The sports teams at the University of Connecticut are facing fiscal challenges, the president’s athletics advisory committee wrote in its annual report to school President Susan Herbst. “The fiscal impact that the University faces is also mirrored in the [athletics] Division. As with all areas of the university, there are required elements that need to be addressed even in difficult fiscal periods and the challenge is to meet them with reduced resources,” reads the report from the President’s Athletic Advisory Committee.
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Stories about schooling in Connecticut: Pre-Kindergarten through grade 12, higher education, education spending and child welfare.
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New higher ed chairman wants to reduce public colleges’ autonomy
If the new chairman of the legislature’s Higher Education Committee gets his way, the independence that the state’s public colleges have enjoyed for years will be reined in more under lawmakers control. “I have a simple philosophy: over the years the legislature has ceded too much autonomy to the universities,” Sen. Steve Cassano, D-Manchester, said in a news release announcing his appointment this week.
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CT school ratings released — How does your school stack up?
Parents can now see if their child’s school is among the best or worst in the state. A new website with school-by-school ratings — based on a 100-point scale — was put up by the State Department of Education Thursday afternoon. As expected, many of the schools in urban districts scored poorly. In fact, 91 […]
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UConn officials get raises, many topping $10,000
Hundreds of top officials and administrators at the University of Connecticut received raises this fall after their evaluations, many of the increases topping $10,000.
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Malloy to talk education reform at American Enterprise Institute
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is back on the D.C. shuttle. He’s headed to an American Enterprise Institute forum on education Monday. The session is billed as, “School reform dos and don’ts: Lessons from Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy.” If you’re curious, you can watch. The event is being live-streamed at 1:30 p.m., and video also will […]
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Malloy makes no promises to increase school funding further
One of the key components of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s education reforms has been for the state to provide millions of dollars more in funding in an effort to turn around the lowest performing districts and schools.
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CT one of four states meeting Head Start quality benchmarks
Only four states require their Head Start preschool programs to meet certain benchmarks recommended by child experts: keeping class sizes under 20 students, and below eight students for infant classrooms; and keeping certain adult-to-child ratios.
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Nearly half the students from Hartford now attend integrated schools
Nearly half of the students from Hartford now attend integrated schools, the state reports — 17 years after the Connecticut Supreme Court ordered the state to eliminate the educational inequities caused by the segregation of Hartford’s overwhelmingly black and Hispanic school population. “We are proud of the progress we’ve made to date,” said Kelly Donnelly, […]
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To Rep. Rojas: Let’s talk about what Sheff is doing for East Hartford
In his Sunday op-ed article in the Courant, state Rep. Jason Rojas, D-East Hartford, voices support for school integration and the goals of Sheff v. O’Neill, but he complains about the cost of the remedy, and the perceived effects on his hometown of East Hartford.
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‘The art of healing’ for UConn sexual assault victims
Project Unbreakable, a national campaign that seeks to give a voice back to victims of rape and sexual violence through photos, has spotlighted the students at the University of Connecticut who say university officials failed them after they reported their assaults.
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Report: $836M needed to catch up on state college renovations
The four Connecticut State Universities and the state’s 12 community colleges need an infusion of $836 million to complete necessary renovations and eliminate a growing backlog of construction projects.
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UConn, Obamacare and a projected $1.1 billion deficit for Connecticut
The sexual assault controversy hovering over the University of Connecticut underscored much of the news coverage this week. As Mirror Education Writer Jacqueline Rabe Thomas reported: UConn President Susan Herbst said she hadn’t intended to dismiss the accusations of students who said they’d been assaulted — her comments had been “misunderstood.”
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In sexual assault cases, do UConn athletes get special treatment?
When it comes to sexual misconduct, are University of Connecticut athletes treated differently than other students? Is there a “locker-room mentality” that fosters or at least tolerates a “rape culture” on campus?
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‘Not just UConn’: Many colleges struggle with how to respond to sexual assault
It’s not just UConn. “After coming forward, I was blamed left and right. Why did I keep it to myself? Why didn’t I report it right away? Why was I drinking and underage? These were all the questions shot at me rapid fire from a panel of college officials,” a college student at a Fairfield […]
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Half of Connecticut’s public schools to receive post-Sandy Hook security upgrades
Half of the public schools in Connecticut will receive money to tighten the security at their schools. The announcement by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy comes nearly one year after 20 children and six educators were massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. “We will never be able to prevent every random act of violence, […]