A lesser-known provision in 2025’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act may soon put college degrees out of reach for many nontraditional students.
Theo Peck-Suzuki
Theo is CT Mirror's education reporter. Born in New York and raised in southeast Ohio, Theo earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Brown University and a master's from the University of Chicago. He served for two years in an AmeriCorps program at Rural Action, a community development organization based near his hometown, before returning to school to study journalism at Ohio University. He has previously covered children and poverty for WOUB Public Media in Athens, Ohio.
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Report: CT schools among the most segregated in the U.S.
The report came as little surprise to state education leaders, who cited widespread opposition to regionalization as a key obstacle.
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CT schools double down on early detection to help reading scores
CT teachers now have access to the tools needed to identify and solve reading delays, and some districts are already seeing improvements.
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CT special education advocates slam Trump Ed Dept. moves: an ‘assassination attempt’
Sec. Linda McMahon said shifting IDEA, Section 504 enforcement to other depts. would protect special education. CT advocates disagree.
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Vernon unveils 50-year-old treasures buried during nation’s bicentennial
In 1976, students at Vernon’s Northeast School buried a time capsule that was unearthed this month. Notes, photos and more were on display.
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Lamont lays out education priorities as Blue Ribbon Commission gets underway
The 23-member panel will work to interrogate the entirety of CT’s complex ‘education cost share’ school funding system and propose reforms.
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CSCU general counsel placed on administrative leave
Karen Buffkin’s departure is related to ongoing fallout from a complaint against recently departed interim Chancellor John Maduko.
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Lamont noncommittal on federal scholarship tax credit after NY moves to join
Under the program, donors to scholarship granting organizations receive the full donation amount back—up to $1700—as a federal tax credit.
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Lamont backfills $35M in lost federal research grants for UConn
The money comes out of CT’s Federal Cuts Response Fund, which lawmakers created last year to prop up programs cut by Trump administration.
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CT education legislation: What passed and what failed in 2026
Lawmakers increased school funding and approved regulations for homeschool. But a proposed cellphone ban missed the mark.
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Lamont’s bell-to-bell cellphone ban expected to die in Senate
A bell-to-bell cellphone ban for CT public schools cleared the House with bipartisan support; it might not get a vote in the Senate.
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CT adopts homeschool regulation over staunch objection from GOP
HB 5468 faced intense opposition, led by a large and vocal body of homeschooling families who see regulations as an attack on their rights.
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Spring peeper, herald of warmer weather, could become CT state amphibian
CT House advanced a bill tying the tiny messenger of winter’s end indelibly to the state’s identity by a vote of 136-0. The Senate is next.
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CT school cellphone ban passes House with bipartisan support
HB 5035, which would impose a bell-to-bell cellphone ban in Connecticut public schools cleared the House and now heads to the Senate.
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CT homeschool bill passes House, heads to Senate
H.B. 5468, a controversial bill that would put some regulations on homeschooling, passed along party lines just before midnight on Thursday.