By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut is a case study of the fallacy that spending on public schools correlates with student learning. The state has been increasing spending in the name of education since the state Supreme Court’s 1977 decision in the school financing case of Horton v. Meskill, which prompted state government to increase financial grantsContinue reading “Buying teacher union support doesn’t make schools better”
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‘Guardrails’ have big gaps and so don’t achieve much
By Chris Powell There’s a big gap in Connecticut’s “fiscal guardrails,” the rules enacted in 2017 to require state government to save a big part of any budget surplus and apply it to its unfunded pension obligations. The gap was noted the other day in an essay in the Hartford Courant by the executive director of the ConnecticutContinue reading “‘Guardrails’ have big gaps and so don’t achieve much”
Praise late chief justice but not for Sheff case
By Chris Powell As the first woman to get tenure as a professor at Yale Law School, the first woman appointed to Connecticut’s Supreme Court, and the state’s first woman chief justice, Ellen Ash Peters must have had something going for her. But the tributes offered for her last week after her death at ageContinue reading “Praise late chief justice but not for Sheff case”
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