Ordered by a Superior Court judge last fall to bolster graduation requirements so students are no longer awarded “diplomas but without the education we promise them,” state legislators instead are poised to pass legislation that loosens those requirements.
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Next teachers’ union leader is former state Senate leader
Donald E. Williams Jr. has been named the next leader of the state’s largest teachers union, the Connecticut Education Association, a political powerhouse. Williams, 59, served as the leader of the state Senate for 10 years.
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Yale graduate student fasters, still at it, send in first sub
After nine days of consuming nothing but water, Yale graduate student-teacher fasters have made their first substitution in their campaign to bring the university to the bargaining table.
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State auditors: Rogue magnet school lacked state oversight
Lax oversight by the Connecticut State Department of Education of the school choice lottery and enrollment in Hartford regional magnet schools opened the door for the most sought-after magnet school to fill 44 percent of its seats outside the blind lottery for the 2013-14 school year.
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State board members ‘outraged’ by number of young students suspended
Public schools in Connecticut suspended or expelled 1,674 students in preschool to Grade 2 during the last school year – despite state law limiting such discipline to students who are sexually or physically violent, bring a firearm to school or distribute drugs.
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Malloy: Legislature’s school-funding proposals not aggressive enough
“There are competing priorities out there — one is to do that over 30 years and another is to do that over 10. I want to do it today,” Malloy tells WNPR.
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GOP offers alternative budget — but has much work still to do
Republican legislators unveiled a two-year budget plan that rejected controversial proposals to pass teacher pension costs onto towns and to expose nonprofit hospitals to local taxation. But the GOP plan, which also would eliminate a program to share sales tax receipts with municipalities, is out of balance by more than $1 billion because of recent, massive erosion in state income tax receipts.
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School aid: Here’s what the stalled budget would have given your town
Greenwich was the biggest winner for education aid, and Lisbon was the biggest loser, according to data provided to some legislators by the Office of Fiscal Analysis.
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Amidst investigations, vo-tech schools chief to resign
Nivea L. Torres, superintendent of Connecticut’s vocational-technical school system, is resigning from that post on May 1 amidst at least four investigations, the state Department of Education announced Monday.
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She helps Latina moms be more involved in their children’s education
In a state where the gap in achievement between Hispanic students and their white peers is among the largest in the country, Yoellie Iglesias is on a mission to get more Latina mothers in Waterbury more involved in their children’s education.
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She’ll ‘educate’ Betsy DeVos as AFT kicks off campaign
Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, spent a morning at a Dearborn, Michigan school to advance the goal of getting the Trump administration to redirect public funding from cracking down on immigration to supporting public schools.
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Obama official to run state’s Office of Early Childhood
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy tapped a former Obama administration official Thursday as commissioner of the Office of Early Childhood, naming David Wilkinson to oversee a relatively new state agency that has been squeezed by shifting federal priorities and Connecticut’s chronic budget pressures.
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Senate leader readies bill to overhaul school funding
Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff hopes to release by the end of the week his bill to drastically rewrite how public schools are funded and to reroute more funding from neighborhood schools to charter schools. Release of the legislative language also would mean disclosure of the state aid each municipality would receive under Duff’s plan.
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Congress faces choice of budget deal or federal shutdown
WASHINGTON — When Congress returns from its two-week recess next week it will have just days to approve a bill that would fund the federal budget and prevent a government shutdown that would affect a broad swath of Connecticut residents – from Head Start students to workers in the state’s defense industry.
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What happens when a D-minus average isn’t good enough to graduate?
Windsor Locks is in its fifth year under a system that asks students to master specific skills in every subject. They can’t just do all their homework and ask for extra credit projects to obscure the fact that they didn’t truly learn something.