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...
- 7 days ago
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
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
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
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
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
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...
- Aug 10
Primary Day Edition
The Results Are In! The morning after Connecticut’s Primary Day, the votes are in for a handful of seats for US Senate, US House, State...
- Aug 3
CT's Long-Term Pension Debt, and Keeping Schools Safe and Healthy
Connecticut’s Long-term Pension Debt Yesterday, the CT Mirror's Keith Phaneuf wrote about a recent analysis of states' unfunded pension...
- Jul 27
Updates: ROI of Higher Ed in CT, and Right to Read Implementation
Update: ROI of Higher Ed in CT "A growing number of Americans are questioning the value of going to college," reads an NPR headline from...
- Jul 13
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...
- Jun 29
The Overturning of Roe, and CT’s New Special Education Data System
Educational Inequity and the Overturning of Roe: The US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade on Friday has had a deep emotional...
- Jun 22
State Makes Investments in Literacy, Segregation in CT Schools, Ed on the Ballot for Parents
State Department of Ed Makes Investments in Early Literacy (From left to right) Desi Nesmith, Irene Parisi, Senator Patricia Billie...
- Jun 15
Free School Lunch Ends This Month, Contemplating Gun Safety, Protecting LGBTQ+ Students
For Many, Free School Lunch Ends This Month June 30th will mark the end of a federal school meal program that has been in place...
- Jun 8
CT Ranks 48th in Racial Equality in Ed, USEd Takes on For-Profit Colleges, Prom Returns!
CT Ranks 48th Out of 50 States in Racial Equality in Ed Yesterday, WTNH reported on a new study by WalletHub, which has ranked...
- Jun 1
National and Local Literacy Coverage, LGBTQ Student Rights, and How Ed Impacts the Race for Governor
Hot Off the Presses: More National and Local Coverage on Settled Science of Reading A week and a half ago, The New York Times (NYT)...
- May 25
Trauma After Shootings, NSBA on Political Debate, Asian American + Pacific Islander History in CT
Students Face Trauma After Shootings It’s been a heartbreaking few weeks. Yesterday, a shooter at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas...
- May 18
"Right to Read" Implementation, ESSER Expenditures, CT Businesses Invest in College
An Update on “Right to Read” Implementation On Thursday, Chalkbeat reported that New York City (NYC) Mayor Eric Adams has announced an...
- May 4
Wednesday Weekly: Sine Die Edition
At midnight last night, the 2022 legislative session came to a close. A big THANK YOU to all the legislative leaders who have championed...
- Apr 20
GOP Targets Social-Emotional Learning, The Latest on High Dosage Tutoring, COVID School Policies
Conservatives Target Social and Emotional Learning On Thursday, the Hartford Courant explored one West Hartford mom's experience with...
- Apr 13
Governor’s Race Heats Up, Federal Threats to Charters, Connecticut Children Facing Food Insecurity
What We Are Watching: Governor’s Race Heats Up Yesterday's CTNewsJunkie and CT Post both looked at the first quarter fundraising for...
- Apr 6
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...
- Mar 30
EVENT: Resource Equity and the Teaching Workforce, Biden's Ed Agenda, and Implementing FAFSA Reqs
Friday’s Forum: Resource Equity and the Teaching Workforce Recently, ERN CT and the Equable Institute released a report that created a...
- Mar 16
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...