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After a two-year experiment, a question lingers
Is there hope for Harding High?
By Robert A. Frahm CTMirror.org
March 2, 2012
Now in the hands of a private consulting firm,
Bridgeport's Harding High School is a much different place than it was just a
year ago, but its recovery remains fragile -– threatened by budget cuts, staff
turnover and lingering doubts about whether the momentum can be sustained.
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By Neena Satija
, Diane Orson and Harriet Jones
“They’re very lacking in basic math. They’re
lacking in problem solving, they’re lacking in … the only way I can describe it
is, they don’t know how to go to work,” said Judi Spreda,
human resources manager at Peter Paul Electronics in New Britain. She is
referring to many of the high school graduates who
come to her looking for a job.
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March 1, 2012
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy got
the unscripted confrontations he wanted Thursday night at his first education
forum: teachers willing to mix it up over tenure reform, and a Bridgeport parent and former official furious
over the state takeover of that city's troubled schools.
In a community center in Hartford's South End, Malloy repeatedly
warned that failure by teachers and schools must have consequences.
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February 28, 2012
Following the Supreme Court's rejection of the
state's takeover
of Bridgeport's
Board of Education, the leader of the legislature's education committee said
the chances for a retroactive fix is unlikely.
"I have serious doubts whether I or other
legislators will continue such language. The matter has been dealt with and
it's closed. The Supreme Court has ruled," state Rep. Andy Fleischmann,
D-West Hartford, said.
February 28, 2012
A day after a compromise meant to neutralize liquor
reforms as an issue, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will try
today to further focus the press, public and legislature on education reforms
that are his top priority in 2012.
Malloy has overcome his staff's resistance and
intends to announce a series of free-wheeling education forums modeled after last
year's 17 town-hall style budget meetings that took him to every community with
a daily newspaper.
February 22, 2012
The governor wants to encourage regionalizing by
cutting back on how much the state sends to the smallest school districts. Tiny
Canaan, for example, spends $22,450 for each
of its 139 students, the most expensive per-student spending in the state.
But Canaan First Selectwoman Patricia Ally Mechare says regionalizing doesn't necessarily save money
and argues that her town is "being responsible by spending what it takes,
while the state hasn't."
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February 21, 2012
"We run the risk of losing good teachers, of
evaluation becoming a 'gotcha' practice, and of establishing a culture of fear,
rather than collaboration in our schools," Phil Apruzzese,
head of the state's largest teachers union, told the Education Committee.
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February 16, 2012
"Let's break down this brick wall," said
Sen. Beth Bye, the Senate chairwoman of the Higher Education Committee.
"Why not allow students who want to try, try?... It's a wild idea, I know, but let's let a college student
take a college course."
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February 15, 2012
Waves of retired teachers once covered by their
districts' health plans are opting to get insurance through the state's less
expensive policy.
If Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has his way, his
budget will slow this migration by increasing the cost the
state's 32,000 retired teachers and spouses would pay to join the state's
health plan. Almost two-thirds of the state's retired teachers get insurance
through the state.
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