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Seventy years after Brown v. Board, school funding policies continue to segregate students by wealth. It doesn't have to be that way.

Under Lamont's budget plan, funding for magnet, charter and other choice schools would decrease. That hurts students of color, advocates say.

A report released Tuesday by the Connecticut United Way found 39% of the state’s 1.4 million households are struggling to cover the costs of basic necessities like food, housing, medical treatment and child care.

Lawmakers and advocates gathered Thursday with Robin Fierce, a Connecticut contestant from season 15 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” to celebrate the start of Pride Month with a flag-raising ceremony.

Sandra Ferreira-Molina said when she was 6 and her family immigrated from Colombia to the U.S., her parents “knew they were coming to the land of opportunity, and so as I sit here, I feel privileged....

Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the State of Connecticut’s newly established Commission on Community Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention will hold its inaugural meeting on Wednesday, August 31, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. in room 1D of the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.

The nature of the argument in the leaked Supreme Court opinion that seeks to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision is concerning to local LGBTQ+ community leaders and to local legal experts, who see how the opinion could lead to the erosion of other rights that were presumed to be granted in the U.S. Constitution.

Reply Created by a recently adopted state law, the council will be responsible for encouraging and coordinating programs that increase community awareness and reporting of hate crimes and to combat such crimes. (Shutterstock) CONNECTICUT — Following a steady news feed of swastika graffiti and mysterious nooses, Gov. Ned Lamont announced he would is appointing 25 people to serve as members of the newly formed Connecticut Hate Crimes Advisory Council. Created by a recently adopted state law, t...

Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is appointing 25 people to serve as members of the newly formed Connecticut Hate Crimes Advisory Council.

The council will be responsible for encouraging and coordinating programs that increase community awareness and reporting of hate crimes and to combat such crimes.