Our Your School database provides a broad collection of measures parents can use to judge their child’s school – from where money is spent to class sizes to how often students are disciplined. Today’s release contains data of particular value in evaluating schools’ results with one of the state’s lowest-performing populations – English learners. The Mirror is currently publishing a series of stories examining the teaching of English learners in Connecticut. The second story in that series will appear Tuesday.
May 28, 2017 @ 5:00 am
Posted inNews
Losing in Connecticut last week, from border to border
“Losers” is one of President Donald Trump’s favorite words — one he uses for describing everyone from bombers in Manchester, England, to Washington Post columnist George Will; and there were plenty of losers and potential losers in Connecticut last week.
Posted inEducation, Money
On DeVos’s wish list: $250M to ‘build the evidence base’ for vouchers
Recent research about private-school voucher programs has been grim: In Washington, D.C., Indianapolis, Louisiana, and Ohio, students did worse on tests after they received the vouchers. Now, the Trump administration is looking for new test cases.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Trump budget would halve EPA Science Office funds
President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget proposal would halve the funds for the EPA’s Office of Research and Development — the unit that helped in the Flint water crisis and the Ebola virus outbreak in 2014.