Legislators maintain they had a solid agreement with Lamont’s administration last year as part of the two-year budget for an additional $150 million for K-12 public education, but that total has not been placed into the latest budget recommendations.
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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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.