With 40,000 students attending chronically low-performing schools, many thousands of families on wait lists for schools of choice, and the largest-in-the-nation achievement gap, Connecticut leaders must expand and sustain schools that are delivering results for students, especially children in poverty and children of color.
Op-Ed: Schools’ alarmed cries for help should echo across Connecticut
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John Daniels, New Haven’s first black mayor, passes
John C. Daniels, who served as New Haven’s first black mayor and brought community policing to the city, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 78.
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Pentagon’s woes are Sikorsky’s woes
WASHINGTON – Restrictions on Pentagon spending and uncertainty over federal government budgets are key reasons the company is considering selling or spinning off Sikorsky Aircraft, United Technology CEO Greg Hayes said.
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Feds say Connecticut ‘shortchanges’ low-income students
The federal government said Friday that Connecticut “shortchanges low-income, minority students.” The U.S. Department of Education released data showing that Connecticut school districts with high concentrations of students from low-income families spend 8.7 percent less for each student than their most affluent neighbors.
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Connecticut bilingual education programs need reform
Connecticut has the nation’s largest achievement gap between English Language Learners and their peers who are English fluent. it is the interest of everyone in the state that we fix this shameful situation by embracing educational models that have been proven to produce good results.
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Op-Ed: Connecticut bilingual education programs need reform
Connecticut has the nation’s largest achievement gap between English Language Learners and their peers who are English fluent. it is the interest of everyone in the state that we fix this shameful situation by embracing educational models that have been proven to produce good results.
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Stymied in Washington, labor still finds friends in Hartford
In the worlds of business and labor, Connecticut’s political identity is shaped by the partisan and ideological collisions that take place this time of year in the legislature’s Labor and Public Employees Committee. Inch for inch, its agenda Thursday had more controversial issues than most committees confront in a year.
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Murphy leads CT delegation in official overseas travel
WASHINGTON – When it comes to overseas travel, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, a member of the foreign relations committee, is the Connecticut congressional delegation’s most frequent flyer, taking nine official trips since being sworn in two years ago.
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Connecticut nonprofits are in an abusive relationship… with the state
For almost a quarter of a century the state has depended on private nonprofit organizations to provide services to people with disabilities in Connecticut. This includes services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental illness and addictions. For over two decades, the average increase to the contracts with these providers has been less than one percent per year.
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Op-Ed: Connecticut nonprofits are in an abusive relationship… with the state
For almost a quarter of a century the state has depended on private nonprofit organizations to provide services to people with disabilities in Connecticut. This includes services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental illness and addictions. For over two decades, the average increase to the contracts with these providers has been less than one percent per year.
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DeLauro reproves UTC chief over possible Sikorsky selloff
WASHINGTON – Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat who represents a congressional district that is home to Sikorsky Aircraft, blasted United Technology Corp. CEO Greg Hayes on Thursday, saying he is going back on his word to keep the helicopter maker in Stratford.
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Connecticut youth services bureaus provide high-value work, little cost
Connecticut’s 102 youth services bureaus annually serve thousands of children who are abused, abandoned, medicated and weary of lives chained to poverty. They use some $3.1 million dollars in state funds to leverage nearly ten times that amount from other sources. Cutting their funding would be costly in both money and lost services to some of the state’s most needy citizens.
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Op-Ed: Connecticut youth services bureaus provide high-value work, little cost
Connecticut’s 102 youth services bureaus annually serve thousands of children who are abused, abandoned, medicated and weary of lives chained to poverty. They use some $3.1 million dollars in state funds to leverage nearly ten times that amount from other sources. Cutting their funding would be costly in both money and lost services to some of the state’s most needy citizens.
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Connecticut’s misuse of eminent domain must end
The Connecticut Department of Transportation is over-reaching when it uses the right of eminent domain to sequester four private bus company licenses to operate between Hartford and New Britain — the route of the new CTfastrak bus system. This is a new and egregious misapplication of the right of eminent domain.
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Op-Ed: Connecticut’s misuse of eminent domain must end
The Connecticut Department of Transportation is over-reaching when it uses the right of eminent domain to sequester four private bus company licenses to operate between Hartford and New Britain — the route of the new CTfastrak bus system. This is a new and egregious misapplication of the right of eminent domain.