Wednesday Weekly: Thanksgiving Edition
With Thanksgiving upon us, we’ll keep today’s edition of Wednesday Weekly short and sweet. Here’s a quick rundown of the week’s top...
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- Oct 24
Educator Quality + Retention, Case Study of Pentagon’s Schools, Conservative Hate Group Comes to CT
Educator Quality and Retention In the News Yesterday, Education Week covered new data from the National Center for Education Statistics,...
- Sep 27
CT Invests in Dual Credit, Feds Expand Free Meals, New Haven + Quinnipiac Work on Teacher Shortage
CT Invests in Dual Credit Partnerships On Tuesday, Governor Ned Lamont and Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker announced a...
- Sep 20
State Councils Work on Policy Change, ERN Series on College Advising, Analysis of District Spending
State Councils at Work on Policy Reform This week saw the meeting of two important state councils that will play significant roles in...
- Sep 13
Calkins is Out at Columbia TC, News from Building Bridges Initiative, Need for Child Tax Credit
Lucy Calkins Officially Out at Columbia Teachers College In a dramatic about-face, Lucy Calkins' Teachers College Reading and Writing...
- Sep 6
Schools Starts Short of Teachers, Higher Ed Leadership Turnover, Must Read on Student Engagement
Schools Start the Year Short of Teachers In Connecticut and across the country, teacher shortages continue to dominate the headlines at...
- Aug 23
CSDE Prioritizing Teacher Recruitment and Retention, Signs of a Fiscal Cliff for Ed
CSDE to Prioritize Teacher Recruitment and Retention This past Thursday, Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker hosted...
- Aug 9
Court OKs Removal of Religious Exemptions to Vax, Report on Teacher Diversity, CT Free School Meals
Court Upholds CT Removal of Religious Exemptions to School Vax Requirements On Friday, the Hartford Courant reported that a federal...
- Aug 2
Dems on Teacher Shortages, Fairfield on Racial Imbalance, Blumenthal on Online Safety for Kids
Dems Lead National Efforts Targeting Teacher Shortages Last week, US Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) announced that he and Senator Susan Collins...
- Jun 14
Report on Literacy in Teacher Prep, Ending Free Lunches, Biden's Loan Forgiveness Under Fire
New NCTQ Report: Teacher Prep Lags on Literacy, Nationally and in CT Across the country, far too many students aren't learning to read...
- Jun 8
Sine Die: Education Wins in CT!
What a session! At midnight last night, the House and Senate adjourned "Sine Die," marking the end of a busy 2023 legislative session. CT...
- May 31
CT House and Senate Ban Transcript Trap; CEA Calls for More; Final Negotiations Over Biennial Budget
🎓 CT House and Senate Pass Ban on Transcript Trap Last night, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed SB 922, An Act Prohibiting...
- May 10
Congressional GOP Proposes Ed Cuts, NYC Emulates Right to Read, Voters of Color Favor School Choice
Congressional Republicans Propose Ed Cuts A couple of weeks ago, the US Department of Education put out a fact sheet regarding...
- Apr 25
CSCUs Fight Serious Cuts, and Interesting State Comparisons on Teacher Salary
CT State Colleges and Universities Fight Serious Cuts On Monday, the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCUs) held a press...
- Apr 19
Approps Disappoints on Danbury Charter, the Dems’ Budget Proposal, + School Choice on National Stage
Appropriations Committee Disappoints on Danbury Charter "Regretfully, no." "Unfortunately, no." "I support charters, but I am a ‘no’ on...
- Mar 8
Special Ed Shortages in CT, Unpacking SB 1, CT Highlighted for Program to Address Absenteeism
Special Education Shortages in Connecticut A WFSB story from Monday looked at the impact of the shortage of special education teachers on...
- Jan 25
New Right to Read FAQ; the ROI of Higher Ed; and Teacher Shortages Prompt Student Relocation
New: “Right to Read” Implementation FAQ Following last week's meeting of the Reading Leadership Implementation Council—the Right to Read...
- Jan 4
What’s New at the Capitol in 2023?
Happy New Year! The 2023 legislative session will begin later today. Governor Ned Lamont will be inaugurated into his second term at noon...
- Nov 30, 2022
Levers for More Equitable Teacher Pension Financing, Event on The Science Behind Reading
Levers for More Equitable Teacher Pension Financing Last week, State Comptroller Natalie Braswell announced that her office would...
- Nov 23, 2022
Fairfield University Is Worst in Nation for Pell, Teacher Shortages, Charities to Support
Fairfield University Is Worst in Nation for Pell Enrollment Over the weekend, The New York Times covered a troubling finding about...
- Oct 19, 2022
CFBP on “Transcript Trap” Abusive, Meriden Math Efforts Make National News, Student Loan Forgiveness
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Finds “Transcript Trap” Abusive The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) “Student Loan...
- Sep 28, 2022
Special Report: CT’s Teacher Diversification Efforts Not Keeping Pace with Need
ERN CT Report: CT’s Teacher Diversification Efforts Not Keeping Pace with Need Research shows that when students of color are taught by...
- Aug 24, 2022
Protecting Vulnerable Kids, New England School Chiefs, Back-to-School Week
Centralized Oversight to Protect Vulnerable Kids Over the past week, two high profile incidents have demonstrated the importance of...
- Aug 17, 2022
Investigating Teacher Shortages, and the Importance of Herd Immunity
Will There Really Be Teacher Shortages in CT? In Connecticut and across the country, a lot of ink has been spilled this summer about...
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