A policy maker he's not

MANIFESTO

As has long been known,

[T]he difference in the percentages of low-income students and their more affluent peers who achieve proficiency [in The Constitution State] has been stuck at around 20 percent despite years of reforms. Although Connecticut is typically praised for its schools, disparities in the performance of students from different socioeconomic backgrounds—which are often referred to as the "achievement gap"—reveal that, in truth, the state has significant inequities in its educational system.

In fact, Connecticut has the nation's largest achievement gap when it's measured by students' socioeconomic status.

Nevertheless, the state's senior senator thinks he knows how to fix all this:

Sen. Joseph Lieberman is drafting a school reform bill that would tie a portion of federal education dollars to a requirement that states implement robust teacher evaluations, with student test scores being a major factor in rating teacher performance.

Of course this makes no sense at all. It'd penalize de facto those teachers who either by choice or happenstance ended up in New Haven or Bridgeport or Hartford schools. In most instances they're working they're tails off just trying to help get kids to a proficient level. That wouldn't be good enough for the Yale-educated know-it-all.

I'd hoped that after Holy Joe announced his retirement, he'd kind of take it easy and put the brakes (to use his phrase) on some of his crackpot ideas. I obviously should have known better.