the new legislative session.
“There is a massive budget deficit and when I ask questions about it – and about a wide array of other problems – I get no answers,” Ganim said…