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…
Education
Administrators at the University of Connecticut want the board of trustees to approve a new contract for non-teaching employees. The trustees should refuse and ask for a better deal, for students and for the people…
EAST HARTFORD - The Yankee Institute's Deputy Director Heath Fahle and Investigative Reporter Zach Janowski were hard at work this weekend advocating for Yankee's research in the media and across the state. On Sunday, Zach…
[caption id="attachment_1968" align="alignright" width="394"] Yankee Institute Chairman Rob Simmons with the Cato Institute's Jason Bedrick on July 31, 2013 (Credit: Heath Fahle)[/caption] The Yankee Institute honored the legacy of Dr. Milton Friedman on Wednesday, July…
There are several independent films that depict the benefits of school choice. Be sure to check out the trailers for the following movies: Waiting for Superman shadows several students across the country hoping to attend…
Connecticut ranks 7th in the country in graduation rates – with 77% of its students graduating. Raising Hale’s Zachary Janowski discovered that the average cost of a public school diploma in CT (cumulative spending for…
School choice options vary from state to state, with some providing several options to families, while others are more restrictive. Some states, for example, do not have legislation that allows cyber schools or tax credits.…
This is National School Choice Week, celebrating the options that many parents across the country have for the education of their children. School choice can refer to public charter schools, public virtual schools, school vouchers,…
HARTFORD - Following up their 2009 piece "How to Reduce Property Taxes with a Citizens Audit Committee", Dr. Lewis Andrews and Dr. Armand A. Fusco have published a compendium of model school board policies from…
HARTFORD – More than a thousand state employees are paid more than Gov. M. Jodi Rell, according to data now available to the public at www.CTsunlight.org, and a dozen earn an annual salary of more…