Connecticut’s state Department of Education plans to intervene in the operation of the chronically troubled Windham school system, The Associated Press reports.
Interim Education Commissioner George Coleman said Wednesday the state will appoint a special master to work with the 3,600-student district on academic, budget and administrative issues.
It comes after several education department audits concluded Windham’s problems are escalating, including poor student test scores and a dropout rate twice the state average.
State law allows the education department to intervene when local districts show chronic academic and management problems.
Coleman says details of the state’s intervention in Windham are still being determined, and will be presented next month to the state Board of Education. State education officials also stepped in there in 2008, but the new intervention is expected to be far more wide-ranging.
