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Connecticut features prominently in a
new Brookings Institution report about housing and education inequality -- and
not in a good way.
The study found that restrictive zoning
laws were highly correlated with educational achievement gaps in the 100
largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Three
of the best examples? Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven.
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April 13, 2012
Legislators have said they hope the unions
and the Malloy administration can come to some agreement, but this
advertisement is not likely the peace offering necessary to get the groups
talking again.
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April 12, 2012
Legislators and Gov. Dannel
P. Malloy may agree that an education overhaul package will include a $40
million bump in funding for districts that make necessary reforms. But the
governor warned municipal leaders from the lowest-achieving districts Thursday
not to count on that money.
"I think this money is very much in
the lurch until we have an educational bill that we can agree on," Malloy
said after meeting with mayors and other leaders from municipalities with
low-performing school districts.
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April 5, 2012
Storrs -- Mention the University of Connecticut,
and many people immediately think of the university's championship basketball
teams.
UConn President Susan Herbst would like them to think
of cutting-edge research labs, top-notch professors and talented students, too.
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April 4, 2012
State Board of Education members angrily
criticized lawmakers' attempts to scale back a major education reform bill,
saying Wednesday that the watered-down bill could stall the effort to fix the
state's worst schools.
"I've watched this process ... with
real dismay," board Chairman Allan Taylor said of changes made last week
by the legislature's Education and Appropriations committees to limit a
sweeping reform package proposed by Gov. Dannel P.
Malloy.
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April 2, 2012
For the past two years, the state's 17 vo-tech schools' repeated requests for money for basic
building maintenance and to update equipment and textbooks have been largely
ignored.
Now that it's seen as a direct pipeline to
employers seeking workers, the vo-tech system Friday
received a major influx of funding -- nearly $10 million -- from the State Bond
Commission.
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March 29, 2012
By Keith M. Phaneuf
and Arielle Levin Becker and Jacqueline Rabe Thomas
Despite fiscal constraints, the
Appropriations Committee restored funding Thursday for health care for the poor
and the University of Connecticut Health Center, canceled a second wave of
transit fare hikes and rejected several agency mergers sought by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration.
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March 29, 2012
Minority Republican legislators
insisted Thursday they can shave more than $340 million off Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget plan for next year, add more than
160 new state troopers and still provide modest income and sales tax breaks
next fiscal year. The Appropriations Committee rejected the plan in a
party-line vote. Read more
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March 29, 2012
The legislature's budget-writing committee
poked another hole in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's
education reform agendaThursday,
recommending a significantly smaller budget for his initiatives. The Education
Committee earlier this week approved a bill that turned many of his
recommendations into studies.
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March 29, 2012
Public expressions of teachers' anger
toward Gov. Dannel P. Malloy over his education
reforms may be dimming as the state's largest teachers' union is urging members
to stay away from the governor's public forums.
"I would love for you to give me some
ideas," Malloy said in a half empty auditorium Wednesday. "I would
love for you to challenge me."
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March 27, 2012
One day after legislators substantially
watered-down his proposed education reforms,
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy opted for a resolute, if
diplomatic, approach to the revisions by the Education Committee.
"What I like is that everyone admits
that this is not the final bill," Malloy told reporters Tuesday.
"I'll certainly be speaking to legislative leadership about that... There
is no expectation that I am going to sign the current bill."
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March 26, 2012
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy
has made it clear that he does not want the state to wait for a consensus with
special interest groups before moving forward on the changes he has proposed to
the state's public schools. Some state legislators showed Monday night they
have other plans.
"I hope it's something we
can all agree on," Rep. Andrew Fleischmann, D-West Hartford, the
co-chairman of the legislature's Education Committee, said before the panel
voted 28-5 to downgrade major elements of
Malloy's proposals to a study.
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March 26, 2012
Gov. Dannel
P. Malloy's plans for education reform got a dramatic rewrite Monday by the
legislature's Education Committee, but the changes are only one step in a
process that some leaders say will end with high-level negotiations by top
lawmakers and the administration.
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March 24, 2012
Just 35 percent of Connecticut eighth
graders who even took the national science exam in 2009 passed it.
So, in an attempt to increase
the importance of science instruction, the state Department of Education plans
to begin using the state science tests that most students take in fifth, eighth
and 10th grades and, for the first time, hold schools accountable when students
fail to show improvement.
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March 23, 2012
Like Connecticut,
other states, too, have run into heated opposition to school reforms, according
to three top state education leaders who appeared at a forum in New Haven Friday.
"It's been incredibly
loud -- the amount of noise from the media and the community. ... It's really
quite an experience," Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman said
of that state's effort to revamp its teacher evaluation system.
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March 21, 2012
Connecticut voters support
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's push for teacher tenure
reform and Sunday liquor sales, while the state is evenly divided on the
governor's job performance, according to a Quinnipiac University poll
released Wednesday.
The poll also found
across-the-board voter support for the legalization of medical marijuana and
strong opposition to abolishing the death penalty, two issues to be debated
Wednesday by the legislature's Judiciary Committee.
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March 20, 2012
It began with a governor with ambitious
reform plans appearing to publicly chide their profession: "In today's
system, basically the only thing you have to do is show up for four years...and
tenure is yours."
The comment has become a spark plug that
keeps firing, setting off angry teachers.
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March 20, 2012
Washington -- The average American is barred by
the embargo from traveling to Cuba, but Connecticut
students are packing their bags to visit the island.
After President Obama loosened travel restrictions last year to allow
greater religious, cultural and academic travel to Cuba,
a number of Connecticut
colleges rushed to take advantage of the opening.
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March 14, 2012
"This is the state that
has a Democratic governor and a Democratic legislature that is taking the most
aggressive stance on education reform," Michelle Rhee
told the small crowd.
"If this (reform) bill is
defeated, it will send a message to other Democratic governors in other states,
'Don't take this issue on. ... It's not worth it. It's politically too
hard.'"
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March 14, 2012
New Haven -- New Haven
teachers were apprehensive when they backed a new evaluation system three years
ago, but they were not angry.
As New Haven Superintendent
Reginald Mayo said Tuesday night, "It has been done through collaboration
... We are doing it through consensus."
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