Connecticut’s education commissioner is under consideration for U.S education secretary. A Connecticut source says the vetting is serious and substantive.
Miguel Cardona
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Lamont administration: Connecticut is first in U.S. to close digital divide for K-12 students
While Connecticut has provided laptops and internet access to everyone, data shows students learning online miss twice as much school.
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Governor takes a bow for students logging on. Data doesn’t back it up
Gov. Ned Lamont says online education during the pandemic is a success, but he isn’t comparing analogous information.
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Gov. Lamont is pushing local leaders to open school buildings. CT’s largest district decided against it.
New Haven Public Schools – where one out of every 26 students in Connecticut is enrolled – is going remote.
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A quarter of CT students went MIA when COVID closed schools. Could holding live, online classes lure them back?
At least 137,000 students didn’t show up for remote schooling last spring. Educators don’t want a repeat in the fall.
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Connecticut leaves it to local districts whether to reopen schools full-time
In a switch, the state will not dictate how instruction will be offered, leaving that to local school systems.
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Here’s how much education students lost when schools closed
One-in-25 students didn’t participate at all in online classes. That’s 137,000 children who lost learning.
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Governor orders schools to reopen in the fall. Teachers are concerned.
The reopening plan is contingent on COVID-19 infection rates remaining stable, the governor said.
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Achievement gaps for English learners linger, troubling CT’s first Hispanic education chief
Miguel Cardona, the state’s first Hispanic education commissioner, says the state isn’t doing a good enough job educating English learners.
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As COVID continues, so will high school graduations
Outdoor, in-person graduations for up to 150 students will be allowed as early as July 6 if current trends continue.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations jump after two week decline as state reports 77 additional deaths
The number of patients hospitalized with coronavirus jumped by three dozen people to a total of 1,500 on Tuesday.
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Some kids with disabilities can’t learn at home. Parents and advocates want to know: What’s the plan?
Online learning doesn’t work for thousands of special education children in the state. But it’s unclear how schools will help them make up for what they’re missing during COVID-19
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Lamont to keep schools closed another month despite ‘glimmer of hope’ that social distancing is working
The state reported 46 new hospitalizations Thursday — the lowest daily increase Connecticut has seen in two weeks.
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Connecticut bans large public events to slow COVID-19
The pandemic’s impact on Connecticut deepened Thursday with school closures and the governor’s ban on large events.
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Lamont, Cardona talk about education priorities from minority teacher recruitment to coding
Some educators in attendance Tuesday said while they agree with the governor’s broader vision, they didn’t hear much that was new. They hope to eventually get more specifics on his plan to improve Connecticut’s schools.