The three-year trial means UConn will be joining a record number of colleges who have already eliminated the requirement.
Jacqueline Rabe Thomas
Jacqueline was CT Mirror’s Education and Housing Reporter, and an original member of the CT Mirror staff, joining shortly before our January 2010 launch. Her awards include the best-of-show Theodore A. Driscoll Investigative Award from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists in 2019 for reporting on inadequate inmate health care, first-place for investigative reporting from the New England Newspaper and Press Association in 2020 for reporting on housing segregation, and two first-place awards from the National Education Writers Association in 2012. She was selected for a prestigious, year-long Propublica Local Reporting Network grant in 2019, exploring a range of affordable and low-income housing issues. Before joining CT Mirror, Jacqueline was a reporter, online editor and website developer for The Washington Post Co.’s Maryland newspaper chains. Jacqueline received an undergraduate degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University and a master’s in public policy from Trinity College.
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Lamont announces end to CT’s education partnership with Dalio Philanthropies
Gov. Ned Lamont said he and the Dalios agreed to dissolve the education partnership because of a “breach of trust.”
Posted inHealth
As it prepares to reopen, Connecticut’s count of COVID-19 deaths is fragmented and incomplete
Connecticut’s official count relies on paper records submitted by all 169 cities and towns.
Posted inHealth
Limited inspection reports show COVID-19 lapses in nursing homes
The most significant lapses involved infection control and prevention.
Posted inHealth
Frustration growing in minority communities over government’s response to pandemic
There are only a handful of walk-up testing sites in the state, prohibiting those without cars from getting tested.
Posted inNews
COVID-19 fatalities hit 3,000 mark as Connecticut gets ready to reopen
Three cases of a new mysterious and potentially fatal inflammatory syndrome affecting children have also developed here.
Posted inNews
School’s out for summer, by governor order. Remote learning continues.
The governor will order Connecticut schools to remain closed, joining 39 other states that have decided not to reopen.
Posted inHealth
No surge yet for COVID-19 testing. Governor says it’s coming.
Lamont has stressed that the state must significantly increase testing before his administration can begin reopening schools and non-essential businesses.
Posted inHealth
Nursing homes hit hard by COVID-19 had more staffing, infection control problems before pandemic
At facilities where at least 10% of the residents have COVID-19, just over half recorded “below/much below average” ratings.
Posted inHealth
A town-by-town look at COVID infection and death rates
The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 declined for the fourth straight day Sunday.
Posted inHealth
COVID-19 deaths among CT nursing home residents doubles since mid-April
Nursing home resident fatalities now represent 50% of all COVID-19-related deaths in Connecticut.
Posted inHealth, Money
‘Would this population of caregivers be treated differently if they were white, and male, and wealthy?’
The federal and state response to COVID-19 in nursing homes is riddled with economic and racial inequities, union members charged.
Posted inEducation
Will extra education aid go to remedy learning lost from school closures – or close budget holes?
During the last recession, schools in the state shed 1,300 jobs. A larger economic slowdown is predicted this time.
Posted inHealth
State nursing homes have COVID-19 infection rates of as high as 61%
In three homes, more than half of the residents have the coronavirus.
Posted inEducation, Health
Some kids with disabilities can’t learn at home. Parents and advocates want to know: What’s the plan?
Online learning doesn’t work for thousands of special education children in the state. But it’s unclear how schools will help them make up for what they’re missing during COVID-19
