The “teacher shortage” is fueled not by lower numbers of individuals entering the field but by rapidly growing numbers of educators leaving it.
Christopher E. Trombly
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CT’s fiscal guardrails do great unintended harm
The Lamont administration and all members of the General Assembly should be not only willing, but eager, to subject CT’s fiscal guardrails to rigorous, ongoing analysis.
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CT shouldn’t pay down its pension obligation at our children’s expense
We continually choose to place lower priority on the needs of the least secure children, always putting off addressing them properly until some future date.
CT Viewpoints
CT has the means, but must find the will to properly fund education
Our state’s elected leaders have chosen to defer — and thereby to deny — economic and educational justice to low-income young people and their families.
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Statewide standardized testing this Spring: To what end?
Despite many challenges, Congressional committees in both houses remain steadfast in their belief that state standardized testing should be administered this spring. They cite the recent announcement that NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) testing will not be conducted this year as adding to this “moral imperative.” Better would be for state departments of education to use the myriad data that administrators and teachers have naturally collected since March to allocate resources that will allow for student learning to be recovered, and for historic structural inequities to be addressed at long last.