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Time to stop whining and make serious education reforms
August 31, 2010
Hartford Courant
By Rick Green
Maybe you saw what New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did last week after he learned about the bungling behind his administration's failure to win $400 million in the federal Race to the Top competition that rewards states that adopt aggressive education reforms.
Christie fired his education commissioner.
Bravo. At least we know what matters to Gov. Christie, a Republican making waves across the country. That's more than I can say for Connecticut, land of timid leadership.
Hwang to receive education award tomorrow at Fairfield U.
August 30, 2010
Trumbull Times
By Donald Eng
Conn. learns why it lost out on fed funds
August 28, 2010
New Haven Register
By Abbe Smith
In the most recent round of federal Race to the Top awards, Connecticut scored lower than every state it borders.
The state learned last month that it did not make the list of finalists, but didn’t get details about why it missed out on the $175 million it was seeking until final scores and reviewer comments were released this week.
State's teacher evaluation plans too weak, federal reviewers say
August 25, 2010
Connecticut Mirror
By Robert Frahm
The weakness of a plan to link teacher evaluations to student performance was a key factor in Connecticut's failure to qualify for millions of dollars in federal school aid, according to a government report released Wednesday.
The proposed evaluation system lacks detail, won't be ready for years, and fails to include adequate provisions for rewarding successful teachers or removing ineffective ones, said reviewers for the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top school reform competition.
The business of education
August 25, 2010
Connecticut Business News Journal
By Melissa Nicefaro
In every Connecticut city and town, public education is by far the largest budget item. Yet the schools’ stewards don’t always treat those dollars as their own
When terms such as “layoffs,” “closures” and “belt-tightening” are tossed around, the education industry may not be the first that comes to mind. That was true until this year, anyway.
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Why education reform?
Those who insist that we’ll never fix America’s public schools until we fix poverty have it exactly backwards. We will never solve poverty in America until we fix our public schools.
Connecticut is quickly becoming the new South. The only state whose poor students perform worse in math than Connecticut is Alabama. Our state has the largest achievement gap between rich and poor kids in the nation.
We are paying the price for our failing public schools. Connecticut ranks last in the country for job growth. We spend more on prisons than on higher education.
Connecticut, and the entire nation, was built on the promise of universal education for all. Public schools are the cornerstone of our democracy.
Our future is inextricably linked to the education of our children – all of them. Dig in to the issues.
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