Sandy Hook Parents Win Defamation Suit Against Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones
Sandy Hook parents won a defamation lawsuit against rightwing media figure Alex Jones. Their children were murdered on December 14, 2012, in a massacre at...
Category : Connecticut
Ann Cronin: Miguel Cardona, What Is Your Vision for American Education?
Ann P. Cronin is a former Connecticut Distinguished English Teacher of the Year, a school district administrator, and creator of award-winning programs for the teaching...
Letter from a Connecticut Teacher to Dr. Cardona: Stop the Spring Tests!
Ann Cronin, retired teacher in Connecticut, posted a letter on her blog written by another Connecticut teacher and addressed to Secretary of Education-Designate Miguel Cardona:...
Meet Miguel Cardona, Soon to Be Secretary of Education
The Connecticut Mirror wrote a revealing in-depth analysis of Secretary-designate Miguel Cardona’s life, career, and education ideas. His meteoric rise has been well documented. He...
Politico: Will Dr. Cardona Push 2021 Testing?
Not many people outside Connecticut are familiar with President-Elect Biden’s choice for Secretary of Education. He went to public schools. He has worked in public...
Biden Picks Connecticut Commissioner Miguel Cardonas as Secretary of Education
President-Elect Joe Biden selected Dr. Miguel Cardona, Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, to be his administration’s Secretary of Education. The Washington Post wrote about him:...
Connecticut: Charters Struggled with Ethics of Double Dipping Federal PPP
This story in the Middletown (Connecticut) Press shows that charters in the state debated whether it was ethical to take federal money intended to help...
Wendy Lecker: Connecticut Charter Schools Are Double Dipping
Wendy Lecker is a civil rights attorney who writes often for the Stamford (Ct.) Advicate. she writes here about the disgraceful double dipping of charter...
Sackler Family Transferred $10 Billion Out of Purdue as Opioid Crisis Worsened
The New York Times reports that the Sackler family, one of the nation’s wealthiest families, busily transferred assets to themselves as the opioid crisis worsened...
Wendy Lecker: Stop Blaming Schools for Chronic Absenteeism
In the era of Bush-Obama education policy, it became conventional wisdom to blame schools for the effects of poverty. Civil rights lawyer Wendy Lecker explains...