On many religious calendars, springtime is a season of renewal. During Passover, Easter and Ramadan, we celebrate, among other things, God’s commitment to both justice and human flourishing. This session, Connecticut’s legislators have an opportunity to demonstrate a similar commitment with the passage of S.B.1019, better known as Clean Slate. It was successfully voted out of the Senate on May 18, and now awaits House consideration.

Research shows Grade 9 on-track status is the best predictor of whether a student will graduate from high school within four years. Despite its importance, far too many students struggle with the middle-to-high school transition and experience increased anxiety and disengagement.

If you want to make your local Board of Finance member shudder, tell her that you moved to town for the great schools, but you’re planning to move away as soon as your kids graduate. Although many residents don’t realize it, while kids are in school, their household costs their town substantially more in educational spending than they pay into the budget in taxes.

How we use the land influences both the amount of transportation needed to move people and goods effectively as well as the location of specific transportation corridors.

What’s on the lunch menu in your school cafeteria? Pancakes, taco and pizza? How about carcinogens and hormone disruptors? If your school serves lunch on Styrofoam food service ware, your child is at risk. But there is a legislative solution – H.B. 6502.

Vaccination is a personal, private, sometimes-moral/religious decision that each person has a right to make for him or herself; we should also have the right to keep these decisions private — without displaying our medical status of vaccination to the world at-large.