Accountability

Indoctrination by Book Banning, Anti-Racism Programs Needed in CT Schools

Indoctrination by Book Banning The free speech nonprofit PEN America has released a new report this week that looks at how advocacy...

NAEP Shows Declines in Math + Reading, National Literacy Shift, and Stefanowski's Extremist Rhetoric

National Test Results Show Declines in Math and Reading On Thursday, the National Center for Education Statistics released new data...

SBAC Data Shows Significant Pandemic Slide, Biden’s New Student Loan Offering Gets A LOT of Feedback

SBAC Data Shows Significant Pandemic Slide Late last week, the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) published the results of...

CT Praised for Summer Learning, Fed Investments in Ed Fall Short, the Work to End Legacy Preference

CT Makes Ed Headlines for Both Summer Learning and Data Transparency It's #SummerLearningWeek! Our national affiliate, Education Reform...

New Alliance Districts, ERN Assessment Toolkit, and Undercounting Latinos in the Census

Stratford Joins Alliance District Program This past Wednesday, Stratford Superintendent Uyi Osunde announced that the school district had...

Invitation: How Teacher Pensions Impact Resource Equity; Biden's Spending Bill; + CT Equity Bills

You’re Invited! "Who Benefits? How Teacher Pensions Impact Resource Equity" At the end of 2021, the Equable Institute partnered with ERN...

The Condition of CT Ed; Ed Committee Approves Sheff; Higher Ed Committee Tackles College Access

The Condition of Education in CT On March 2nd, Commissioner of Education Charlene M. Russell-Tucker submitted to the State Board of...

Rebalancing Charter Authorization; Local Masking Decisions Underscore Inequity; and Mandating FAFSA

Rebalancing the Charter Authorization Process Over the weekend, the News-Times covered the ongoing issue of overcrowding in the Danbury...

Dems React to Sheff; Ed Equity Bills We're Watching; and CT Prepped to Address Reading Declines

Dems React to Sheff Settlement Last month, Governor Lamont and Attorney General Tong had announced a new settlement in the Sheff v....

End Legacy Preferences in CT; Gov's Budget Misses Opportunity for Kids; and CT Senate Dems Agenda

ALERT: Your Help Needed TODAY to End Legacy Preference in CT Last week, Connecticut's Higher Education Committee introduced new...

ERN CT 2022 Policy Priorities

The 2022 policy priorities for our affiliate, ERN CT, are designed to promote great educational opportunities and achievement for all by...

State Pursues Sheff Settlement; CSDE + ERN: “CT Earns Top Equity Rating;" Sec. Cardona's Priorities

State Pursues Settlement in Sheff v O’Neill On Thursday, Governor Lamont and Attorney General Tong announced that Connecticut had reached...

2021: A Year in Review

We are always trying to look toward the future, and most importantly what impact we can make for Connecticut students. But for today,...

Addressing Legacy Preferences at Yale, Ineffective Special Ed in CT, + Balanced Literacy Must Go