Part Two of Our Interview with Allan B. Taylor,
Chairman of the Connecticut Board of Education

Part One can be found here.

Noteworthy quotes from Allan Taylor:

0:38 - "I was one of the early supporters of the charter law back in 1996 and '97 when it was passed."

0:48 - "I'm not interested in becoming Arizona. I'm not interested in becoming some of the other states that have thousands of charter schools."

2:16 - "I am a supporter of a public school system, and charters are public schools the way we do it. You get to have 15, 20, 30% of your kids going to charter schools, I'm so sure that remains true."

3:30 - "I'm very conflicted about choice."

4:01 - "You can't build a policy on asking parents to sacrifice their kids."

6:55 - "The scores are unimaginably bad in many places. And I don't have any doubt that poverty handicaps kids greatly. But I believe that schools can make a difference. If you don't believe that schools can make a difference then I don't know how you can be working in the field at any level. What are you doing?"

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The speech by Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy referenced in the video can be found here.

The story about the 5-Year Old who brought heroin to a classroom show-and-tell can be found here.