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Falling student population means higher teacher pay

By CHRIS POWELL What does it mean that, as the Connecticut Mirror reported last week, Connecticut’s birth rate is the ninth lowest in the country and that the state’s public school student population has fallen steadily since 2006, from 578,000 to 498,000, down nearly 14% in 20 years? Counterintuitively, it means bigger paydays for teachersContinue reading “Falling student population means higher teacher pay”

Are people no longer obliged to support their own children?

By CHRIS POWELL Anyone following the news in Connecticut might wonder if people are still expected to support their own children, or if a great wave of impoverishment and exemption from responsibility is sweeping the state. UConn facilitates student riots; and sidewalks aren’t therapy If cows will get tax credits, all journalists should farm GovernorContinue reading “Are people no longer obliged to support their own children?”