Federal investigators Wednesday interviewed the chief of staff for the Senate Republicans as part the investigation into the House Republicans’ former chief of staff. “Two federal investigators met briefly with Senate Republican Caucus Chief of Staff Jack Shannon in the Legislative Office Building this morning as part of an inquiry first reported in the news […]
March 19, 2014 @ 10:09 pm
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Op-ed: Connecticut’s taxing dilemma
When a state relies excessively on local property taxes to fund governmental services, as does Connecticut, it’s reasonable to begin working to fix what House Speaker Brendan Sharkey has termed a “broken” tax system.
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Citing Ukraine conflict, DeLauro say Pentagon should halt purchases of Russian copters
Rep. Rosa DeLauro cited the conflict in Ukraine in her latest argument about the Pentagon’s purchase of Russian-made helicopters to equip Afghan security forces.
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UConn’s budget chief leaving with $138K severance
The University of Connecticut will pay its budget chief, Richard Gray, $138,000 in severance when he steps down from the post next month. UConn President Susan Herbst announced Gray’s intention to retire Friday to faculty and staff, but his separation agreement with the state’s flagship university, signed Thursday, indicates it may have been more than a retirement.
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Commission: GOP claim of illegal Malloy fundraising unfounded
The GOP’s complaint came amid Malloy’s aggressive fundraising on behalf of the state party, which has used its federal campaign account to raise tens of thousands of dollars from state contractors. State law bars those contractors from contributing to Malloy or the party’s state account.
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CT GOP wants to know how many exchange customers were uninsured
Among the measures still awaiting action by the legislature’s Insurance and Real Estate Committee is a controversial bill that would require the state’s health insurance exchange to report on the number of enrollees who were previously uninsured.
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Op-ed: Workplace bullying: Isolating, devastating
When you are the target of a bully, the problems are so personal and isolating that a wider world ceases to exist.
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Sen. Stillman will not seek re-election
State Sen. Andrea Stillman: “I feel immensely proud of the work I have done for my constituents.”
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Op-ed: Teaching to an empty seat
We cannot reform our schools without making sure that children are actually in them.
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Connecticut Rising: What sore eyes long to see
If there’s one thing we all want, regardless of our politics, it’s to see Connecticut rising — as a place to live, work and retire — to the top where it surely belongs.
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Op-ed: Connecticut Rising: What sore eyes long to see
If there’s one thing we all want, regardless of our politics, it’s to see Connecticut rising — as a place to live, work and retire — to the top where it surely belongs.
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Op-ed: Evaluating CT teachers based on student academic performance
Why would we think that a teacher, standing in front of 25 young faces, could possibly be the ONLY influence on whether a student learns and remembers the information presented that particular day and each and every day?
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Op-ed: It’s time to raise wages
Today we are amid another crisis, and this time it is killing our fellow Americans right here at home. The culprit? Poverty.
Posted inEducation
Teacher evaluations: Too much science, not enough art?
FAIRFIELD — As teacher Alison Taylor conducts a poetry lesson for her third-graders, veteran principal Jason Bluestein watches and listens closely, scratching notes into a spiral notebook – a process he will repeat again and again this year, more often than ever before.
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Teacher evaluations: State asks court to ‘compel’ districts to turn over assessments
The top lawyers for the state are asking a Superior Court judge to “compel” nine of the state’s lowest-performing school districts to turn over individual teacher evaluations so they can prepare for a trial set to begin this fall over whether the state is properly funding education.