McMahon squanders her chance to improve Connecticut education

By CHRIS POWELL There’s so much wrong with public education in Connecticut generally and with the Hartford school system particularly that criticizing them doesn’t require making up stories. But that’s what the U.S. education secretary, Connecticut’s own Linda McMahon, did the other day to try to score a political point. Expect more from students, evenContinue reading “McMahon squanders her chance to improve Connecticut education”

Hartford’s new curriculum: toilet training and diapers

By CHRIS POWELL Teachers in Connecticut, especially those in the poverty factories that are the state’s cities, long have lamented that many of their youngest students arrive in school grossly unprepared even for kindergarten, unable to identify things as simple as letters and colors because of a lack of parenting. Fault in paralyzed man’s caseContinue reading “Hartford’s new curriculum: toilet training and diapers”

Can Murphy and other Democrats discern yet why Trump won?

By Chris Powell Having told the country last year that Joe Biden was as sharp as ever mentally and deserved another four years as president and that a new law with gaping holes in it was needed to control the border, Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy now is aspiring to the Democratic Party’s national leadership.Continue reading “Can Murphy and other Democrats discern yet why Trump won?”