New London _ Connecticut Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor is scheduled to speak at Thursday’s Board of Education meeting.

Pryro is expected to address the school board for about an hour, but the city’s superintendent of schools said Monday that he is unaware of the contents of Pryor’s address.

The state has been watching the school board closely since last year and last week, members of the State Board of Education met to hear a briefing on a recent school board operations audit. At that same meeting, Superintendent of Schools Nicholas A. Fischer pleaded for state intervention.

On Monday, Pryor met for an hour with Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio to discuss a variety of topics that included the current status of education in the city and “various methods for improving education in New London,” Finizio said.

Finizio described the conversation as a “preliminary” but also said the conversation was “productive and open.”