A flood of information has drowned a once-parched parent community that is now trying to unravel an assortment of issues that could have harmed the town’s most vulnerable students, and perhaps also, its most creative.
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A year of tumult sparked by an illegal special education program has cost Darien more than $390,000 to fix, according to invoices and salary information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
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The silence has died.
In the wake of a growing and deepening public school crisis, current and former Darien Schools employees are stepping forward to shine some light on an assortment of problems that happened last year and which ended in findings of illegal activity and the resignation of the district’s superintendent.
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“It was the most difficult job of my career.”
The words of attorney Sue Gamm, said to The Darien Times, speak volumes to the depth of problems that took place in Darien’s special education program last year. If there were any doubts that the 25 parents who signed a complaint with the state Department of Education had been melodramatic with their concerns, it’s likely that Gamm’s summary report could dispel that assumption.
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While the town teemed with ghosts and goblins making their trick-or-treat rounds, a room full of Darien’s most powerful public figures sat to discuss how to engage a forensic audit into the school district’s special education grant applications.
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Allegations have surfaced that could implicate a variety of school officials in yet another piece of a complicated and growing puzzle stemming from a crisis in the special education program.
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The somber aftermath following the resignation of Darien’s school superintendent has brought the former director of special education forward to address her concerns over the need to root out the architects behind last year’s illegal special education program.
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In a dramatic turn of events spawned from the special education crisis, the school district’s superintendent has stepped down after three years of leadership.
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Antoinette Fornshell, former literacy curriculum coordinator for the Darien Schools, has left her position for a job with Greenwich Public Schools. Fornshell is now the humanities program coordinator in Greenwich. Her former Darien position has been filled by Cory Gillette, who began her career as an elementary teacher and formerly worked as a private literacy consultant.
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David DesRoches 