Jahana Hayes, center, with Elizabeth Horton Sheff and John Brittain, original lawyer in the Sheff case. (Photo credit: Cindy Navarro) About 150 supporters of the Sheff school desegregation case gathered over the weekend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the landmark suit, but also to ask a question that echoes the theme of Martin Luther […]
Kathleen Megan
Kathleen Megan wrote for more than three decades for the Hartford Courant, covering education in recent years and winning many regional and national awards. She is now covering education and child welfare issues for the Mirror.
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CT ‘Kid Governor’ calls for support of LGBTQ issues
Ella Briggs was inaugurated Friday as CT’s Kid Governor (Photo credit: Ryan Caron King, WNPR) Ella Briggs was inaugurated Friday as CT’s Kid Governor (Photo credit: Ryan Caron King, WNPR) Ella Briggs, an ebullient fifth grader from East Hampton with a platform centered on support for LGBTQ youth, was sworn in as “Kid Governor” Friday […]
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Regents to weigh tuition scenarios
Mark Ojakian, president of the financially-troubled Connecticut State Colleges and University system, said Thursday he is embarking on a deep analysis of various tuition scenarios, including some free college models, to be weighed by the Board of Regents for Higher Education.
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Scathing report on conditions for imprisoned youth
The Office of the Child Advocate released a scathing report Wednesday morning on the substandard conditions in state facilities for imprisoned and detained youth and called for an overhaul of the system.
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Former DCF Commissioner Katz takes new job at Shipman & Goodwin
Joette Katz Joette Katz, the former commissioner of the Department of Children and Families and the former Connecticut Associate Supreme Court Justice, has taken a job with the prominent Hartford law firm, Shipman & Goodwin LLP. Katz, who served eight years as commissioner and almost two decades on the state Supreme Court, will work with […]
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New leaders on education panel say education funding, achievement gap likely topics
The leadership of the legislature’s Education Committee will be almost completely new this session, but the many of the committee’s perennial issues — education funding and the state’s achievement gap — are likely to continue to be center stage.
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Connecticut students to get debt relief in national settlement with for-profit company
About 1,415 Connecticut residents who attended institutions run by the for-profit education company, Career Education Corp., will receive debt relief as a result of a national settlement with 49 state attorneys general, including Attorney General George Jepsen.
