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New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’

The Violent History of White Supremacy Is Rarely Taught in Schools. It Should Be

Fairfield Schools Restrict Inauguration Viewing in Real Time Over Potential Threats

SAT Discontinues Subject Tests And Optional Essay

Quality Counts 2021: Educational Opportunities and Performance in Connecticut

Wallingford Student Wins Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Challenge

State Says Fewer Hartford Students In Integrated Schools

Miguel Cardona’s Ideas About Education Were Forged in Meriden, CT. Now He Will Bring Them to Washington, D.C.

Simsbury Free Library Presented With Student-Created MLK memorial

Final Plans Approved for Mansfield School

Biden Picks San Diego Superintendent for Deputy Education Secretary

Cardona’s Role in Connecticut’s Complex School Desegregation Efforts Becomes Focus: Will He Give Integration a National Platform as Ed Secretary?

Superintendent Seeks $128M Budget — Up 5% — For Westport Schools

Proposed Stonington School Budget Shows 8.9% Increase

Gov. Ned Lamont Will Push for Broadband Expansion to Boost Education, Economic Development

Trump’s Second Impeachment: A Guide for Teachers

What Biden’s Pick for Ed. Secretary Discussed With Disability Rights Advocates

PTSA President: Years of Underfunding Trumbull Schools Caused Financial Woes

New Canaan: Proposed $96M School Budget Covers Later Start Times

Superintendents Association Calls on State to Increase Funding for CT Schools

Rivera Reelected New Haven Ed Board Prez

State Launches Database Showing FAFSA Financial Aid Form Completion Rate

Education Committee Agenda Includes Increasing Connecticut’s Teacher Diversity, Combating Inequality, Building Students’ Social and Emotional Skills

Waterbury School District to Hire Counselors for Elementary Schools

Eastern CT School Districts Look to Diversify Teaching Workforce

U.S. Supreme Court to Weigh Whether Schools May Discipline Students for Internet Speech

‘80-Page Document of Nightmares’: School Financial Audit Stuns Trumbull Officials

For CT Teachers, Washington Riot Becomes a Teaching Tool

Trump’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Submits Resignation

Patty Murray Set to Lead Senate Education Committee After Democratic Wins in Georgia

Talking to High School Students About What Happened at the U.S. Capitol

Caring for Students in the Wake of a Traumatic News Event

Insurgency at the U.S. Capitol: A Dreaded, Real-Life Lesson Facing Teachers

New Haven Alders Approve Software to Improve Recruitment of Black Teachers

UConn Joins Program to Offer Free Online Classes to Students From Disadvantaged High Schools

Big Picture: How the Latest COVID-19 Aid for Education Breaks Down, in Two Charts

In Farewell, DeVos Urges Congress to Reject Biden’s Policies

Billions in School Construction in CT Hasn’t Made a Dent in Segregation — but This Year, Things Could Be Different

Shelton School Board Wants Transportation Savings Used for Education

New Haven Committee: Reform, Don’t Abolish SROs

New York Banned Facial Recognition in Schools. Will Other States Follow?

Racial Justice Group in New Britain Stages Rally to Demand Better Funding for Education

Goodbye, Adobe Flash: What Educators Need to Know

Education Dept. Gets $73.5 Billion in Funding Deal That Ends Ban on Federal Aid for Busing

As Biden Eyes Cardona for Education Secretary, Focus Is on How He Handled School Reopening

Norwich to Join Effort to Recruit, Train and Hire Minority Teachers

New HVAC System for Greenwich’s Cos Cob School Clears Another Hurdle

Greenwich School Board OKs Spending Plan After Much Debate

Citizens’ Petition Opposes a Cell Tower Near Monroe Schools

Could CT’s Top Educator Become US Secretary of Education? Local Officials Sure Hope So.

Clergy to Lamont: Earn Our Support by Tackling School Segregation

Supreme Court Rejects Religious School’s Challenge to Kentucky Virus Order

How Google Classroom Is Changing Teaching: Q&A With Researcher Carlo Perrotta

Connecticut’s Miguel Cardona in the Mix for Biden’s Education Secretary

Simsbury Foresees School Enrollment Turnaround: New Apartments Are Bringing More Families, Bucking Statewide Trend

An Exit Interview With Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

East Hampton Residents OK $1.1M Project to Rehab High School Athletic Fields

Teachers in High-Poverty Schools Penalized Unfairly on Observations, Study Says

Report Finds New AP Computer Science Course Is Diversifying the Field

How Betsy DeVos Bent the Nation’s Education Debate in Four Tense Years

Report: Out-of-Town Students Cost Norwich Schools Millions

Researchers Balk at Trump’s Last-Minute Picks for Ed. Science Board

High Court Declines Challenge to District Policy Protecting Transgender Students

Full U.S. Appeals Court Lets Federal Right-To-Education Case Go Forward

Lebanon School Chief To Take Position In Killingly

New Haven Finds Benefit in Dedicated Grant Writer Posision

Governor Lamont Announces FAFSA Completion Challenge for Connecticut School Districts

Hispanic Organizations Endorse NEA’s Lily Eskelsen Garcia For Education Secretary

Legislators Say Property Tax Reform Would Fix School Funding Inequities

The Positively Worst And Best Education News Of 2020 — As Viewed By A Teacher

New Milford School Board Appoints Interim Assistant Superintendent

Child Advocacy Group Calls for Major Tax Shift to Close ‘Highly Unjust’ Income, Wealth Gaps

