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New panel tackles gap in learning
March 9, 2010
New Haven Register
By Elizabeth Benton
Gov. M. Jodi Rell has formed a new commission aimed at closing the achievement gap between minority and low-income students and their white and higher-income peers.
The 11-member commission draws heavily from the business and philanthropic fields, and is led by Greenwich businessman and children’s book author Steven J. Simmons.
School's shake-up is embraced by the President
March 6, 2010
New York Times
By Steven Greenhouse and Sam Dillon
A Rhode Island school board’s decision to fire the entire faculty of a poorly performing school, and President Obama’s endorsement of the action, has stirred a storm of reaction nationwide, with teachers condemning it as an insult and conservatives hailing it as a watershed moment of school accountability.
Three Bridgeport schools recognized as 'success stories'
March 6, 2010
Bridgeport News
Three of Bridgeport public schools — Hall School, High Horizons Magnet School and Multicultural Magnet School — have been selected as 2010 ConnCAN “Success Story” schools.
ConnCan is the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, a statewide education reform advocacy organization.
Each year, ConnCAN recognizes schools around the state that are leading the way in raising student achievement and helping to close Connecticut’s achievement gap.
Starting the race over
March 5, 2010
Connecticut Mirror
By Robert Frahm
Hoping for a second chance at millions of dollars in federal stimulus money for school reform, state lawmakers enlisted the help Thursday of education groups whose views are often at odds.
Connecticut starting over in school funding Race to the Top
March 5, 2010
Hartford Courant
By Grace Merritt
An unlikely group of bedfellows, including teachers union leaders, legislators and charter school advocates, said Thursday that they'll work together in the next few months to improve Connecticut's chances to succeed in the second round of funding under the federal Race to the Top grant competition.
The announcement, made at the Legislative Office Building, came just two hours after the Obama administration said it had rejected the state's application for $192 million in the competition for federal school-reform stimulus money.
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