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January 18, 2012
New Haven Register

 Connecticut lost ground in the annual ranking of state laws that govern charter schools, mainly because other states such as Maine and New Mexico passed more progressive reforms in the past year.

January 15, 2012
Hartford Courant

 When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy put education reform on the front burner for 2012, he caught a wave of public sentiment that has been building for a couple of years in every corner of the state. Everybody from superintendents and the state's largest teachers union to business leaders, advocacy groups, parents and political leaders wants to improve the state's public schools.

January 15, 2012
CT Now / Fox 61

"Major education reforms for Connecticut are planned for this year, and I'm here with Michael Sharpe, Director of Jamoke Academy, one of the fastest rising charter schools in Connecticut, in Hartford, [and] Patrick Riccards, the new CEO/President of ConnCAN..."

January 8, 2012
CT News Junkie

By Patrick Riccards, CEO, ConnCAN

Last week, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy made a passionate case for why we all must commit to education reform in 2012. Speaking at his education reform summit, the governor made clear that school improvement is a team effort, requiring the involvement of all stakeholders.

January 4, 2012
Connecticut Post

About the only top slot the constitution state still clings to is "largest achievement gap in the nation."

So educational reform advocates say much is riding on Malloy's pledge that 2012 will be the year of education reform.

Malloy is hosting an Education Workshop Thursday at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. Many invited are convinced the policies that begin to take shape there may lead to legislation that can transform the state's failing schools and ultimately assist in growing the economy.

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August 23, 2010
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 By Liam Julian 

Alex Johnston, the CEO of ConnCAN (I yearn for someone in Topeka to found KanCAN—or, better yet, someone in Montparnasse to start CancanCAN), writes that he is waiting for the coming of “the Omnivore’s Dilemma of education—a book that would clearly communicate the urgency of reforming our education system and make that urgency tangible and actionable for laypeople, even (or especially) those who might not have realized they were interested in education before.” He will be waiting for a while. Why? Because whereas The Omnivore’s Dilemma illuminated much about food production that readers did not know, just about everyone does know that public schools are frequently foul; shelves upon shelves of books proclaim and explain this. And more such books are published all the time.

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