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With new federal data showing continued, middle-of-the-pack performance by Connecticut schools, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy found the middle ground among competing interests for a landmark education law.
For once, teachers were not front and center in the debate.
HARTFORD—In a sweeping education deal with lawmakers and teacher unions here, Gov. Dannel Malloy gave ground on some of his farthest-reaching proposals but contended the compromise was still a historic overhaul of public-school policy in a state that has proved resistant to change.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Monday night that his administration and lawmakers had reached an agreement on "meaningful education reform" — an agreement that he said adds nearly $100 million in new education spending and will help the state regain its competitive edge.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Democratic legislative leaders celebrated what they called an “historic” agreement on a sweeping education reform proposal that believe will help Connecticut erase its largest-in-the-nation achievement gap.
At a 10 p.m. press conference, Malloy told a packed room of reformers and leaders of at least one of the state’s teacher unions that the bill the Senate is expected to take up later this evening is just a beginning.
Say this for Gov. Dannel Malloy, love his policies or hate them, he has largely gotten what he wants in his first year and a half in office. He pushed through the largest tax increase in state history after inheriting a $3 billion-plus disaster of a state budget; he was able to wring desperately needed concessions out of the state employee unions (after first failing); he instituted the “First Five” job-creation program; and won hard-fought approval for the Jackson Labs economic development project..
Today the 2011 NAEP (commonly known as the Nation’s Report Card)* eighth grade science results show that Connecticut students’ performance overall continues to stagnate, and achievement gaps are large and growing.
There’s a nine-year-old girl walking into school today that is six times less likely to graduate from high school than many of her classmates. How do we know? It’s because she’s not reading on grade level; in fact, like almost 9,000 of Connecticut’s low-income children, she’s reading as much as three grade levels behind her more affluent peers.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the only way we can compare students across all states. The results came out today, and the news is that Connecticut's achievement gap is still the largest in the nation on average - and most of the gaps measured on racial, economic, and language lines in Connecticut are growing.
Read our press release and analysis here.
Connecticut's worst-in-the-nation achievement gap hasn't gone anywhere, according to the newly released "National Assessment of Educational Progress" (NAEP) results for the state's twelfth graders. Connecticut was one of 11 states in the U.S. Department of Education's pilot project to report the math and reading scores of high school seniors at the state level.