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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. Continue Reading →
The trial that will determine whether the state is spending enough money to provide all public school children in Connecticut with an adequate education will probably be delayed. It had been set to begin on Jan. 6. Continue Reading →
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 Justice in Education Funding to seal the academic records of student plaintiffs challenging the adequacy and fairness of funding for Connecticut’s schools. CCJEF attorney Megan Bannigan argued that the personal nature of the records, which include information about doctor’s notes and special education, among other things, warranted their being sealed. Dubay disagreed. Continue Reading →