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Opinion: Education expert starting with the wrong question
1+ week, 4+ day ago (768+ words) Lamont’s Blue Ribbon Commission on K-12 Education, one thing became abundantly clear: the governor’s...The blame shifts to local boards of education....Blame local leadership for the chef’s recipe that put education on life support....Districts serving immigrant students require…...
$10M in grant funding will expand in-district special education in CT
3+ week, 2+ day ago (695+ words) The High-Quality Special Education Incentives Grant Program originated in the biennial budget proposal...State legislators kept the idea and wrote it into law (along with some bigger special education funding...The general aim of the grant is to get schools…...
Friction emerges as K-12 education commission weighs solutions
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1733+ words) Ned Lamont’s Blue Ribbon Commission on K-12 Education Funding and Affordability has a daunting task:...chief executive of the School and State Finance Project and one of Connecticut’s leading voices on education...
CT awarded $10 million federal grant to improve K-3 literacy
2+ week, 4+ day ago (579+ words) Department of Education. Gov....Ned Lamont and Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker announced the competitive award in a press...The money comes through the federal Education Innovation and Research program and will support the CT...The money will train teachers at…...
CT official argues fiscal reform could help address special ed crisis
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (1173+ words) Phaneuf, CT Mirror September 8, 2026 Special education programs face a funding crisis this year that...analyses of how Connecticut funds local schools and other municipal services, estimated special education...“The way that we fund education generally, and specifically special education, is…...
CT’s phone-free schools can restore more than student attention
1+ week, 6+ day ago (489+ words) Digital tools should serve a clear instructional purpose and coexist with discussion, handwriting, reading...
CT pilot aims to recruit more job coaches for people with disabilities
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (1636+ words) As efforts to address broader caregiving, special education and other support-oriented workforce shortages...
Opinion: Bridgeport's superintendent search is a sham
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (292+ words) bankrupting the school system (all of which caused the state to intervene) the Bridgeport Board of Education...In the end, the Bridgeport Board of Education does it again....If the board of education really cares about doing what’s best, they…...
Opinion: What Bridgeport and Fairfield reveal about who shows up for school
1+ week, 5+ day ago (381+ words) Missing weeks of instruction has consequences. But responsibility cannot belong only to families....
CT leaders cheer 5 years of LEAP as chronic absenteeism declines
3+ week, 4+ day ago (747+ words) LEAP operates as a partnership between the state of Connecticut, its Regional Education Service Centers...