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4 Portland HS Students Become Sick After Vaping: Superintendent

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Shutdown: Schools Worry They Won’t Be Able to Feed Kids

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ctedwatch January 23, 2019 News

Student Food Debt on the Rise in Norwalk Schools

ctedwatch January 23, 2019 News

Art From the Heart: Greenwich Students Earn Top Awards

ctedwatch January 23, 2019 News

Teachers Vote Yes on Deal to End Los Angeles Strike

ctedwatch January 23, 2019 News

America’s Teachers Are Furious

ctedwatch January 23, 2019 News

Denver Teachers Vote to Authorize a Strike

ctedwatch January 23, 2019 News

Betsy DeVos’ Chief Lawyer to Leave Education Department

ctedwatch January 23, 2019 News

Education Has an Innovation Problem

ctedwatch January 23, 2019 News

Sheff Advocates Celebrate 30 Years While Asking: Where to From Here?

ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

CT ‘Kid Governor’ Calls for Support of LGBTQ Issues
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ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

New Haven School Suspensions Drop, but Still Unequal

ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

Serious Infrastructure Problems at Ridgefield Schools

ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

Will the City of Bridgeport Pay for a Bigger New Bassick?

ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

Trumbull High Choir Headed to Lincoln Center

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ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

Well Known Former Local Educator to Head Norwich Superintendent Search

ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

Government Shutdown Halts Progress on Fields at Western Middle School

ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

Highland Elementary School in Cheshire Closed Tuesday to Fix Burst Pipes

ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

Coventry School Board Updates Tuition Policy

ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

House Democrats Bringing New Scrutiny to Education Secretary

ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

Is There a Path to Desegregated Schools?

ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

We’re Teaching Consent All Wrong

ctedwatch January 22, 2019 News

ELL, Hispanic Populations Trending Upwards in Norwalk Schools

ctedwatch January 18, 2019 News

Student-Shoving Achievement First Principal Leaves Post

ctedwatch January 18, 2019 News

Bristol Students, Staff Talk Equity and Inclusiveness

ctedwatch January 18, 2019 News

Dalio Takes Holistic Approach to Educational Philanthropy

ctedwatch January 18, 2019 News

Hartford Art School Hosting State Art Show

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ctedwatch January 18, 2019 News

Windham Schools Planning to Recognize Bilingual Grads

ctedwatch January 18, 2019 News

Teach Kids About Climate Change? A Legislative Proposal in Connecticut Would Require It

ctedwatch January 18, 2019 News

Coventry School Spending Comes in With Low Hike

ctedwatch January 18, 2019 News

The Black Achievement Paradox Nobody’s Talking About

ctedwatch January 18, 2019 News

Educators as Ed-Tech Company Brand Ambassadors Raises Ethical, Policy Questions, Report Finds

ctedwatch January 18, 2019 News

Ed. Dept. Pushes to Reduce ‘Inappropriate’ Restraint, Seclusion in Special Education

ctedwatch January 18, 2019 News

Students Say Achievement First Amistad High’s Approach to Discipline Sacrifices their Mental Health

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ctedwatch January 17, 2019 News

In Norwalk, Education Conversation Centers on Whole Student

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ctedwatch January 17, 2019 News

Connecticut Earns a B+ on Chance-for-Success Index, Ranks Fourth in Nation

ctedwatch January 17, 2019 News

Auto Repair Organization Donates $10,000 to Tech Schools

ctedwatch January 17, 2019 News

Amity Middle School Students work with Grammy Winning Songwriter

ctedwatch January 17, 2019 News

New Britain Teaches Students About Staying Safe Online

ctedwatch January 17, 2019 News

Ansonia Schools Unveil New Superintendent

ctedwatch January 17, 2019 News

BOE Budget Request Would Increase Meriden School Spending by $5M

ctedwatch January 17, 2019 News

Preschool Will Cost Parents Under Vernon School Budget

ctedwatch January 17, 2019 News

Milford Schools Superintendent Proposes $95M Budget

ctedwatch January 17, 2019 News

Top New Haven Administrators Set to Retire

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ctedwatch January 16, 2019 News

Bridgeport’s Roosevelt School Closed Tuesday Due to No Heat

ctedwatch January 16, 2019 News

Coventry School Officials Add Option for Three-Hour Delays

ctedwatch January 16, 2019 News

East Hampton Schools Chief Using ‘Sharpest Pencil’ to Keep Budget at $31.4 Million

ctedwatch January 16, 2019 News

Stonington School Budget Shows Small Decrease

ctedwatch January 16, 2019 News

Hayes Assigned to House Education and Labor Committee

ctedwatch January 15, 2019 News

New Haven Near-Dropouts Cross Graduation Gateway

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ctedwatch January 15, 2019 News

LA Teachers Say Personal Connection, Solidarity With Students Drives Them to the Picket Line

