Nepotism in the Board of Ed?

Today's New Haven Register has an interesting article entitled "Ed board hiring raises question of nepotism". In a nutshell:

City Councilwoman Nancy R. Rossi, A Better Future-7, said Monday despite her request to table the measure, the board voted unanimously last week to hire Rose Palmieri, the mother of board member Mark Palmieri, as a cashier at St. Lawrence School. Though Palmieri has served as a substitute cashier at Seth Haley School, Rossi said she wanted the board to table the vote until it could research whether Rose Palmieri’s hiring was inconsistent with the board’s past practice of hiring the longest-serving individual on the substitution list for a particular position.