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There is progress being made for a pandemic-era program aimed at getting students back into the classroom, and keeping them there. State leaders announced a...

Tobin Partners with State of Connecticut to Support its Nationally Recognized Data Strategy

This essay originally appeared at FutureEd. Student testing at the national, state and local levels has given policymakers a clear, up-to-date picture of learning loss during the pandemic. But on another key recovery metric, student absenteeism, reporting has lagged badly in many states, making it difficult to know if the hundreds of millions of dollars […]

Despite being three years out of the height of COVID-19, academic performance in Connecticut schools is still below pre-pandemic levels, according to new da ...

Connecticut schools still lag behind pre-pandemic levels of student achievement and attendance despite improvements in both categories detailed during a Monday Department of Education press conference where officials released statistics for the 2022-23 academic year.

New data show that Connecticut students are struggling to return to pre-pandemic performance levels, and absenteeism remains high.

CT school performance, attendance scores slow to recover- Despite being three years out of the height of COVID-19, academic performance in Connecticut schools is still below pre-pandemic levels, according to new data.At a news conference Monday morning, the state’s Department of Education released 2022-23...

Since last week’s passage of the 2023-24 state budget, many details of the $229 billion spending plan have been slowly bubbling to the surface because state lawmakers were not able to digest the thousands of pages compiled into 10 bills that make up the document that will govern people’s lives for at least the next year.

It took a full extra month and five extensions, but Governor Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders have finally come to an agreement on a 2023-24 budget.

How does an elementary school more than halve its chronic absenteeism rate, down to 25 percent, in a year? John C. Daniels School leaders had one answer…