COVID-19 Calamity: CT’s most vulnerable children more at risk during coronavirus crisis
Martha Stone is worried. She is the executive director of the Center for Children’s Advocacy, a nonprofit with attorneys who represent children intertwined with the child protection agency. “… Is …
Bernie’s Billion-Dollar Education Plan: Expand Magnet Funding to Integrate Racially Isolated Schools
4,300 magnet schools educate about 3.5 million students nationally, making them a leading form of public school choice and a primary lever to promote integration. They have been viewed as …
Bill would provide attorneys to young adults in DCF care
If it weren’t for the Center for Children’s Advocacy … “What if I didn’t have somebody to advocate for me there?” Kai Greene asked during a recent public hearing before …
Award Winners: CT Law Tribune 2020 Professional Excellence
Winners and finalists have been chosen for the Connecticut Law Tribune’s sixth annual Professional Excellence Awards. Award winners come from a broad range of backgrounds, including private-sector, government and non-profit …
Audit finds poor performance by state’s Medicaid transportation broker; cancer patient waited 5 hours
State auditors, in a report Wednesday on Medicaid transportation, shredded the performance of the state’s vendor, Veyo, which is paid a total of $160 million over three years for providing …
Educating Incarcerated Youth
According to a 1997 court decision, Connecticut must ensure that juveniles in state detention get a good education. But 23 years later, that’s still a challenge. We’ll discuss why there …
30 Years Later, Settlement Reached in Connecticut School-Desegregation Case
Parties in “Sheff v. O’Neill,” a long battle over school desegregation in Hartford, reached a settlement Friday afternoon. While in many communities throughout the country, school segregation is a thing …
Connecticut utility regulators seek to reduce electric shutoffs
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Public utilities regulators in Connecticut have asked the state’s two largest electricity providers to take steps to reduce the number of winter shutoffs to households having …
After power shut-offs in portions of Connecticut double, regulators seek to make utilities do more to ensure poor families get hardship protection
“It’s an extraordinary decision. They heard us. It reflects what PURA’s new priorities will be,” said lawyer Bonnie Roswig of the Center for Children’s Advocacy in Hartford. In a case …
Hartford Courant files federal First Amendment lawsuit over Connecticut juvenile law that makes court cases secret
The Hartford Courant filed a federal First Amendment lawsuit Wednesday to overturn a new Connecticut law that the newspaper says violates the speech and open government rights of the press …
