Month: March 2019

Critics Worry New Haven Schools Sacrifice Counselors for Security Guards

Bristol’s Emergency First Responders Teach Students How to Prepare for Disasters

New Haven Parents Demand Recess for Students, not Punishment

Cinderella Project Recycles Prom Gowns to Aid Stamford students

Student Winners in the Spotlight at Greenwich Youth Film Festival

New Haven Groups Help Students Get to LGBTQ Conference

ECSU Students Pack Snacks for Windham Elementary-Schoolers

Prom Fashion on Display at Stamford High

New Lebanon Finds a Way to Shut Off the Gym Lights at Night

Ralph Mayo to Lead Greenwich High School

White House Hopeful Klobuchar’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Targets Schools

Trump Says He Is Rescinding His Proposed Cut to Special Olympics Budget Amid a Bipartisan Outcry

New London Teacher Honored With State Award for Teaching Excellence

Bridgeport School Board Draws Crowd to Recognition Ceremony

Torrington Must Take Corrective Action at 2 Alternative Education Programs

Bridgeport Gives Stipend to Administrator Doing Two Jobs

Glastonbury School Board Working on $459,000 in Reductions to its $109 Million Budget

Hamden Ed Board OKs $48.6 Million for School Renovations

Feds Spent Hundreds of Millions on Charters That Shut Down or Never Opened, Report Says

The Cult of Homework

Gov. Lamont Does Some Teacher Recruitment in Bridgeport’s Harding High

DeLauro Slams Proposed Funding Increase for Charter Schools

Griswold Schools Will Arm Security Guard Next Year

Proposed Bill Would Require School Districts to Do More for Deaf Students

After Grilling, New Haven Ed Board Nominee Advances

Pomperaug High School Students Win Awards at CT Drama Association Festival

Salaries, Special Ed, Buses Drive Stamford School Budget Hike

Norwalk School Projects Underfunded, Short on Time

New Milford Schools to Pay up to $100,000 Extra on Oil Tank

Windham Seeks Answers From School Board on Health Care Funds

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Blasted for Proposing Cuts to the Special Olympics

After Suicides of Parkland Survivors, Here’s What Educators Should Know About Supporting Students

‘Action Civics’ Enlists Students in Hands-On Democracy

The Best Defense Against Cyberattacks, From a District CTO

Are Teacher Shortages Worse Than We Thought?

Three Things to Watch for When DeVos Defends Trump’s Budget to Congress

Kamala Harris Promises Teachers a Raise If Elected President

Greenwich School Board to Deliberate New AVID Theme

Another Empty Seat on Bridgeport BOE

CT Lawmakers Hold Round Table Discussion in New Britain on Keeping Guns out of Classrooms

Redding Student, Her Teacher Among Women to Be Honored for STEM Work

CT Preschool Advocates Press for Better Pay, Family Affordability

Meet the 11-Year-Old Who Wants to Be America’s First Lesbian President

SPEF Hosts Stamford’s Excellence in Education Awards

Bridgeport BOE Chair Cancels Monday Board Meeting in Favor of Monday Showcase

Hamden Scrambles to Meet School Construction Deadlines

Kamala Harris Calls for Federal Investment on Teacher Pay

‘I Felt More Traumatized Than Trained’: Active-Shooter Drills Take Toll on Teachers

Bridgeport School Budget Forums Have Some Calling for a State of Emergency

Norwalk McMahon High School’s New Innovation Lab Draws Praise From Students, Teachers

Response Positive to Armed Guards at Region 10 Schools

An AVID Believer? Western Middle in Greenwich Makes the Case for Magnet Program

Legislative Committee Endorses Bill to Expand Health Coverage to Undocumented Youth

Bristol Board of Ed Asks for a Budget of $119.9 Million

Survey: What School District Tech Leaders Are Saying About Cybersecurity

Lamont Backs Off ‘Forced’ School Consolidation; Needleman Pitches Bill to Allow Easier Cooperation

Meriden Middle School Students Missing School Due to Flu, Other Illnesses

Coming Soon to New Haven Schools: Play

Reconciliation Elusive in Norwalk School Board-NAACP Rift

ArtBeat Show Features Works of West Hartford Students

Yes We Can … Consolidate New Haven Schools?

Few Attend Forum on Windham Schools

Bridgeport School Budget Forums Set

Catching Up on a Federal Rule Involving Bias in Special Education

6 Steps for Districts: Preventing and Cleaning Up Cyberattacks

Rep. Hayes Brings Anti-Gun Message to the Steps of Her Former High School in Waterbury

New School Regionalization Plan Aims to Maintain ‘Home Rule’

Not All Are Pleased With Norwalk School Start Times Process

District 19 Wants to Fix Roof at E.O. Smith

New Wheeler Middle/High School Open for Business

New Haven BOE Member Seated as District Considers Co-Locating Schools

Effort Launched To Revolutionize Early Childhood Ed In New Haven

Middle School Students in Mansfield Part of Youth Climate Strike

Girl Scouts in Greenwich Bond at Diversity Event

Art News Abounds in Greenwich

New Haven Weighs School Change 3.0

Education Bills Being Considered by the CT Legislature

New Haven Students Aim for 2-Language “Seal”

