Month: June 2017

Bloomfield Teacher of the Year Always Wanted to Help Children

Montville Town Council Passes School, Town Budgets With Reductions to Each

Capital Prep Met State Integration Rule by Picking White Students Outside Lottery

Shelton School Staff Will Shrink Under New Budget Plan

K-12 and the U.S. Supreme Court: Highlights of the 2016-17 Term

Shelton School Gets a New Principal

Chan-Zuckerberg to Push Ambitious New Vision for Personalized Learning

Norwalk Board of Education Approves Cuts

Winsted’s Gilbert School Principal Resigning to Take Job in Massachusetts

New Fairfield Superintendent Will Not Seek Renewal of Contract

Newtown School Start Times Moving

Former Cheshire Superintendent of Schools Elected CAPSS President

A Community School on Steroids Mixes Counseling, Dentistry, and Academics in One Building—and Is Matching its District’s Graduation Rate

Here Are Seven Education Items on Congress’ ‘Honey-Do’ List

United Way of Western Connecticut Provides $635K for Childhood, Education Programs

New Haven Holds “Attendance Matters” Spring Celebration

Stonington Elementary School Classroom Assignments on Hold Due to State Budget Uncertainty

Local Science Teachers Get a Lesson at Jackson Laboratory

Bridgeport Gains One Principal, Loses Another to Central Office Job

Bridgeport Superintendent Creates and Pays for New Scholarship

Study: Black Girls Viewed as ‘Less Innocent’ Than White Girls

GOP Health-Care Bill Could Strip Public Schools of Billions for Special Education

Construction to Begin on $100M Weaver High School Renovation in Hartford

I Am Learning Inglés: A Dual-Language Comic

Foodshare Working to Battle Food Insecurity for Kids on Summer Vacation

As School Gardens Grow, So Do the Students – and Teachers – Who Tend Them

Dozens of Democratic Senators Express Concerns About DeVos and Civil Rights

New Haven High School Students Partner in a Public Art Project Downtown

Trumbull Has Connecticut History Teacher of the Year

How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms

At Canton High Graduation, a Focus on Potential, Learning from Failure

Shelton’s Word of the Week Project to Go Professional

A Hard Look at What Prison Means for the Kids Left Behind

In Visually Literate Classrooms, Words Are Worth a Thousand Pictures

Rocky Hill Graduates Told to Be Kind to Others, Stay True to Themselves

Meriden Schools Receive Honorary Citation

As Gadgets Enter the Classroom, Supplies Go From Old School to High Tech

School Librarians Embrace Technology — If the Budget Allows

Backpack Index: The Cost of School Supplies Nearly Doubled in 10 Years

Inside Connecticut’s Education-Funding Turmoil

Southington School Budget Cuts Middle School Sports

Harnessing Student Emotions in Service of a Cause

Volunteers Spread Word About Summer Lunch Program for Kids in Meriden

School Funding Reform: Three Tough Questions Facing Lawmakers

It Takes a Village: Family Thanks the Community with Graduation Bash

Teachers’ Cues Shape Students’ Sense of Belonging

Teachers’ Organization Calls for State to Examine School Funding

Milford School Board Approves $382K In Budget Cuts

CREC Greater Hartford Academy Grads Urged to Think and Create  

Holocaust Survivor to Receive Honorary Diploma at Avon High School Graduation

Madison High School Seniors Excel at ‘Lending-A-Hand’

South Windsor High Grads Cross State Lines, but Express Hometown Pride

State Budget Impasse Endangers Teen Jobs Program

Cheney Tech Graduates Told to ‘Get The Job Done’  

At Hartford’s Law and Government Academy, Graduation Marked by Resilience

Education Dept. Closes Transgender Student Cases as it Pushes to Scale Back Civil Rights Investigations

New Haven Students Start Summer Reading Season with a Splash

School Hosts Private Graduation for Bullied Student

Schoolyard Habitats Are Urban Oases and Outdoor Classrooms for New Haven Kids

What Will Trump’s FCC Mean for America’s Schools?

Connecticut Kids Can Get FREE Summer Meals

Judge: Magnet Schools Cannot Be Made More Segregated

Connecticut Bill Would Force Fee Disclosures for Teacher Retirement Plans

Civil Rights Commission Launches Investigation Into Ed. Dept., Other Agencies

New Haven Magnet School Strikes Agreement With China

Four Valedictorians in One Class

Lyman Hall High School in Wallingford Graduates Its 100th Class

Education Dept. Says It Will Scale Back Civil Rights Investigations

New Haven Education Stakeholders Try ‘Village Restoration’

Norwich Technical School Grads Hungry for Success

Waterbury Students, Officers Have Friendly Game of Basketball

The End of the Valedictorian? Schools Rethink Class Rankings

In Sheff Case, State Presses Point That Changing Integration Standard Will Aid Hartford Students

The Aftermath: Developments From The 2017 Regular Session of The Connecticut General Assembly Affecting Schools

Torrington High School Students Create Care Closet to Help Students in Need

Naugatuck Public Schools Receive High Marks From Parents, Guardians

Can Yoga Help Prevent Teacher Burnout?

