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Very Familiar Face To Lead Southington High School - Southington, CT - Amid applause, the Southington Board of Education appointed a veteran teacher/leader who has been working in town for 38 years.

Veteran Educator Picked To Lead Southington School - Southington, CT - The Southington Board of Education voted on April 25 to hire a longtime Bloomfield educator to lead one of its elementary schools.

With more than half of the state’s third-graders failing to meet reading benchmarks, education stakeholders across the state agree that existing strategies must change in order to boost student scores. How to go about that change is where the consensus ends. State education officials are doubling down on their support of a piece of legislation […]

State officials say superintendents' complaints about the process created to carry out the Right to Read law are rife with misinformation.

Southington students head back to school with smiles on their faces- SOUTHINGTON — The hallways at Flanders Elementary School were quiet and peaceful, but inside the classrooms, students were smiling and returning to their routines.Students in Southington were welcomed back to school on Thursday morning for the start...

Southington Hires New Principal, Assistant Principal In School System - Southington, CT - Both were appointed at a special board of education meeting on Thursday.

Southington BOE delays vote on teaching cuts, hopes for state aid- SOUTHINGTON — The Board of Education has opted to delay its vote on the slashing of six teaching positions in hopes of receiving additional state funding that would allow the positions to be retained. The approval of the state’s budget will occur on...

6 middle school teaching positions on cutting block in Southington- SOUTHINGTON — Following a special meeting on Wednesday, the Board of Education plans to slash six middle school teaching positions after reductions to its 2023-24 budget request. Following discussions with the Board of Finance and adjustments in...

Plans to close Flanders School draw concern from parents in Southington- SOUTHINGTON — As discussion surrounding the future of the town’s elementary schools continues, a coalition of parents is advocating to keep Flanders School open.Architecture and civil engineering firm SLAM Collaborative presented its elementary...

Some school administrators are reporting a rise in empty desks and teachers calling in sick as the “triple-demic” takes hold in Connecticut classrooms. After two years of pandemic interruption, which drove unprecedented levels of chronic absenteeism and learning loss, educators hoped the 2022-2023 school year would put students back on track. But a wave of respiratory illness has put absences back on the rise in some districts, temporarily stalling their efforts.