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Study finds teachers improved after evaluations
Cincinnati students learned more in the years after their teacher received an evaluation, according to a new study, findings that should encourage Connecticut’s implementation of a teacher evaluation system. Experienced teachers and administrators observed teachers in...
Does CT have a long-term unemployment problem?
Most unemployed workers in Connecticut spend at least 15 weeks out of a job, which could suggest looming problems for both the economy and workers suffering the effects of long-term joblessness. Out of 100 unemployed Connecticut residents, 62 will need more than 15...
Donovan special counsel Laura Jordan’s law license is suspended
The Statewide Grievance Committee, the agency that regulates lawyers in Connecticut, has suspended the law license of Laura Jordan, special counsel to Speaker of the House Chris Donovan, for failing to pay a small fee. Although she earned $132,242 from the state in...
State won’t release decisions giving employees accused of fraud their jobs back
State officials will not release the arbitration decisions that caused the reinstatement of dozens of fired employees who were accused of improperly receiving special disaster food stamp benefits. Office of Policy and Management Director of Legal Affairs Gareth Bye...
The thorny underside of Connecticut’s ‘relatively rosy’ business taxes
Connecticut is an onshore tax haven, according to some readings of a new study, not the greedy, over-taxing monstrosity we all thought it was. Time to close the Yankee Institute. We have won. Hold on. Before we do anything so drastic, let’s take a second look. Ernst...
Income fell faster in high-wage Connecticut
Connecticut experienced an uptick in unemployment last month, bringing it closer to the national average, but income statistics reveal other problems for the state. One of the highest-cost-of-living states, with correspondingly high incomes, Connecticut saw wages fall...
HealthBridge details union sabotage in letter to top prosecutor
The nursing home company facing strikes at five of its Connecticut locations formally asked the state’s top prosecutor to investigate allegations union workers committed sabotage shortly before their strike began. Maureen Weaver, an attorney with Wiggin and Dana who...
Connecticut is losing New England’s tax competition
Americans for Tax Reform has tables that show how Connecticut is falling behind in New England’s tax competition. Connecticut is the only state going in the wrong direction. The rest of New England is holding the line or reducing income and corporate...
Jepsen recuses himself from issues related to HealthBridge strike after walking picket line
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen will recuse himself from legal matters involving the strikes at several nursing homes after joining the picket line Tuesday, according to a spokesman. HealthBridge Management, owner of several nursing homes in Connecticut...
Strike-related sabotage may have risked lives of nursing home residents
Striking nursing home employees who recently received the support of Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy on the picket line allegedly risked the lives of elderly residents when they removed medical id bracelets and committed other acts of disruption, according to a...