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February 6, 2012
Wall Street Journal

 Connecticut would pump more money into charter schools and increase their numbers under a legislative proposal Gov. Dannel Malloy plans to unveil Monday.

February 5, 2012
Hartford Business Journal Online

 Thanks to its strong educational system and manufacturing industry, Connecticut will pace America’s high tech-sector for the next generation.

January 25, 2012
Hartford Courant

 After about two years of wrangling, a group representing teachers, school administrators and school boards agreed Wednesday on a new way to evaluate teachers that places a strong emphasis on student achievement.

Members of the state Performance Evaluation Advisory Council said the breakthrough in their discussions on the contentious issue occurred in the past few months under the leadership of Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor.

January 25, 2012
Connecticut Mirror

Years of disagreement have stalled efforts to grade teachers and dismiss those who are ineffective. That all changed Wednesday when a group of educators -- including teachers' unions, superintendent and school board groups -- agreed on how to properly evaluate teachers so those who are struggling are identified and put on a path to improve or be dismissed.

 

January 24, 2012
Associated Press

 Connecticut's policies to improve the quality of teaching in its public schools are mediocre at best, and particularly fall short in efforts to keep the best teachers and remove those who are ineffective, according to a new nationwide assessment of states' regulations. 

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Connecticut's Charter School Law & Race to the Top

February, 2010
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 In recent years, public charter schools in Connecticut and around the United States have proven that students living in poverty are capable of high achievement. Now the Obama administration has made the quality of a state’s charter school law a key criterion to win the $4 billion at stake in the federal Race to the Top grant competition.

What does a good charter law look like, both across the country and in Connecticut? This issue brief explains what our charter policies look like now and what needs to change.

To bring more great schools to Connecticut and address our most pressing social problem, our state needs to get its charter policies right. Find out more at www.conncan.org

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