News Briefs
Police say they arrested a 17-year-old boy after he threatened in a Facebook posting to bring a gun to his high school and start shooting.
October 20, 2009
The U.S. Department of Education's inspector general says Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and other states are using stimulus money to plug budget holes, not boost school aid.
October 6, 2009
March 2, 2009
Mayor Eddie Perez of Hartford, Conn., has given up his leadership positions on the city’s board of education and school building committee.
February 23, 2009
Gov. M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut says she will ask lawmakers to allocate $10 million to help Connecticut social-service providers and schools pay their heating bills this winter.
October 20, 2008
Despite a roller-coaster economy, Connecticut’s K-12 budget for fiscal 2008-09 remained exactly as it had been fixed in last year’s legislative session.
July 15, 2008
The Reform Governance in Action training insists that school boards have a "theory of action" and stick to it.
October 12, 2009
The war in Iraq may have dominated public discussion leading up to last week’s midterm congressional elections, but debate over the No Child Left Behind Act was one of the most prominent domestic issues in three hotly contested House races in Connecticut, which is suing the federal government over funding for the law.
November 14, 2006
The Shays-Farrell race is one of three closely watched contests in Connecticut that could help determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterm elections Nov. 7.
October 24, 2006
Administrators who have been shaking up Connecticut’s system of technical schools for the past several years scored a victory last month when two of the schools were taken off the state’s watch list for low performance under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
October 10, 2006
A federal judge last week dismissed three of the four claims in Connecticut’s lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act, largely on procedural grounds.
October 3, 2006
A Connecticut teacher suspended without pay after he allegedly used an anti-gay term in remarks to a student in class was the beneficiary of a controversial fundraiser last week, staged by colleagues seeking to help him financially.
October 3, 2006
The state of Connecticut is seizing on language in a recent U.S. Supreme Court opinion on special education, saying it bolsters the state’s challenge to the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Several independent legal experts agree, although not without some cautionary notes.
July 7, 2006
Connecticut is on the verge of banning most sales of sodas and other sugary beverages in K-12 public schools as part of legislation that some observers say would create the strictest school nutrition policy adopted by any state.
May 5, 2006
