Disruptions to programs like SNAP have renewed calls for CT to do what it can to ensure that children are fed in schools.
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Transformative CT early childhood education bill gets full passage
The bill promises to transform early childhood care and education for generations by eventually allowing free access for qualifying families.
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Group home workers join with nursing home workers in strike threat
Unless the groups reach an agreement, 1,700 CT group home workers will join 6,000 nursing home workers who have already pledged to strike.
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Who gets to decide how CT should spend opioid settlement funds?
Lawmakers and advocates are divided on whether to allow the governor and legislature to weigh in on how opioid legal settlements are used.
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If the guardrails are unconstitutional, then what?
Connecticut does not need to choose between respecting its Constitution and enacting fiscally responsible budgets. It can and should do both.
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The bond lock impermissibly delegates legislative authority to bondholders
The bond lock is invalid because there is no provision in the state constitution authorizing the legislature to delegate budgeting power to other entities.
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The guardrails impermissibly bind future legislatures
The 2017 legislative history of CT’s statutory budget guardrails proves indisputably that they were enacted with the intent to bind future legislatures.
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The guardrails violate the majority vote rule
The CT Constitution does not authorize the General Assembly to deny a majority of the House and Senate the right to amend budget laws– except for the limited circumstance of the constitutional state spending cap.
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The CT Constitution’s text does not authorize the guardrails
Is there any provision in the state constitution that either explicitly or by implication authorizes the General Assembly to enact the guardrails? No,
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Are CT’s budget guardrails constitutional?
Our constitution empowers our elected representatives to assume an active lawmaking role rather than to acquiesce to the passive role imposed by the Guardrails.
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Inside a plan to get CT’s 119K ‘disconnected youth’ back on track
A new report outlines a plan to re-engage young people via education, job training and mental health services. Here’s what to know about it.
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CT urges students to apply for $10K educator diversity scholarship
Under the program, students from CT’s priority districts, can receive up to $10K each year to pursue a career in education.
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CT higher ed students, faculty plead for funding boost at hearing
Gov. Lamont has remained adamant that higher education systems should have been preparing to live without the expiring COVID relief funds.
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Advocates: Proposed budget would hit CT students of color hardest
Students of color and the districts that traditionally teach the majority of them would feel the brunt of proposed cuts, stakeholders said.
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UConn budget cuts would ‘destabilize’ university, staff say during protest
UConn is expecting a $70 million deficit in the fiscal year that begins in July. Staff and students fear cuts will ‘destabilize’ the university.
