Dianne Kaplan deVries, the driving force behind the coalition that won a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling that the state pay for every child to receive an adequate education, died Sunday from cancer.
Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding
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Bridgeport public schools losing big money to charters
Recent claims about charter schools and their funding by the state director of the Northeast Charter Schools Network are false and misleading, at least as they pertain to Bridgeport. According to one city school administrator’s calculations, charter schools will siphon away over $26 million dollars from our school system over the next five years.
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Judge denies move to seal student records in landmark case
Student academic records to be used in a landmark education lawsuit will not be sealed in the upcoming trial, a Superior Court judge has ruled. “This will not be a trial decided by secret evidence,” Superior Court Judge Kevin Dubay said in a hearing earlier this month. He denied a request by the Connecticut Coalition for […]
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School funding lawsuit trial postponed
A landmark lawsuit challenging the adequacy and fairness of the way Connecticut funds its schools will go to trial at the beginning of next year — three months later than its last scheduled start date.