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ctedwatch January 15, 2019 News

State Lawmakers Hear From Parents and Vape Shops at Youth E-Cigarette Forum

ctedwatch January 15, 2019 News

Wintergreen Magnet Eyes Move from Hamden to Gateway’s North Haven Campus

ctedwatch January 15, 2019 News

Why US Classrooms Are Starting to Resemble Arcades

ctedwatch January 15, 2019 News

Sedgwick Students Lead Charge on West Hartford Plastic Bag Ban

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ctedwatch January 15, 2019 News

The Gender Achievement Gap Starts Later for Asian-American Students

ctedwatch January 15, 2019 News

Is It Time to Kill Annual Testing?

ctedwatch January 15, 2019 News

The Truth About Bilingualism: It’s Only for Some Students

ctedwatch January 15, 2019 News

These Simple Writing Exercises Helped More Low-Income Students Pass Biology

ctedwatch January 15, 2019 News

Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike Live Updates: Demands for More Pay and More Help

ctedwatch January 14, 2019 News

Audit Puts Ansonia School Board, City Further at Odds

ctedwatch January 14, 2019 News

Greenwich Student Project on Later Start Time Finds the Jury Still Out

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ctedwatch January 14, 2019 News

Coventry Students Test Out New Foods

ctedwatch January 14, 2019 News

Greenwich Board Seeks to Find New Magnet, or Any Magnet, for Western Middle School

ctedwatch January 14, 2019 News

Greenwich Students Take on Conventional Wisdom

ctedwatch January 14, 2019 News

Ridgefield Schools to Request Nearly $100 Million Budget

ctedwatch January 14, 2019 News

Five Years After Common Core, a Mysterious Spike in Failure Rate Among NY high School Students

ctedwatch January 14, 2019 News

R.I. Lawmakers Shamed by Massachusetts’ Test Scores, Vow Action

ctedwatch January 14, 2019 News

As Shutdown Continues, Some Government Workers Turn to Substitute Teaching

ctedwatch January 14, 2019 News

When the Knitting Club Meets, Troubled Hartford Teenagers Learn to Chill

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ctedwatch January 11, 2019 News

Hamden Board of Education Recognizes Teachers, High School Junior as ‘Hamden Heroes’

ctedwatch January 11, 2019 News

Manchester Panel Recommends Renovating Three Elementary Schools; Martin Could Become Preschool

ctedwatch January 11, 2019 News

Norwalk Superintendent Recommends $12.8M Budget Increase for 2019-20 School Year

ctedwatch January 11, 2019 News

Shelton BOE Braces for a Potentially Painful Budget Season

ctedwatch January 11, 2019 News

Special Education Is Broken

ctedwatch January 11, 2019 News

Study: Language Barriers Can Steer Immigrant Students to STEM Courses

ctedwatch January 11, 2019 News

Absenteeism, Teacher Stress, and School Safety: School Climate Factors to Watch in 2019

ctedwatch January 11, 2019 News

Connecticut Schools Facing Substitute Teacher Shortages

ctedwatch January 10, 2019 News

Lamont Gives Bridgeport’s Harding High a Shout-Out as He Takes Office

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ctedwatch January 10, 2019 News

From the Factory Floor to Classroom, Wallingford School Officials Want Retired Workers to Teach

ctedwatch January 10, 2019 News

Bristol’s Deputy Schools Chief Will Be Next Superintendent

ctedwatch January 10, 2019 News

Danbury Schools Eyeing $7.3 Million Budget Increase

ctedwatch January 10, 2019 News

2 Greenwich Students Honored in Regeneron Science Talent Search

ctedwatch January 10, 2019 News

Study Finds Increased School Bullying in Areas That Voted for Trump

ctedwatch January 10, 2019 News

How Bad Data From One District Skewed National Rankings on Chronic Absenteeism

ctedwatch January 10, 2019 News

Profs Tapped to Fix New Haven School-Choice Lottery

ctedwatch January 9, 2019 News

West Hartford’s Hall, Conard Students Team Up for Short Play Festival

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ctedwatch January 9, 2019 News

Architect, City of Bristol, and Students Get to Work on Memorial Boulevard Arts Magnet School

ctedwatch January 9, 2019 News

Foundation for West Hartford Public Schools Increases Grant Limits

ctedwatch January 9, 2019 News

Meriden BOE Expected to Ask for $5M Budget Increase

ctedwatch January 9, 2019 News

Norwich Projected School Budget Deficit Shrinking

ctedwatch January 9, 2019 News

U.S. Education Industry’s Cybersecurity Lags Behind 16 Other Sectors

ctedwatch January 9, 2019 News

A Conversation With U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, an Award-Winning Teacher

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ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

Bridgeport Turns Focus on Student Attendance

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ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