Judge Rules Magnet School Discrimination Case Belongs in Federal Court

Connecticut Students to Dig into Trench Warfare and the State’s Role in World War I During Trip to France

Hartford, New Haven Schools Slow to Respond to FOI Test

When The News Is Scary, What to Say to Kids

Schools Collect Tons of Student Information. Deleting It All Is a Major Challenge

Lawmakers Propose Resolution Against Arming Teachers  

New Haven Has Its Eye on State Bills on Recess, Special Ed, Black History

Bridgeport BOE: Seeking What District Needs to Survive

Scam Uses Vernon’s Athletic Program to Get Donations

Danbury Students Learn About Fire Safety, Firefighting

BoE Approves Windham Schools Budget

Building Teens Into Strong Readers — By Letting Them Teach

What Climate Change Might Mean for Test Scores

School Districts Are Banning Teachers From Using DonorsChoose

New Tech Aims to Help Schools Preserve Text Messages as Public Records

Roton Middle School Students Push Diversity on Norwalk’s Heritage Wall

Connecticut Educators, Counselors Say the College Admissions Scandal Hurts All Students

Norwalk Students Get Ready for STEM Fair

No Quick Fix Seen for Looming New Haven Schools Deficit

East Haven BOE Leader Wants State to Probe Grant ‘Discrepancy’

Schools Grapple With Student Depression as Data Show Problem Worsening

These Students Are Doing PD With Their Teachers. Their Feedback Is Candid

Why Lunch, Exercise, Sleep, and Air Quality Matter at School

Principals Dealing With Hostility and Division in the Age of Trump, Survey Shows

Paul Bunyan Acquitted: Chief Justice Presides Over Bridgeport 5th Graders’ Mock Trial

Greenwich Honors 26 Students Who Teach Lessons in Helping Others

Norwich Free Academy Students Learn the Hazards of Texting While Driving

Music Program Asks Winchester Community to Adopt-an-Instrument

New Haven School Board Dumps Data Consultant

Bill That Reiterates Connecticut’s Religious Exemption to Vaccines Advances

Committee Cuts $915,000 from Meriden School Board’s Budget Request

CT Judge Reads to Students in Wallingford School

CT Withholds Local Measles Vaccination Data

Scientific Success: 4 Greenwich High Students Head to Nationals

Forum in New Britain Talks Education Issues

West Hartford Student Honored For Volunteer Work

The Trump Administration Really Wants to Cut Education Funding. Congress Doesn’t.

Sackler Family Opioid Fortune Backed CT Charter Schools

School Regionalization Bills Sow Confusion, Spread Fear

Bridgeport Seventh-Grader Earns First Place in Connecticut Spelling Bee

Students at Northeast Middle School in Bristol Learn About Engineering

In Hartford, Brooklyn Boy Issues a Challenge for Students in the Knitting Club

Tolland to Replace Crumbling Foundation of Birch Grove Primary School

Cheshire School Board Considers Lowering School Building Fees

The Consequences of Teen Motherhood Can Last for Generations

DeVos Illegally Delayed Special Education Rule, Judge Says

Research Scholars to Air Problems With Using ‘Grit’ at School

Gates Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Asked for Big New Education Ideas. Here’s What They Got.

Textbooks Alone Don’t Boost Test Scores, Study Says

‘More Than Zero!’ Waterbury Teachers Protest Pay Freeze

A Flash Course in Engineering Sparks Excitement in Bridgeport

Weather Station Offers Real-Life Science Lessons at Old Greenwich School

Greenwich High Changes Tactics on Vaping

Parents Told to Tackle Issues Head-on in First Forum After Danbury Teen’s Suicide

West Hartford Middle School Students Making Blankets for Project Linus

Bristol Board of Ed Honors Students in Art and Music

Greenwich Recoups Money Spent on Repairs After School Floods

Mathletes from Greenwich High Win County Title for 10th Year in a Row

Five to Vie for Bridgeport School Board Vacancy

Cromwell Hires Interim Superintendent, May Eliminate Assistant Position

East Lyme Board of Selectmen Unanimously Approves Budget

Westport Staples Principal Announces Resignation

Only 16 States Still Share Common-Core Tests, Survey Finds

What Tests Does Each State Require?

The Stigma of Choosing Trade School Over College

Millennials Are the Most Diverse Generation, But the Teaching Force Hasn’t Caught Up, Analysis Finds

Students Press for Bills Requiring African American, Puerto Rican History to Be Taught in Connecticut High Schools

Parents Press for a Law Requiring More Recess for Elementary School Students

Bristol Teachers Union Joining Drive to Reduce Disruptive Student Behavior

Connecticut Lawmakers Want to Consolidate School Districts to Save Money, but a Lot of Parents Aren’t Having it. Here’s Why.

CT Charter Schools Earn Renewals, Despite Flaws

State Will Allow Ansonia School Funding Deal