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Gregory Gray resigns as president of Connecticut college
system
By: JACQUELINE RABE THOMAS | August 14,
2015 CTMirror.org
Gregory Gray, the embattled president of the state's largest
public college system, notified his board Friday in a one-sentence resignation
letter that he will step down on Dec. 31.Continue Reading →
Filed under: HIGHER
EDUCATION, Board of Regents for Higher Education, community
colleges, CSU,Gregory Gray
DCF
commissioner tells legislators: Don’t close juvenile jails
By: JACQUELINE
RABE THOMAS | August 12, 2015 CTMirror.org
Under fire over questions about how youths are
treated while incarcerated — and facing calls from advocates to close the
state’s juvenile jails in Middletown — Department of Children and Families
Commissioner Wednesday reaffirmed her commitment to keeping the locked
facilities she runs open. Continue Reading →
Filed under: SCHOOLS/CHILD
WELFARE, Casey
Foundation, Child
Adocate, Committee
on Children, Connecticut
Juvenile Justice Allliance, Connecticut
Juvenile Training School, Connecticut
Voices for Children, Diana
S. Urban
Minority
representation in school-to-prison pipeline draws scrutiny
By: JACQUELINE
RABE THOMAS | August 11, 2015 CTMirror.org
Last school year, 1,738 children were arrested while
at school — a number that has increased since the state began tracking
school-based arrests four years ago.Continue Reading →
Filed under: SCHOOLS/CHILD
WELFARE
How
many arrests have there been in your school?
By: ALVIN
CHANG | August 11, 2015 CTMirror.org
Find out the number of arrests there have been in your
school since the 2011-12 school year — and what the arrests were
for. Continue Reading →
Filed under: SCHOOLS/CHILD
WELFARE, arrests, juvenile
justice, school
arrests
DCF
chief to publicly discuss responses to two critical reports
By: JACQUELINE
RABE THOMAS | August 10, 2015 CTMirror.org
Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz has been asked to come before the state panel
responsible for overseeing juvenile justice in the wake of two reports that
detail problems at the state's juvenile jails. Continue Reading →
Filed under: SCHOOLS/CHILD
WELFARE, CJTS, juvenile
justice
Complaint
says Bridgeport’s special education problems persist
By: JACQUELINE
RABE THOMAS | August 7, 2015 CTMirror.org
Nineteen months after state investigators determined
that the state's largest school district "systemically violated"
state and federal laws created to ensure the needs of special education
students are promptly met, the attorneys for eight Bridgeport students
complained to the state that the problems fester. Continue Reading →
Filed under: K-12, SCHOOLS/CHILD
WELFARE
Most
middle and high schools start too early, CDC study says
By: ARIELLE
LEVIN BECKER | August 6, 2015 CTMirror.org
In Connecticut,
fewer than 5 percent of middle and high schools started at 8:30 or later, one
of the lowest rates in the country. Continue Reading →
Filed under: HEALTH
CARE, K-12, SCHOOLS/CHILD
WELFARE, CDC, Centers
for Disease Control,school
start time
A UConn Foundation
profile in six graphs
By: JACQUELINE
RABE THOMAS | August 6, 2015 CTMirror.org
The University
of Connecticut spends $7
million each year supporting its foundation; and in return that fundraising arm
doles out about $40 million a year. Here are six charts that profile the UConn foundation's financial performance. Continue Reading →
Filed under: HIGHER
EDUCATION, Joshua
Newton, UConn Foundation, UConn President Susan Herbst
Juvenile
incarceration in Connecticut: A tale of two agencies
By: JACQUELINE
RABE THOMAS | August 5, 2015 CTMirror.org
It is a tale of two state agencies that run Connecticut’s juvenile
justice system. One is now under fire from child advocates and attorneys for
mistreating incarcerated youth. The other agency once was, but is now
considered a national model. Continue Reading →
Filed under: SCHOOLS/CHILD
WELFARE, CJTS, juvenile
justice
Auditors
find some DCF employees showing up late for work
By: JACQUELINE
RABE THOMAS | July 30, 2015 CTMirror.org
A number of state
employees at the Department of Children and Families routinely show up late for
work and are still paid for a full day, state auditors reported Thursday.
Continue Reading →
Filed under: SCHOOLS/CHILD
WELFARE
Auditors
criticize UConn’s award of $93K in bonuses without
criteria
By: KEITH
M. PHANEUF | July 29, 2015 CTMirror.org
The University
of Connecticut doled out
more than $93,000 in one-time performance bonuses to six employees to recognize
their work implementing a new financial reporting system, the state auditors
reported Wednesday. Continue Reading →
Filed under: BUDGET/ECONOMY, HIGHER
EDUCATION, auditors
of public accounts, bonuses,UConn, University
of Connecticut
Auditors:
UConn ‘burdened’ CT with $77M in ‘unnecessary
interest costs’
By: KEITH
M. PHANEUF | July 29, 2015 CTMirror.org
The University of Connecticut burdened the state with an
estimated $77 million in “unnecessary interest costs” when it secured financing
19 months ago for a new ambulatory services center in at the UConn Health Center in Farmington, the state auditors of
public accounts reported Wednesday. Continue Reading →
Filed under: BUDGET/ECONOMY, HIGHER
EDUCATION, auditors
of public accounts, bonding, John
C. Geragosian, Robert
M. Ward, UConn, UConn Health Center
Legislative
hearings will probe conditions at state’s juvenile jails
By: CT
MIRROR STAFF | July 28, 2015 CTMirror.org
Legislative hearings will be held to probe conditions and
practices at the state's jails for juvenile offenders after reports that they
placed youths "at risk of physical and emotional harm.” Continue Reading →
Filed under: POLITICS, SCHOOLS/CHILD
WELFARE, Brendan
Sharkey, Connecticut
Department of Children and Families, Connecticut
Juvenile Training School, Martin
Looney, Pueblo
Unit for girls
DCF
vows to reduce restraints, improve clinical care at juvenile jails
By: KEITH
M. PHANEUF | July 27, 2015 CTMirror.org
The state Department of Children and Families unveiled
plans Monday to reduce the use of restraints and seclusion and expand clinical
staffing and counseling at the state’s juvenile jails. Continue Reading →
Filed under: SCHOOLS/CHILD
WELFARE, Connecticut
Juvenile Training School, Department
of Children and Families, Pueblo
Unit for girls, restraints, seclusion
The
Mirror’s ‘Small State, Big Debate: Race’ event set for Oct. 6
By: STAFF
REPORT | July 27, 2015 CTMirror.org
The Connecticut Mirror, the state’s award-winning, nonprofit
public policy news organization, will hold its second statewide public policy
event, “Small State,
Big Debate: Race,” on Tuesday, October 6, at Fairfield University.
Tickets go on sale today with an early bird special through Aug. 20. Find all
the details here. Continue Reading →
Filed under: BUDGET/ECONOMY, HEALTH
CARE, POLITICS, SCHOOLS/CHILD
WELFARE, WASHINGTON, Charles
Blow, CT
Mirror, Fairfield
University
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