Lack of quorum forces state education board to cancel meeting
Gov. Ned Lamont hasn't filled six vacancies, which has also slowed the selection of a new education commissioner.
View ArticleCommunity college students likely to face 2 percent increase next year
Connecticut students would pay $92 more next year in annual tuition and and fees at the state's 12 community colleges under a proposal to be considered Wednesday.
View ArticleEducation Committee approves Lamont’s watered-down regionalization bill
Gov. Ned Lamont's two key education bills -- including one intended to push school districts toward regionalization -- were approved by a legislative committee Friday.
View ArticleHerbst, other UConn officials, racked up $214,000 of unused vacation time...
Herbst says she will forfeit the 54 days she accrued above the 60-day limit, but she is still eligible to receive $156,279 for the rest of the unused vacation time when she leaves state service.
View ArticleLawmakers pepper Ojakian with questions about college consolidation plan
Ojakian expects that when the 12 community colleges are consolidated into one state college -- in 2023, if all goes as planned -- the annual savings will be $23 million.
View ArticleDeLauro takes on DeVos failed charter schools, education budget cuts
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was put on the spot over a new report that said charter schools wasted $1 billion in federal money.
View ArticleCT schools defend policies as Trump threatens funding over free speech
The Trump administration did not say what would prompt a school to lose its funding under the new "free speech" policy.
View ArticleGov. Lamont drops “redistricting” from controversial bill to get schools to...
Some residents and advocates expressed relief about the revisions, while others said they still could not support the governor's plan.
View ArticleElection of first openly gay Kid Governor is a milestone. But coming out...
Ella Briggs, 11, is one of a growing number of kids who are coming out at an early age. She's also Connecticut's first openly gay Kid Governor.
View ArticleNew plan emerges to ease shared services across school districts
The plan is intended as alternative to the hotly contested school regionalization bills.
View ArticleBills address school discipline, faculty diversity, college costs
A slew of lesser-known education bills could change the way kids learn.
View ArticleJudge rules magnet school discrimination case belongs in federal court
A civil rights case alleging that the state’s lottery system for high-performing magnet schools is discriminatory will be heard in federal court, a judge ruled late Thursday. The case could upend...
View ArticleBills that would stop community college merger clear committee
Lawmakers on the Higher Education Committee unanimously supported bills that would stop plans to merge the state's 12 community colleges.
View ArticleCSCU proposes 5 % tuition increase next year at four state universities
The proposed tuition hike would translate into $804 more next year for in-state students attending Central Connecticut State University in New Britain and $899 more at Southern Connecticut State...
View ArticleSchool regionalization bills sow confusion, spread fear
One of the bills calls for remaking school districts in the image of the state's probate court map, but its author says that was never his intent.
View Article‘Free college,’ increasingly popular, complicated, for states
Lawmakers in 23 states are floating “free college” bills this year, Connecticut included.
View ArticleFaculty, students protest consolidation plan for colleges
The group delivered a petition to Gov. Ned Lamont's office and called on him to help.
View ArticleHigher ed leaders: State funding nice, but not enough
The state's huge unfunded pension liabilities are bearing heavily on the state's universities and their students, leaders said Thursday.
View ArticleApproval for ‘one college’ years away, but CSCU presses forward with...
Critics of the plan fear it could put the state at risk of losing its accreditation, incur extra expenses, and hurt students.
View ArticleOpponents of school regionalization to descend on Capitol
Thousands of Connecticut residents are alarmed by what they see as a threat to their childrens' education - an attempt by lawmakers to take away local control of their schools.
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