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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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GUEST BLOGGER: Ed U. Cation, A New Candidate for Governor

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Hello, Connecticut! My name is Ed U. Cation, and I am writing to announce my candidacy for governor of Connecticut.

As a proud Nutmegger, I take pride in the fact that Connecticut once had the leading school system in the country, which made the state a great place to live, work, raise a family and start a business. But in the last 20 years we’ve grown complacent about our public schools, sitting on the sidelines while other states raced ahead with bold education reforms. As a result, a lot of not-so-great-things have happened to this great state: manufacturers started moving out and new businesses stopped moving in, job growth slid to last in the country, juvenile crime rates in our cities jumped, and the gap between Connecticut’s haves and have-nots reached record levels.

Rather than encouraging excellence, our current system perpetuates the status quo and our worst-in-the-nation achievement gap. As a result, more and more of our students are learning less and less each year.

I won’t stand for it any longer.

Our kids deserve better. Our schools deserve better. Our state deserves better – and that’s why I’m running to become Connecticut’s next governor.

My campaign is about putting education back where it belongs: at the top of the agenda. You can learn more about my campaign through my website at www.votefored.org, visiting me on Facebook, and by checking back here on ConnCAN’s blog, where I will be a guest blogger between now and election day on November 2. I need your vote if we are going to fix Connecticut’s failing public schools. Vote for Ed!

 

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