Connecticut’s science curriculum gets a C
By Zachary Janowski | Raising Hale
HARTFORD– A national education think tank gave Connecticut’s science curriculum a C Tuesday in its report, “The State of Science Standards 2012.”
Read More>>UConn Foundation pays for governor’s Europe trip, state owes foundation $18 million
By Zachary Janowski | Raising Hale
HARTFORD — 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 [...]
Conn. loses energy complaint despite paying lawyers $4.6 million, begins appeal process
By Zachary Janowski
Connecticut’s Attorney General and electricity regulators paid Washington lawyers – who “failed in the extreme” according to a federal judge – $4.6 million to challenge $65 million in payments to three New York energy companies.
Read More>>CT union touts its own ‘ed reform’ plan
ChoiceMedia.TV | January 3, 2012
At a news conference on Tuesday, the Connecticut Education Association (CEA) released A View from the Classroom: Proven Ideas for Student Achievement, a set of proposals the union calls “a comprehensive education reform plan, developed by teachers.”
Beyond the more traditional union calls for higher spending and lower class sizes, the CEA says [...]
Vote to unionize CT daycare owners will continue until Dec. 20
By Zachary Janowski | Raising Hale
HARTFORD — Certain Connecticut daycare owners have until Dec. 20 to vote on whether Service Employees International Union 2001 should represent them in negotiations with the state.
The vote, part of a process kick-started by Gov. Dannel Malloy’s executive order nine, began on Dec. 5.
Daycare owners who run a business out of their home [...]
