Experts: educational equity in midst of a pandemic isn’t easy
Across the state, students are logging in to distance learning, but are they actually learning — In the midst of the pandemic, some wonder if the American right to an …
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 …
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 …
After 22 Years, Educating Incarcerated Youth Still a Challenge
In 1993, Martha Stone, a lawyer at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, brought a lawsuit challenging, among other things, the conditions of confinement at the state’s juvenile detention centers. Four …
Lawsuit Settlement Significant for Education of Expelled Students
Alicia B. vs. Malloy, the Center for Children’s Advocacy lawsuit challenging the inadequate education of expelled students in Connecticut, has settled. This settlement is a significant step forward for the …
Lack of Talk About Education in Malloy Speech Upsets Advocates
After eight years as the state’s relentless champion for better education, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy failed to mention schools in his last state-of-the-state address Wednesday, which left education advocates troubled, …
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