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”
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At last Linda McMahon finds a school that will listen to her
By CHRIS POWELL U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon at last has found a school in Connecticut willing to listen to her. McMahon’s visit to speak at a civics program at an elementary school in Fairfield in January was canceled when parents objected and the school administration decided that public education’s usual exaltation of “diversity” doesn’tContinue reading “At last Linda McMahon finds a school that will listen to her”
Public schools couldn’t meet new home-school standards
By CHRIS POWELL In principle there’s nothing wrong with the basics of the home-schooling legislation that got a public hearing before the General Assembly this week. The bill would require people to notify local officials in person when they withdraw their children from public school to home-school them, to bring their home-schooled children to someContinue reading “Public schools couldn’t meet new home-school standards”
Students visiting state Capitol insist money equals education
By CHRIS POWELL High school students were brought to the state Capitol last week to rally with teachers, school administrators, and others on government’s payroll in support of big increases in state financial aid to municipal school systems. Democrats would nullify more; and parks won’t save cities Just another week in Hartford as state legislatorsContinue reading “Students visiting state Capitol insist money equals education”
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