Governor's Budget; The Push for Racial Admissions Data on IPEDS; + College Board on AP Black History
Money Talks: Will the Governor’s Budget Prioritize Ed? Governor Ned Lamont will deliver a budget address for the biennial 2024-25 budget...
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- Feb 1
#FinishTheFormula, The Absenteeism Crisis, The Cost of Free Lunch, and Black History Month
#FinishTheFormula Back in 2017, our affiliate, ERN CT, led bipartisan advocacy efforts to “Fix the Formula” that the state uses to fund...
- 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 18
Students Honor MLK, Update on “Right to Read,” SCOTUS Weighs Funding for Religious Charters
Students Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Over the long weekend, Connecticut citizens had the opportunity to honor the legacy of Dr....
- Jan 11
Remembering Rep Williams, Fed $ for R&D on Ed, Biden’s New Student Loan Proposal, New Faces of CT Ed
Remembering CT State Representative Q Williams Last week, the State of Connecticut began to mourn the loss and honor the life of State...
- 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...
- Dec 14, 2022
Remembering Sandy Hook, the US Student Debt Crisis, and Federal Guidance on COVID Relief Spending
Remembering Sandy Hook Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newton, Connecticut—the deadliest...
- Dec 7, 2022
About Last Night: Right to Read and Literacy in New Haven
It was an exciting night for proponents of Connecticut’s “Right to Read” legislation. In an event hosted by New Haven Reads at the Barack...
- 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...
- Nov 16, 2022
GOP Rhetoric Falls Flat, Killingly Board Ignored Student Needs, USEd Invests in Career Pathw
“Parental Rights” Rhetoric Falls Flat One week after the midterms, it’s clear that the most extreme education rhetoric of the GOP has...
- Nov 9, 2022
A Winning Night for CT Dems, “Right to Read” Center Stage at SBE Meeting
A Winning Night for CT Dems It might be Wednesday morning, but Election Night is still going in some key Connecticut races… Overall, it...
- Nov 2, 2022
Election Day Countdown, SCOTUS Considers Race-Conscious College Admissions
Election Day Countdown We are coming down from the Halloween sugar high…Now the real scary season starts! Next Tuesday, voters in...
- Oct 26, 2022
Poll Shows Dems Leading on Ed, Science of Reading on the National Stage, and NAEP Results
New DFER CT Poll Shows Democrats Leading on CT Education On Monday, we released a new poll of likely Connecticut voters, conducted by...
- Oct 25, 2022
Daily Kos: Morning Digest
CT-Gov: SurveyUSA for Education Reform Now Advocacy CT: Lamont (D-inc): 52, Stefanowski (R): 34 Read the full article here.
- 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...
- Oct 12, 2022
Chronic Absenteeism, Economic Challenges, and Wage Supports for Early Childhood Educators
Chronic Absenteeism Impacting Educational Attainment Recently, the Washington Post reported on an analysis by Johns Hopkins University...
- Oct 4, 2022
State Takes Strong Stance on Research-Based Literacy, Rep. Jim Clyburn Keynotes John Bailey Dinner
Extra! Extra! State Takes Strong Stance on Research-Based Literacy Big news on Thursday: the Center for Literacy Research and Reading...
- 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...
- Sep 21, 2022
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...
- Sep 14, 2022
Education on the Ballot, and the Value of Connecticut Higher Education
Education Is On the Ballot Yesterday, Emerson College Polling released a new survey, conducted for WTNH and The Hill in September, which...
- Aug 30, 2022
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...
- 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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