By CHRIS POWELL As most drivers in Connecticut have noticed, for a few years now the state’s highways have seemed full of homicidal maniacs, like the one who was arrested last week by a state trooper for going 127 miles per hour on the limited-access portion of Route 6 in Mansfield, nearly double the speedContinue reading “Get real about speed limits and student suspensions”
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Buying teacher union support doesn’t make schools better
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”
Connecticut’s racial gap in education is actually a welfare problem
By Chris Powell Connecticut long has been notorious for its big racial performance gap in education. State government should be equally notorious for not having figured out what to do about it even as the solution has been obvious to anyone taking the trouble to look at the failing students. Why would Democrats dump Larson,Continue reading “Connecticut’s racial gap in education is actually a welfare problem”
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