A state hearing to determine whether the Killingly Board of Education is providing enough mental health resources to students has begun.
Education
Stories about schooling in Connecticut: Pre-Kindergarten through grade 12, higher education, education spending and child welfare.
How CT’s regional colleges want to mitigate $140M budget shortfall
The proposal from CT State Colleges & Universities leadership involves cuts to security, travel costs and other efficiencies, but no layoffs.
CT spent $8.4M fixing up a college building — but hasn’t paid to staff it
CT renovated a Tunxis Community College building to be used for machine technology classes. But money to run the program isn’t in the budget.
CT higher education faces big cuts as pandemic funds disappear
Money that kept CT higher education afloat during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is going away, and colleges face course and job cuts.
Killingly voters flip school board to Democratic control
The election results come in the wake of months of controversy in the town over a school-based mental health care center.
CT graduation rates and academic growth down, report shows
Education achievement in CT continues to trail behind pre-pandemic levels, the Department of Education’s annual accountability report shows.
As CT kindergarten age changes, worries about transition emerge
Beginning next fall, CT children must be 5 years old on Sept. 1 to start kindergarten. How will that affect school districts and child care?
Stone Academy ‘siphoned’ money from students, AG Tong says
The complaint now claims that the school’s revenues “swelled” as their nursing exam pass rates “plummeted” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Getting a new high school: A different story in two CT towns
While a new Farmington High School is being built with minimal disruption, renovations to a Hartford school have upended student life.
Report: About 19% of CT youth ‘disconnected’ or ‘at risk’ in 2021-22
Around one-fifth of CT young people were struggling at school or graduated without a job or higher education plans in 2021-22, a report says.
Grant to boost career transition services for CT youth with disabilities
‘Pathways to Partnerships’ provides $10 million to strengthen CT and agency collaboration for helping students with disabilities.
Wesleyan joins other CT universities in removing loans from financial aid packages
The university is not the first in CT to eliminate loans from financial aid packages, though many schools haven’t taken on a no-loans policy.
CT charter school alleges district hasn’t paid special education costs
A charter school said its district broke CT law by not reimbursing it for ‘reasonable’ special ed costs. But what is a ‘reasonable’ expense?
UConn ranked as top university in reports. What does it mean?
The school ranked No. 26 in a U.S. News & World Report list and cracked the top 50 in a Wall Street Journal ranking. How much does it matter?
UConn students demand university divest from fossil fuels
UConn was expected to release a ‘comprehensive Sustainability Action Plan’ in spring 2023. Students say they haven’t seen it yet.