NEW HAVEN — After Indiana’s governor refused to take in a family of Syrian refugees, New Haven’s Chris George immediately agreed to help. The family — the unwitting pawns in a national post-Paris ideological argument — arrived in town and met with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
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Charter school advocates pack the New Haven Green
Connecticut’s charter school movement showed its political muscle Wednesday by bringing more than 6,000 parents, teachers, community leaders, and students to form a sea of neon green T-shirts across the New Haven Green—while remaining coy about the details of its school-reform agenda.