Pastors From Across Connecticut Ask Lawmakers to Boost Funding for Black, Latino and Low-Income Students

‘It Just Smells Bad:’ Bridgeport Schools IT Restructuring Leads to Accusation of Union-Busting

Search Beings for New Stratford Schools Superintendent

Bridgeport School Board Votes to Keep Its Officers

Principals Seek More Counselors, Librarians

Farmington High School Becomes the Latest Connecticut School to Retire Its Indian Mascot

Greenwich High Students Confront Stereotypes During Diversity Talk

‘We Want to Rebrand’: New Haven Principal Adding Robotics to Add Students

Waterbury School Board Considering Policy to Continue to Supply Computers to All Students Beyond the Pandemic

Waterbury School Students Will Learn Virtually on Snow Days

In Greenwich Schools, an Anomaly When It Comes to English Learners

Bridgeport Seeks $3.2M in Tuition From 4 Other Districts for Magnet School Students

Long-Awaited Stratford School District Audit ‘Moving Along’

Final Arguments Filed in Dispute Over Stamford School Board Election

Milford Schools Adding Bulletproof Glass to All Schools

Killingly Leans Into Larger School Renovation Project With Higher State Reimbursement

Stamford Board of Education Names New President

CT Board of Education Approves New Course in Black and Latino Studies

After GHS ‘Indian’ Moniker Removed, Students Choose New Mascot

Schools Could See U-Turn on Civil Rights Under Biden

COVID-19 and Cybersecurity: ‘Catastrophic Attack on Our Technology Systems’

East Hartford Superintendent Proposes $2.7M Increase in School Budget

‘We Can Save a Lot of Lives’: Danbury Brothers Invent Device Using AI Technology

Greenwich School Board Considers Another Science Classroom for Julian Curtiss

Greenwich High Students Raise $20,000 for Thanksgiving Meals

Bullying, Safe School-Climate Policies Revamped in Stafford

Cheshire Teacher Named Assistant Principal of Naugatuck Middle School

New Haven Ed Board Prez Grilled, Wins Reappoint Vote

Disinformation Is Rampant. Here’s How Teachers Are Combatting It

Forum Call: Boot Cops From New Haven Schools

Bridgeport School Board Choice Promises ‘Hard Work, Good Effort, Sound Judgment’

Groton’s Next Superintendent Has a Familiar Face

Tribal Leaders Back Bill on Teaching Native American History

Winchester Board of Education, Gilbert School Battle Over Contract

City Parent, New York Attorney Picked as New Bridgeport School Board Member

No More Snow Days, Thanks to Remote Learning? Not Everyone Agrees

Community Rallies Behind Valley Regional-Old Lyme Football Coach Who’s Being Asked to Resign

Are Snow Days a Thing of the Past? New Fairfield the Latest to Distance Learn in Bad Weather

E.O. Smith Teacher Going for Grammy Gold

Southington Fifth Grader Chosen as Next Kid Governor: ‘If You Give Me an Opportunity to Help Others, I’m Totally in for It’

NFA Officials Strengthen Stance For Independent Governance

Osten Behind Bill Calling For Teaching Of Native American History In Public Schools

Greenwich Teachers Lead Discussion On Women’s Suffragehttps://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Greenwich-teachers-lead-discussion-on-women-s-15736882.php

Connecticut’s Halfhearted Battle: Response to Lead Poisoning Epidemic Lacks Urgency

Somers Music Teacher Who Performs as ‘Mr. Lobster’ Named Teacher of the Year

West Hartford Board of Education Votes on Snow Day Policy for Academic Year

Major Tensions Flare Over Education Secretary Before Joe Biden Even Picks One

Why 3rd Grade Matters

‘One of Your Own in the White House’: A History of Teacher First Ladies and Presidents

Mansfield School Board Eyes Changing Name of Columbus Day

New London Schools Stalled on Negotiations for Police in Schools

Danbury Tutors Sue City to Be Eligible for Pensions

Stamford Schools Struggle to Hire Minority Teachers, but Numbers Improving

Ellington Students Will Still Enjoy Snow Days

As Election 2020 Grinds On, Young Voters Stay Hooked

Assistant Superintendent: New Trumbull High Diversity Class Helps ‘Shape the Conversation’

Schools Voice Reluctance to Repurposing Snow Days for Remote Learning

Biden’s Education Department Will Move Fast to Reverse Betsy DeVos’s Policies

How Biden Could Steer Education Spending Without Waiting on Congress

What School Superintendents Want From the Biden Administration

How Will Schools Pay for Compensatory Services for Special Ed. Students?

‘Someone Who Understands:’ Teachers Want Next Secretary of Education to Be an Educator

How a GOP-Controlled Senate Could Affect Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

What Teachers Should Do When QAnon Conspiracy Theories Come to Class

BOE Chairwoman: Shelton Assistant Superintendent ‘Knocked It Out of the Park’ for Top Spot

Niantic Center School Is Gone Fishing With New Art Project

New Torrington High School ‘One of the Best Things That’s Happened’

Election Uncertainty and Anxious Students: Inside 4 Social Studies Classrooms

Stamford Board of Education Election Could End in Legal Challenges

K-12 Election Watch: 7 Big Questions for Schools and Education