Strip the mandates and return control and the money to the towns and cities and let them, in conjunction with parents and teachers, best decide how to educate their children and use their resources.
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Domestic workers deserve this bill of rights
In Bridgeport tomorrow, the Connecticut legislature’s Labor and Public Employees Committee will hear public testimony on an Act establishing a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights for Connecticut. We write today to voice our support for this act.
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Op-ed: CT bill could help keep our children safe from toxins
A large body of scientific evidence links exposure to toxic chemicals in consumer products, beginning in the womb, with the rise in many serious diseases we are seeing in this country.
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Op-ed: Mental illness: Another point of view
Neglected, in the tunnel-vision search for the biological cause and nature of “mental illness” (and its misleading promotion as established fact) is human experience.
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Op-ed: One easy step to double solar access in CT
Connecticut is considering a visionary bill that will greatly expand access to solar energy throughout the state.
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Op-ed: Correcting misconceptions about sexual violence
Public outrage and attention to misconceptions about sexual assault create an opportunity to have important public policy conversations.
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Op-ed: Time to face the facts and fix the problems
The Malloy administration tells us all is well, but Connecticut has lost its way.
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Op-ed: Revamp CT’s property tax system to overcome inequity, inefficiency
This should be the year policymakers start to revamp the state’s property tax structure. We know the system is unfair, and there is a clear path forward to fix it.
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Op-ed: Connecticut — Speak up! We’re listening.
At the end of 2013, we asked readers to submit suggestions about the issues lawmakers and policymakers should take up this year — the perfect time to give them an earful.
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Op-ed: Too many Connecticut families need affordable housing
The private market simply does not meet the need for housing for about one in every four families.
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Op-ed: Legislature must reform misguided drug-free zone laws
The current drug-free zone laws are based on faulty logic and poor design, and they are detrimentally impacting Connecticut in several ways.
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Op-ed: Common sense (and education reform)
Right now the voices of our “aristocracy” are drowning out the voices of experienced educators.
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Unjust prosecution shows why we need death-with-dignity laws
A dying family member, and those who love him or her, should be able to deal with this end-of-life tragedy in their own way, without heavy-handed government intrusion into their moment of profound sorrow.
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Op-ed: Connecticut: Restore the rights of adult adoptees
It’s time for Connecticut to join the growing ranks of states that are restoring the right of adult adoptees to access their original birth certificates. Connecticut should re-establish every adoptee’s right to their heritage, their ancestry, their current medical history and their very identity, a right that the state has been depriving us of since […]
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Op-ed: Connecticut’s place in the knowledge economy is linked to higher education
The caliber, vision and ingenuity of higher education places Connecticut in an enviable position, squarely on the lead edge of the accelerating pace of change.