Under a law passed in the General Assembly, Connecticut will study and then implement a statewide virtual school program under the control of the State Board of Education, possibly emulating the virtual school program in
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The Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee approved a bill that would allow $46 million in state bonding for the University of Connecticut to hire more research faculty. The bill comes as UConn and UConn Health
After a chaotic school year during the COVID-19 pandemic, teacher unions who pressed the governor to keep schools closed are now concerned virtual learning could become more common during non-emergency situations. A bill forwarded by
Members of the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee today heard from a diverse swath of individuals and organizations supporting a proposed state tax credit for donations to scholarship granting organizations. Nonprofit scholarship organizations, parents, representatives
Waterbury children will now have the opportunity to receive a partial scholarship to a private or parochial school of their parents’ choice, as the Children’s Educational Opportunity Foundation of Connecticut has expanded into the Waterbury
Former Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona, who was recently made U.S. Secretary of Education, is named in a lawsuit appeal brought by the Connecticut Parents Union in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals over the
As Connecticut’s teacher unions continue to push for remote learning, House Republicans yesterday sent a letter to the co-chairs of Connecticut’s Vaccine Advisory Group asking that school teachers and school employees over the age of
In an effort to spend down an accumulated $7 million in excess allocations, the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education spent $3.3 million on employee bonuses and furlough compensation, according to a newly-released audit
President of the CT AFL-CIO Sal Luciano sent a letter to Gov. Ned Lamont requesting the governor extend his executive order requiring school districts to continue paying staff and vendors until June of 2021 in
A coalition of unions representing teachers, paraprofessionals, janitors and bus drivers issued 13 “non-negotiable” standards for school reopening and have pushed for districts to delay in-person teaching for two weeks, but, according to the unions’