While Connecticut ranks among states with the highest levels of education spending, most of that does not derive from the state itself but from municipal budgets.
As Donald Trump fleshes out his promise to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, experts suggest that Connecticut schools would be somewhat insulated from federal policy shifts, but still vulnerable to spending cuts that could arise in the president-elect’s next term.
Hartford Courant: Sheff v. O’Neill was supposed to save and desegregate Connecticut schools. Did it?
Thirty-five years after first being filed, questions surround the landmark Sheff v. O'Neill case and whether it has moved the needle on educational achievement and integration.
Hartford Courant: Sheff v. O’Neill was supposed to save and desegregate Connecticut schools. Did it?
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Student debt from unpaid meals is soaring after the vast majority of Connecticut schools returned to a paid lunch model at the start of the 2023 to 2024 school year.
Mayors, clergy and school district leaders mobilized in Hartford Thursday to urge Gov. Ned Lamont and the General Assembly to fast-track state education funding in an attempt to scale down public schools’ impending fall from a fiscal cliff carved by the expiration of federal COVID relief.