WASHINGTON — Congress was expected to approve a massive five-year transportation bill Thursday that would send Connecticut more than $3.5 billion in federal transportation money, bar the rental of cars under recall and commission a study that would determine an impairment standard for drivers who have smoked marijuana.
December 3, 2015
Posted inPolitics
Day after mass shooting, Senate rejects gun control measures
WASHINGTON — The day after California’s mass shooting, Richard Blumenthal Chris Murphy and other Senate Democrats pressed for largely symbolic votes on a couple of gun control measures. As most expected, they lost.
Posted inMoney, Politics
There’s a near deal — but it’s not bipartisan — on state budget deficit
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his fellow Democrats in the legislature’s majority said Thursday they believe they had reached the essence of a deal to mitigate state budget deficits and offer modest tax relief to businesses. Malloy announced he would call the General Assembly into special session on Tuesday in the hopes of adopting the package.
Posted inEducation
Contentious labor talks at CSCU draw a political audience
Proposed changes to working conditions at the state’s four regional universities drew protesters to a Board of Regents meeting Thursday, including faculty, students — and a key legislator who took a prominent role.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
CT Vo-tech school cuts were not the first
Just an addition to Jacqueline Rabe Thomas’ Dec. 2 piece about cuts to programs in the Connecticut Technical High School System: More than our sports programs have been threatened in recent years. Let’s not forget that in 2011, the CTHSS laid off all music teachers, art teachers, and deans of students. Our positions were reinstated shortly before the 2011 school year started, and thankfully most of us returned to teach that year.
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Will Connecticut follow Massachusetts on Common Core?
Massachusetts, one of the leading states on education reform in the nation, in a monumental decision has abandoned Common Core testing. The Massachusetts Commissioner of Education, Michael Chester, in a stunning reversal, has walked away from the very test he helped to create. Now it remains to be seen if other states in the nation, including Connecticut, will follow Massachusetts, a state that is considered to be “the gold standard” in successful education reform.