When Tamara Lanier makes the case for her right to claim ownership of photographs of “Papa Renty,” her message is both global and personal.
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.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Climate ‘strikers’ ask Lamont to take emergency steps on environment
Hundreds of thousands of young people and adults rallied Friday to voice their concerns and demands for climate change action.
Posted inEducation
CSCU leader concerned about whether funding for debt-free college is viable
The president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system is growing “increasingly concerned” about whether funding will be available in time to start offering debt-free community college in the fall of 2020 as called for in legislation passed earlier this year.
Posted inEducation
UConn President Katsouleas on research growth, free speech, and faculty
The CT Mirror interviewed Katsouleas in his new office on the Storrs campus, where he discussed his goals for the university.
Posted inEducation
National child care director gets an earful on industry challenges
Parents and child care operators complained about both the lack of affordable, quality care and the difficulty of finding qualified staff.
Posted inEducation
Small gains on state test, but troubling achievement gap persists
White children are still twice as likely to hit the proficiency benchmarks on the test as their black and Hispanic peers.
Posted inEducation
State spending on school construction dropped sharply over last decade
Connecticut’s capital spending on school construction fell by 45% from 2008 to 2017, but the state attributes the drop to stricter controls over the program.
Posted inHealth
Lawyers for state say school-level vaccination data won’t be released until October
School officials have until Sept. 6 to report immunization data from 2018-19 to the health department. After that, the health department will process and sort the data, which is expected to take weeks.
Posted inEducation
Lamont names financier Dan Toscano as UConn chairman
A Morgan Stanley partner with longtime ties to UConn was named today as the university’s board chairman.
Posted inEducation
Lamont, Cardona talk about education priorities from minority teacher recruitment to coding
Some educators in attendance Tuesday said while they agree with the governor’s broader vision, they didn’t hear much that was new. They hope to eventually get more specifics on his plan to improve Connecticut’s schools.
Posted inGovernment
Federal monitor’s report reflects continuing concerns about DCF, but progress being made
A lawyer for the plaintiffs is optimistic because the agency has made progress in its hiring and caseload goals.
Posted inEducation
Cardona urges superintendents to avoid ‘normalization of failure’
Miguel Cardona, the state’s new education chief, challenged the state’s superintendents to close the achievement gap for minority students.
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The state’s new education commissioner: collaborator, listener, hard worker
Miguel Cardona believes strongly in family and community — as well as in the potential for each child to be successful.
Posted inEducation
In his own words …
Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona on issues ranging from bilingual eduation to test scores.
Posted inEducation
Questions raised about lack of transparency in Dalio partnership at ‘town hall’ meeting
The Connecticut Parents Union held a town hall meeting Tuesday to raise awareness about the lack of transparency in state government.