Hartford City Officials Float Plan To Keep EAI on in Financial Role

By Mark Walsh

The saga of Education Alternatives Inc. in Hartford, Conn., took another surprising twist last week as city officials suggested they might keep the company on to oversee the finances of the school district.

The development came barely two weeks after the Hartford school board ended its arrangement with Minneapolis-based EAI to run five schools and oversee the 25,000-student district's budget.

And it placed EAI in a tug of war between city officials who were considering retaining its services, and the school district, which locked the company out of schools where it had installed...

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