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On this episode of Audacious, meet a boy who became a chess master at ten, siblings who started college at seven, and one of the youngest members of Mensa, who joined when she was two.

School districts across Connecticut are deciding whether to arm security officers with guns.

In Hartford, a group of parents has launched a campaign asking the school district to ensure language access and interpretation for parents with limited English proficiency.

It’s been a banner year for student worker organizing. Several new undergraduate student employee unions formed in the past few months, including at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Connecticut school districts have been required to file annual two-page reports indicating they have conducted lockdown drills — but more than a dozen districts have failed to file the report even once.

Close to 90% of schools already teach about climate change, but it will be required by state law beginning in July 2023.

The Hispanic Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut and Eastern Connecticut State University have joined forces to offer scholarships to in-state students from Hispanic and Latino communities.

Measure would have boosted aid for magnet, charter, vo-ag schools

Fewer students are enrolling in Connecticut public pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms. But state education officials said this is a trend that’s been happening since before the pandemic.

Today on Audacious, all four guests are named Pat Smith! What else do they have in common? And what's so different about them?