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May 18, 2012
Fairfield County Business Journal

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.

May 8, 2012
Wall Street Journal

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.

May 8, 2012
Hartford Courant

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.

May 8, 2012
CT News Junkie

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.

May 7, 2012
The Hanging Shad

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..

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Posted May 17, 2012 at 11:11am

It can be hard to get answers to basic questions about Connecticut public education. How many students are there? How are they performing? How do we pay for their education?

That’s why ConnCAN developed the Field Guide to Education in Connecticut. You can read it cover to cover, or skip around to answer specific questions.

Click here to see the Field Guide to Education in Connecticut!

Posted February 9, 2011 at 4:13pm

The State Board of Education failed today to capitalize on the hard work of a broad range of education leaders by once again postponing a vote to fix our school funding system. Today's inaction indefinitely tabled consideration of design principles for a new school finance system. This comes after nine months of intense and thoughtful deliberation by a committee that the State Board appointed for just this purpose, and which agreed by majority that these design principles represent the best way to fix our broken funding system and meet the educational needs of our kids.

Posted January 26, 2011 at 11:35am

We saw a major development here in Connecticut on Monday. The Ad Hoc Committee to Study Education Cost Sharing and Choice Funding, a group that was convened nearly a year ago to investigate how Connecticut could do a better, more consistent job of funding all of its public school students, agreed to a set of design principles for a new student-based funding system. This is truly momentous, and is a huge step in the right direction.

Posted November 17, 2010 at 1:55pm

 The budget crisis is nothing new, but it's still making headlines, especially since the federal stimulus funds the state used to plug holes will not be renewed this year. As a result, schools are bracing themselves for even slimmer funding. So the question is, how can we reduce spending while minimizing the impact on our schools?

Posted October 13, 2010 at 3:48pm

 According to a new report by the Education Law Center on fairness in school funding, Connecticut fares relatively well in the Center’s measure of how fairly states fund their public schools. The report looked at factors including how much of state revenue is devoted to education spending and how well poor districts are funded.

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