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February 10, 2012
The state has spent more than $200 million to build
schools around the state for 19 agriculture programs, but 30 percent of the
seats are empty.
"They built all these schools, but they forgot
about giving us the money to operate them," Bill Davenport, director of
one of the programs, said of the 1,500 seats that go unfilled each year.
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February 9, 2012
Teachers aren't the only ones who will soon be
graded and put on a path to improve or be dismissed. A plan to evaluate the
state's 1,200 principals is also moving forward, and will likely be approved by
the state's Board of Education Friday.
"There will be a state model for
principals," Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said, after a meeting
where educators -- including groups that represent school principals, teachers
unions and school boards -- agreed upon the plan.
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February 9, 2012
Meriden -- To
begin the job of selling his proposed education reforms, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy visited a school Thursday in a district
with a young, dynamic superintendent and the challenges of student poverty and
limited resources.
Students stared wide-eyed as Malloy swept into
classrooms at Benjamin Franklin Elementary, trailed by a retinue that included
Superintendent Mark Benigni, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and
the state commissioner of education, Stefan Pryor.
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February 8, 2012
A year after building the largest fiscal security
blanket in more than two decades of state budgets, Gov. Dannel
P. Malloy moved onto the fiscal high wire without a net.
Malloy spoke decisively Wednesday about finding
spending cuts to keep his $20.7 billion plan for 2012-13 in balance, but
lawmakers and the state's chief business lobby balked at the plan's barely
visible margin for error.
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February 8, 2012
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is
calling on legislators to completely change how the state's 45,000 teachers
earn tenure by linking teachers' job security to student performance and
teacher evaluations.
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February 8, 2012
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy
unveiled a revised, $20.73 billion budget plan for the next fiscal year, adding
nearly $330 million in spending over the preliminary budget, largely to fund
additional education aid for towns and to bolster the state employees' pension
fund.
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February 8, 2012
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy
asked state legislators today to send an additional $50 million to school
districts, a move that advocates say will cover a portion of what the state
owes them.
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February 7, 2012
Elissa Maillet worries she's not going to be able to get a
teaching job when she graduates from Central
Connecticut State
University in two years,
but the sophomore with a 3.6 GPA is positioned to profit from higher teacher
standards proposed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
If Malloy succeeds, the pool of her would-be
competitors for jobs will get smaller.
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February 7, 2012
Unfazed by a looming
state Supreme Court decision that could say the state overstepped when
replacing Bridgeport's
school board, the governor wants the state to intervene in up to 25 of the
state's lowest-performing schools to turn them around.
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February 7, 2012
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is proposing a
30 percent increase per student in charter school funding and the opening of
five new charter schools.
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February 2, 2012
West Hartford --
Nearly 6,500 students in Connecticut
enter kindergarten each year never having attended preschool. Gov. Dannel
P. Malloy wants to reduce that number by 500 students in the state's
poorest districts.
"We've got to close that achievement gap"
between low-income students and their peers who attend preschool, he said
Thursday, standing on the playground of the School for Young Children at St.
Joseph College. "This is the best invested dollar."
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February 1, 2012
The peace between the teachers unions and the Malloy
Administration ended Tuesday, one week before legislators convene at the State
Capitol to get to work on a major education overhaul.
The battle comes from Gov. Dannel
P. Malloy's shutting down the Connecticut Education Association's initiative to allow educators to set the certification
requirements for themselves. Instead, he plans to link
the new teacher evaluation system with a new three-tier teacher
certification system, where only the best teachers will get the "master
certificate" label.
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January 27, 2012
If President Obama has
his way, the money that colleges receive from Washington will soon go to schools that can
lower their tuition or at least hold it steady.
That may be a problem for Connecticut's 17 public
colleges, which have almost doubled tuition and fees over the last decade and have already approved tuition increases for the next school year that exceed
the rate of inflation
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