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While Connecticut does not get as much federal funding as some others, towns and cities with higher concentrations of low-income students rely more heavily on those grants. Cities like Waterbury, Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport would be disproportionately affected by a slowdown or reduction to Title I funds.

Linda McMahon, the nominee for secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, faced a flurry of questions at her Thursday confirmation hearing about President Donald Trump’s impending order seeking to dismantle the agency she has been tapped to lead.

An audit by the state comptroller’s office in December found that nearly all the campus presidents within the CSCU system had misspent public dollars, including Cheng, who charged at least $27,000 on his state-issued credit card between 2021 and 2024.

Parental satisfaction in the quality of education, school mental health services and college preparedness efforts is higher in Connecticut compared to the national average, according to a recent survey.

Aleysha Ortiz can’t read even most one-syllable words. The words she can read were memorized during karaoke or from subtitles at the bottom of TV screens and associating the words she saw with what she heard, she said.

The data was released just as the 2024-25 school year gets underway for many districts across Connecticut this week.

The recommendations come on the heels of months of debate around the country about how to tackle technology in the classroom.

Tong said that he plans to “aggressively defend the state’s necessary and lawful actions to protect public health,” with the case’s final pending piece

Some superintendents said the state of Connecticut's process to request a waiver was confusing and inconsistent, with one calling the law overbearing.