News Briefs
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
Gov. Rell this month unveiled a revised budget that represents an increase of $114.4 million over last year’s K-12 allocation.
February 12, 2008
July 17, 2007
A school lawn-chemical ban gets mixed reviews in Connecticut.
June 19, 2007
Portable classrooms brought in to alleviate overcrowding at a Connecticut school don't meet noise standards under a new state law.
May 8, 2007
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
Worried about the possible shrinkage of their educated workforces in coming decades, the New England states have joined together on a new initiative aimed at preparing more students to tackle college.
May 2, 2006
Even the last states to be reviewed on their progress for meeting the “highly qualified” teacher provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act have some distance to travel before satisfying the law, according to Department of Education documents and officials.
April 18, 2006
Civil rights groups are seeking to join the federal government in defending the No Child Left Behind Act from a legal challenge by Connecticut, potentially giving the Bush administration important, if unlikely, new allies in arguing for the law.
February 7, 2006
How high school students perform on Connecticut’s state test is a strong predictor of their future success in college, according to one of the first studies of its kind.
February 6, 2006
Plaintiffs in Missouri and Connecticut are going to court to seek more state aid for schools.
December 6, 2005
Connecticut appears poised to join the growing list of states that have been sued in an effort to ensure that their public schools receive enough money.
November 15, 2005
Updated: January 17, 2008
