CT Ed Watch

Connecticut Test Scores Show Stark Gaps Between Schools, New Data Reveals

Greenwich School Board Approves Adding Pre-K Classrooms to Riverside Project, Saving $5M

School Zone Speed Camera Citations Begin in Fairfield

Legislative Changes Prepare for Classrooms for the Next School Year

North Haven School Board Cuts 28 Positions After Budget Referendum Fails

Fairfield Schools Cut 11 Elementary STEAM Teaching Positions in Approving Budget

Newtown School Board Seeks to ‘Minimize’ Classroom Impact After Voters Reduce 2026-27 Budget

Hamden School Board Cuts 38 Full-Time Positions, Middle School Sports in 2026-27 Budget

Hartford Public Schools Face $89M Deficit, District Seeks State Support and Structural Changes

Connecticut’s Getting Hotter, But Some Schools Still Can’t Keep Classrooms Cool

Trumbull Schools Cut $2.9M from 2026-27 Budget Plan, Likely Increasing Some Class Sizes

Vernon Taps Middle School Administrator to be New Principal at Lake Street Elementary

What’s Right with Schools: East Haven Middle Schoolers Learn About Safe Drinking Water

Provision in CT Budget Offers a Deal to Save Insolvent Schools. Some Say It Avoids the Real Issues.

School Funding Commission Includes Teachers, Superintendents, Legislators, and a Mayor

Waterbury Names Three Familiar Educators as New School Principals

Hartford Names Bulkeley Math Teacher, Softball Coach as 2026 Teacher of the Year

See What Westport’s New Long Lots Elementary School Will Look Like

Lamont Noncommittal on Federal Scholarship Tax Credit

Tong Joins Lawsuit Over Student Loan Rules for Professional Degrees

Feds Issue a Slimmed-Down Data Release on U.S. Schools

How Powerful Are Teachers’ Unions? It Depends on the State

Texas School Police Pepper-Sprayed, Tackled and Tasered Students

The Minneapolis Immigration Crackdown Ended Months Ago. For These Little Kids, Trauma Remains

Teachers’ Union Urges Schools to Curb A.I. Chatbots and Screen Time

America’s Tech-Filled Classrooms are Facing a Backlash Against School-Assigned Devices

School Choice Is Creating Two Separate School Systems

White House Blocks $2 Billion for Education: See All the Affected Programs

Immigrant Students Fear Enforcement and Stay Out of School

Overworked and Understaffed: Special Ed Teachers Turn to AI for Help

The Education Department is Hiring — While It’s Being Dismantled

Lawsuit Accuses Massachusetts Schools of Segregating Students of Color in Low-Opportunity Districts

Trump Admin. OK’s Another State’s Ask for School Funding Leeway

Schools Brace for Impact as Fuel Prices Climb

NAEP Civics Tests Could Expand to Offer State-by-State Results

The U.S. Is in a ‘Learning Recession.’ Is NCLB’s End to Blame?

‘Creative’ or ‘Illegal?’ Congress Debates Trump’s Dismantling of Education Dept.

Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’

Kids Are in a ‘Reading Recession,’ as Test Scores Continue to Decline

Democrats Challenge Plan to Dismantle Office for English Learners