A national education think tank gave Connecticut’s science curriculum a C Tuesday in its report, “The State of Science Standards 2012.” Connecticut earned four out of seven points for “content and rigor” and 1.8 out of three for “clarity and specificity.” The Thomas B. Fordham Institute issued the report, reiterating the C grade it gave [...]
The American Legislative Exchange Council gave Connecticut’s education policy a C+ and ranked the state 39th for its ability educate low-income students. Connecticut policies showed some improvement from last year when the state received a C- from ALEC, a national organization for conservative state lawmakers. In 2010, Connecticut ranked 29th in educating low-income students. The [...]
The University of Connecticut Foundation will pay about $4,500 to send Gov. Dannel Malloy to the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, while the state owes the foundation $18 million in matching grants. Since 2007, the state has pledged to match one quarter of all donations to the UConn Foundation endowment. This commitment [...]
Ten Connecticut school districts can produce two high school graduates for the price of one Hartford high school diploma, according to Department of Education data. The most recent 13 years of education, representing kindergarten through 12th grade, cost $165,275 in Hartford. With a graduation rate of 69.3 percent, the cost per diploma in Hartford is [...]
The State Board of Labor Relations ruled four school districts can give teachers bonuses as part of a program that provides outside funding for college-level classes. The Plainville, Region 11, Windsor and Windsor Locks school districts can continue to participate in Project Opening Doors, a nonprofit that funds Advanced Placement classes in Connecticut public schools. [...]
The American Jobs Act – a $447 billion combination of tax cuts and government spending championed by President Barack Obama – will fund 3,800 teaching jobs in Connecticut at an average cost of more than $88,000. The one-time infusion of $336 million will temporarily help school districts rehire laid off teachers or avoid laying them [...]
State auditors first notified Southern Connecticut State University that it overpaid employees in a December 2000 audit, a problem that persists unresolved in the most recent audit, issued almost 11 years later. The Auditors of Public Accounts reviewed ten payments to employees in 1998 and 1999 for unused sick and vacation time and found none [...]
State auditors have uncovered evidence of timecard forgery at Southern Connecticut State University, including suspicious signatures by a supervisor who was on vacation. The Auditors of Public Accounts released Monday their report on SCSU for 2008 and 2009 which found numerous problems with university practices. The auditors said a university employee got a new job [...]
The state of Connecticut spends a lot of money supporting school districts, paying nearly 10 percent of the state budget in direct grants. And each year cities and towns put up a fight at the Capitol to keep their share of funds. The state’s educational cost sharing grants are paid based on a complicated formula [...]
Gov. Dannel Malloy celebrated the recent passage of a bill giving in-state tuition subsidies to undocumented immigrants by calling it “an increased opportunity for our state’s students to succeed in whatever path they choose.” As long as they don’t want to work for the State of Connecticut, that is. “The state follows the federal [...]
