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Committee to examine education funding

February 4, 2010
New Haven Register

By Elizabeth Benton

The state Board of Education will convene a new committee this year to examine a comprehensive overhaul of state education funding, including money for magnet, charter and traditional public schools.

Education outsider gradually gaining allies

February 1, 2010
Connecticut Mirror

By Robert Frahm 

In public education circles in Connecticut, Alex Johnston has not always been a welcome guest.

As head of the New Haven-based school reform group Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), Johnston often rankled the public school establishment with his blunt criticism of schools he believes are failing to educate the state's poorest children.

Panel Weighs Changes To Charter Funding

January 28, 2010
New Haven Register

 By Elizabeth Benton

A state Board of Education committee met Wednesday to review proposed changes to charter school funding, including a model long backed by charter advocates that would transfer state money from local districts to charters, based on student enrollment.

Advocate says charter school changes needed

January 28, 2010
Connecticut Mirror

By Robert Frahm

Connecticut's restrictions on charter schools could jeopardize its chances of winning millions in federal stimulus money, an outspoken school reform advocate told state officials Wednesday.

Unless the state removes barriers to the growth of charters, "we are not going to be competitive" in the federal school reform competition known as Race to the Top, Alex Johnston said after meeting with members of a State Board of Education committee.

Charters, Unions Clash Over State Money

January 27, 2010
New Haven Independent

 By Melissa Bailey

Charter school advocates – including a member of the city’s Board of Ed – clashed with union reps Wednesday over a plan that would take $27 million from the New Haven public schools and give it to charter schools.

The action took place before the state Board of Education’s Legislation and Bylaws Committee, which convened Wednesday morning to consider a charter school funding proposal by the education watchdog group ConnCAN.

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A vision for Connecticut.

Tomorrow’s Connecticut is a state where no matter how humble your background, you receive an excellent public education. It’s a safe state, where prison sentences give way to college degrees. It’s a state whose students graduate with the skills to compete globally, propelling our economy to new heights.
 
Today’s Connecticut is a state where the children most dependent on our public schools all too often get the least effective education. It’s a state with the largest achievement gap in the country, where our students’ math skills are on par with the developing world. It’s a punitive state, where we spend more on jails than higher education. It’s a state whose economic future is in peril.
 
What stands between today and tomorrow’s Connecticut? It’s you.
 
The Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now is building a new movement of concerned citizens advocating to fundamentally reform our public schools through smart public policies.
 
We will not rest until every Connecticut child, regardless of race or class, has access to a great public school.