This op-ed piece, by Orlando Rodriguez, originally appeared in www.ctlatinonews.com. Yolanda Negrόn knows Willimantic well after graduating from Eastern Connecticut State University and serving on the Windham Board of Selectmen. She says she is seeing “many new faces” in the local Latino community, and these new faces are not Puerto Ricans. Willimantic provides a window […]
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Funding towns like it’s 1999
When it comes to the state’s funding of schools and towns, in Connecticut it is still 1999. Our funding formulas are out-of-date and do not reflect changes in personal income since 1999. State laws require that income data in grant formulas come from the decennial census long form. Census 2000 data is currently being used […]