Sheff Plaintiffs to Judge: Stop State From Weakening School Desegregation

Bridgeport School Committee Focuses on Helping Male Black and Latino Students

Colorado Leaving National Testing Consortium, Forging Own Path

Trump Makes a Big Push for High School Apprenticeships

Windsor High Graduates Told ‘Do Not Fear the Future’

New Milford Cuts Four Teaching Positions

New Haven School Board Sets Sights on Puerto Rico

Outdoor Classrooms Planned in Plainville

Transgender Teachers Talk About Their Experiences at School

Student Films Featured at 4th Annual Quiet Corner Film Festival

Want to Trash a New Haven Board of Ed. Member? Line Up

Will Online Tools Make Texas Instruments’ Graphing Calculators Obsolete?

Education Commissioner Wentzell: ‘Our English Learners Need More Support’

Report: Connecticut Tops for Kids

Bridgeport’s Bassick High Gets Ninth Principal Since 2010

Betsy DeVos Warns Charter Schools Against Becoming ‘The Man’

Devices and Software Flooding Into Classrooms: More Access Hasn’t Meant Better Use

Teen Sex-Ed Resources For, Oh, Oh, Those Summer Nights

Poor Students Face Digital Divide in How Teachers Learn to Use Tech

Student Mobility Takes an Academic Toll. But Why?

West Haven’s Carrigan School Partnering With UNH for Health, Fitness Program

For-Profit Charter Schools Show Poor Academic Growth

In Greenwich, and Elsewhere, Teacher Demographics Don’t Match Students

Newtown Families Angry With Megyn Kelly, NBC Over Sandy Hook Denier, Conspiracy Theorist

Greenwich Rep for CT Teacher of the Year Announced

Danbury Principal Retires After 38 Years as Educator

Sheff Plaintiffs to Urge Judge to Extend Desegregation Plan

English Learners: Other Places Are Showing What Works

Fair Haven School Unveils Schoolyard Habitat

To Understand Betsy DeVos’s Educational Views, View Her Education

How to Apply the Brain Science of Resilience to the Classroom

Alabama’s Assessment Request Could Be a Test Case for DeVos and Local Control

Veteran School Choice Champion Is Top Pick for Key Policy Job at Ed. Dept.

UConn Medical Students Bicycle Cross-Country to Raise Awareness and Money for Nutritional Education

Senators Hammer at DeVos on Planned Budget Cuts, Proposed Vouchers

For New Haven Students, a Trip to Nicaraguan Sister City Leon Brings New Perspective

Students, Teachers Lauded by Seymour Board of Education

‘All but Impossible’: Republican Senator Says Trump’s Education Cuts Would Go Too Far

Montville School Board Will Take up Bus Issue, Again, on Monday

DeVos Stays On Message About East Hartford’s ‘Michael’ And Failing Schools

Feeding Young Minds: The Importance of School Lunches

Asked About Discrimination, Betsy DeVos Said This 14 Times

Teacher of the Year Selected in Enfield

More Testing Is Forecast for Nation’s ELL Students

Students Criticize Trump Plan to Slash College Aid

Google to Teach School Kids About Online Safety, Etiquette

State Recognizes Westhill Educators for Teaching Politics in Curriculum

Torrington School Lunches to Increase by 25 Cents

West Hartford Student Among Winners of Energize Connecticut‘eesmarts’ Contest

Windsor Educator Of The Year A Guiding Force At Windsor High

New Haven’s Hillhouse High Attempts a Rebrand

“Voice Of East Hartford High School” Named District’s Teacher Of The Year

Vouchers Fail to Improve Student Test Scores

U.S. Education Department Launches New Special Education Site

East Lyme Middle Schoolers’ Film to Be Shown at Festival

Climate Change Is Tough to Teach, So Aquariums and Zoos Are Stepping In

In Race for Test-Takers, ACT Outscores SAT—for Now

Ridgefield Board to Decide on Later Start Times in October

New Haven Begins Search for Next Schools Superintendent

How Education-Funding Formulas Target Poor Kids

How Much Foreign Language Is Being Taught in U.S. Schools?

Increasing Salaries So Teachers Don’t Have to Become Principals

New Haven Alders Examine School Funding

Stamford & Norwalk Students Celebrated in Maritime Aquarium TeMPEST Program

Ganim Defends His Record on Schools

Males of Color Forum Set in Bridgeport

Looser High School Graduation Requirements Head to Malloy