The Senate has sent a bill to the governor’s desk that allows some towns to cut education funding when enrollment declines, reduces the state’s share of the cost of building new schools, merges several of the state’s public colleges and universities into one system and increases funding for urban students to attend surburban schools.
The measure reflects most of the governor’s proposed changes to primary and secondary education, which had bi-partisan support in the Education Committee. The merging of the state’s colleges proved much more controversial, facing opposition from many legislators and college officials.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has said he plans to save the more controversial issues facing kindergarten-12th grade education until next year’s legislative session. He has said he plans to tackle school financing and teacher tenure laws.
Malloy plans to sign the changes to education approved by the Senate Wednesday.
Jacqueline was CT Mirror’s Education and Housing Reporter, and an original member of the CT Mirror staff, joining shortly before our January 2010 launch. Her awards include the best-of-show Theodore A. Driscoll Investigative Award from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists in 2019 for reporting on inadequate inmate health care, first-place for investigative reporting from the New England Newspaper and Press Association in 2020 for reporting on housing segregation, and two first-place awards from the National Education Writers Association in 2012. She was selected for a prestigious, year-long Propublica Local Reporting Network grant in 2019, exploring a range of affordable and low-income housing issues. Before joining CT Mirror, Jacqueline was a reporter, online editor and website developer for The Washington Post Co.’s Maryland newspaper chains. Jacqueline received an undergraduate degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University and a master’s in public policy from Trinity College.