Why it’s Getting Harder to Count Poor Children in the Nation’s Schools

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

Senator Murphy Meets With Agencies Tackling Teen Homelessness in Middletown

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

After 27 Years, Sue Moreau to Retire From Bristol Schools

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

Bridgeport Schools Computer Network Hit by Ransomware Attack

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

New Haven Land Trust Graduates New Crop Of Entrepreneurs

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ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

Stamford High Schools Consider Block Scheduling

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

New Britain Board of Education Seeks a $5M Budget Increase

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

West Haven Board of Education Members Tour High School Construction Site

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

Groton Board of Education Approves Middle School Plans

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

Los Angeles Braces for Major Teachers’ Strike

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

Teachers Elected Amid Wave of Activism Turn to Governing

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

When Do States Have to Release Their ESSA Report Cards?

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

Gates Giving Millions to Train Teachers on ‘High Quality’ Curricula

ctedwatch January 8, 2019 News

New Leaders on Legislature’s Education Committee Say Education Funding, Achievement Gap Likely Topics

ctedwatch January 7, 2019 News

Charter Lobby Still Paying for Influence

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ctedwatch January 7, 2019 News

Bristol Politicians and Education Leaders Talk Special Education Costs

ctedwatch January 7, 2019 News

New Britain Students Give Teacher Fighting Cancer 12 Days of Gifts

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ctedwatch January 7, 2019 News

Killingly Classrooms Left Empty After Plainfield Students Return Home

ctedwatch January 7, 2019 News

Brooklyn Schools Slash $4k in Expenses Monthly by Installing LED Bulbs

ctedwatch January 7, 2019 News

Ledyard Teacher Selected for Agricultural Educator Scholarship

ctedwatch January 7, 2019 News

Brookfield to Explore Changing School Start Times

ctedwatch January 7, 2019 News

Would Some ESSA Magic Help End the Government Shutdown?

ctedwatch January 7, 2019 News

South Windsor Schools Start Program Aimed at Addressing Students’ Mental Health

ctedwatch January 4, 2019 News

Students Return to Greenwich School After Flooding

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ctedwatch January 4, 2019 News

Thousands of Copyrighted Works Will Now Be Freely Available to Teachers

ctedwatch January 4, 2019 News

Trump, Congress, ESSA and More: Six Issues to Watch in 2019

ctedwatch January 4, 2019 News

Wilton Special Education Students to Weigh in on State’s Program

ctedwatch January 3, 2019 News

Plainfield Students Return to What They Know

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ctedwatch January 3, 2019 News

Bristol Invites Parents, Other Residents to Community Talk About Diversity

ctedwatch January 3, 2019 News

After Hours of Debate, New Haven Board of Ed Candidate Clears Hurdle

ctedwatch January 3, 2019 News

New Haven Magnet School Students Produce Top-Notch Newspaper

ctedwatch January 3, 2019 News

Ansonia School Funding Case Sent to Mediation

ctedwatch January 3, 2019 News

School Retention Linked to Violent Crimes in Adulthood in New Study

ctedwatch January 3, 2019 News

Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record

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ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

Segregated Hartford Schools Await Next Governor

ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

Study Finds Charter Schools Discriminate Against Disadvantaged Students

ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

Plainfield Students ‘Coming Back Home’

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ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

Some Newness to Education in 2018

ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

Putnam Board of Ed Asks Legislators for Help With Unfunded Mandates

ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

Shelton Takes on the LEGO Robot World

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ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

Concrete Bollards to Be Installed at Berlin High School

ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

New Haven Hillhouse Students Pen Political Poetry

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ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

Westhill High School in Stamford Tagged With Warning About Maintenance

ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

Fairchild Wheeler Interdistrict Magnet School’s Flaws Called Cosmetic

ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

Region 9 School Board Frustrated by Lack of Info After Bullet Discovery

ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

How Harry Potter Has Brought Magic to Classrooms for More Than 20 Years

ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

The Teacher Strikes and Protests Planned for 2019

ctedwatch January 2, 2019 News

New Haven Asks Lamont to Raise $ for Bilingual Ed

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ctedwatch December 20, 2018 News

Future in Flux, Hamden Interdistrict Magnet School Keeps Evolving

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ctedwatch December 20, 2018 News

Wilton Schools Address Growing Vape Problem

ctedwatch December 20, 2018 News

Audit Says Norwalk Schools’ Food Service Making Strides

ctedwatch December 20, 2018 News

Trumbull Owns State We The People Crown Again

ctedwatch December 20, 2018 News

Students Give Special Performances for Local Students

ctedwatch December 20, 2018 News

Talking to Kids About Violence Can Be Difficult but Not Impossible

ctedwatch December 20, 2018 News

The School Shootings of 2018: What’s Behind the Numbers

ctedwatch December 20, 2018 News

The Heartbreaking Work of Tracking School Shootings

ctedwatch December 20, 2018 News

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