Community college agenda: The endgame is a fair chance society
The American Association of Community College’s “Community College Agenda for the Trump Administration” is a blueprint for implementation of critical national higher education policy priorities,...
View ArticleAt a time of budget crisis, funding for child care must be a priority
On February 21, parents and advocates gathered at the capitol to testify to the legislature on the importance of Care4Kids, Connecticut’s child care subsidy program, which provides critical assistance...
View ArticleA rallying cry for equitable education funding in Connecticut
E4E-Connecticut’s teacher members -- who collectively decided to take on the issue of funding reform -- are urging state leaders to give serious consideration to the fair and equitable appropriation to...
View ArticleThe clock is ticking on sensible state budget reform
I read with great interest Keith Phaneuf's recent series on Connecticut's serious budget challenges. He is clearly the best journalist on this subject in our state. Last month I watched Gov. Dannel...
View ArticleConnecticut schools must illuminate history’s ‘big story’
Since 2013 the C3 Common Core has changed the way social studies is taught in our public schools. This has done irreparable harm to students understanding history’s “Big Story.” Fortunately, the...
View ArticleA day in the life of a UConn adjunct faculty member
An adjunct faculty member at UConn's Hartford regional campus explains her busy life, teaching duties and the need for the university to evaluate the way it treats adjunct professors and find ways to...
View ArticleHousing opportunity is educational opportunity
I have always believed that my success and opportunities in this country were attributable to my access to a solid education, and this fundamental belief has driven my passion to eliminate the...
View ArticleState should heed changes in SBAC testing
As Connecticut students get ready to take the Smarter Balanced Assessment tests, the time is now for parents to let their children's teachers and principals know that they are sick and tired of...
View ArticleQuality education requires balanced approach to teacher recruitment
Just as we expect the standards for doctors to remain high and the requirements for becoming a lawyer to remain rigorous, we should expect that the systems preparing those who teach our students remain...
View ArticleLawmakers must correct irrational school funding system
Gov. Dannel Malloy has proposed massive changes in education funding and the legislature is beginning to work on his proposals. While it is extremely unlikely that the governor's radical proposals will...
View ArticleA new group seeks to fight language barriers in Bridgeport schools
A group of parents with children in Bridgeport schools has created a new organization, Parents In Action, that seeks to remedy communication problems between school officials and parents whose first...
View ArticleNew school funding essential to giving some students a voice
Our state’s funding formula, which was intended to equalize education funding in each district, is irrational and disservices students in our neediest communities. We’ve used an arbitrary baseline for...
View ArticleThere are better budget options than raising taxes and cutting services for...
A common-sense approach to the state’s challenges is one that includes new revenue in addition to strategic spending cuts that does not ask low- to moderate-income residents to disproportionately...
View ArticleState’s cities must be at the heart of an economic rebound
Our state’s challenges are real but surmountable. As we confront them, we, as a state, need to consider putting “we before me.” The collective mentality among towns and cities cannot be that spending...
View ArticleSave Quinebaug Valley Community’s Willimantic location!
Quinebaug Valley Community College has been on Main Street in Willimantic since 1999. While Quinebaug Valley Community College may not be centerfold on Main Street; it is the heart that keeps Main...
View ArticleState’s education funding formula needs to be fixed
School funding is currently unpredictable and has left towns that need help severely underfunded for more than a decade. Legislators must do their jobs and come up with a fair formula now. Otherwise...
View ArticleLawmakers forcing Waterbury charter school’s future into ‘limbo’
As the leaders of Brass City Charter School, the only public charter school in Waterbury, we know firsthand how special our school is to our community. But despite our successes, and even in light of...
View ArticleNeediest students first to be sacrificed in CSCU consolidation ‘plan’
In recommending a plan to consolidate the state’s 12 community colleges in order to sustain the larger CSCU system, President Mark Ojakian maintains that this latest disruption in Connecticut higher...
View ArticleConsolidating Connecticut’s colleges is a desperate move — and insane
While neighboring New York has declared free two-year and four-public education, and Massachusetts/Rhode Island maintain their high standards for accessible public education, Connecticut seems to have...
View Article‘All in’- Equitable funding for all Connecticut schools
Posted on a wall in my second-grade classroom is a motivational poster that states, “We’re all in this together!” These five powerful words remind my second-grade students the importance of unity,...
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