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...
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- May 24
House Passes Bill on Per Pupil Teacher Pension Inequities, Higher Ed + Social Mobility, and MORE
House Passes Bill Looking at Per Pupil Teacher Pension Inequities Late last night, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed their...
- May 17
Wednesday Weekly Special Edition: Report on Higher Ed
Today, our affiliate, ERN CT, released a new report analyzing completion rates and costs in Connecticut's four-year institutions of...
- 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...
- May 3
Teacher Pension Costs as Municipal Aid, CT on Ending the #TranscriptTrap, Student Homelessness Rises
Teacher Pension Costs as Municipal Aid Last week, the PIE Network held an event on teacher pension debt, focusing on the fact that the...
- Apr 26
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...
- Apr 5
Right to Read Legislative Forum, CT Tutoring to Address Math, + Introducing our new CEO
Right to Read Legislative Forum On March 29th—as leaders of the Right to Read CT Coalition—we were proud to have planned and co-hosted an...
- Mar 29
LOB Event on Districts Implementing Right to Read + Ed Committee Advances Charter Authorization Bill
TODAY AT 11: LOB Event Highlights Districts Implementing Right to Read Today at 11, the Right to Read CT Coalition, the Connecticut...
- Mar 22
Restraint and Seclusion in CT, New Haven Superintendent, Forum on Right to Read at the LOB
The Use of Restraint and Seclusion in CT Public Schools The past week has seen a lot of coverage on restraint and seclusion (R/S)...
- Mar 15
Legislature Tackles Pension Financing, Right to Read Keeps Rolling, State Invests in Summer Learning
Legislature Tackles Teacher Pension Financing Today, at noon, the Education Committee has another public hearing, with eleven bills 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...
- Mar 1
Legislative Update, and Supreme Court Considers Student Loan Relief
Legislative Update Two months into the legislative session, there has been a lot of action on the issue of educational equity. Here are...
- Feb 22
The Minority Advancement Program, and Ending the Transcript Trap in CT
Do You Know About The Minority Advancement Program? Last Wednesday, the Appropriations Committee heard budget presentations from the...
- Feb 15
Also in the Gov's Proposed Budget: Absenteeism, School Bonding and Affordable Housing
Last week, a lot of ink was spilled regarding the Governor’s proposed budget. There was as much coverage on what was excluded in the...
- Feb 8
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...
- 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...
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