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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 July 13, 2010 at 9:33am
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 Michael Winerip of the New York Times just concluded his column, "Generation B," to start a new one, "On Education," which will appear on Mondays. His first article is about Teach For America. 

Here at ConnCAN, we like to follow what people in Connecticut and around the country are saying about public education, and finding out about Winerip's new column inspired us to post a reading list of some of the blogs and columns we follow. This list is by no means exhaustive, but it's a good starting point if you're looking for some ed reform reading (other than the ConnCAN blog, of course). If you think there's another blog or column ed reformers should know about, please let us know by commenting on this post!

 

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Comments

July 14, 2010 - 9:46am
clairelise Said:

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm sure people will find them useful. It's true that there's so much material to wade through...

July 13, 2010 - 11:53am
Anonymous Said:

Perhaps Jim Geri @ http://specialeducationlawblog.blogspot.com
and Charles Fox @ http://specialedlaw.blogs.com are of interest to many to keep up to speed on legislative changes which are raidly evolving in this new medium.

Am excellent subject to explore. There is alot of information out there. How do we, cut to the chase?

July 13, 2010 - 11:06am
Anonymous Said:

Thanks so much for the mention! With a 3 year old and a 6 month old - plus work responsibilities - wish we had a chance to blog more often.

Liam (AKA one of the Education Optimists)

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