Last year 79 foster children in Connecticut “aged out” because they did not enroll in a college or technical school at age 18. But a new state program aims to keep about 30 to 40 of those foster children under state care by providing subsidized housing, job training and formal employment at jobs.
Elaina Rollins
Posted inPolitics
Blumenthal, family: Slain woman a victim of faulty law
Family members of Lori Jackson Gellatly, the 32-year-old mother from Oxford who was shot to death last month in what police say was a case of domestic violence, came to the State Capitol on Monday to say that a loophole in state and federal law may have contributed to her death.
Posted inEducation
Duncan touts ‘middle college’ as way to reduce student costs
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the nation’s top education official, visited Connecticut on Monday to highlight one innovative approach to reducing the cost of higher education: “middle colleges.”