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CT already had a teacher shortage. COVID made it worse.
Adria Watson, CTMirror.org
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The teacher shortage in Connecticut was a problem long before this year a month into the 2014-15 school year, for example, 250 teaching positions were unfilled statewide.John Moore / Getty Images
With three kids attending schools where the learning model is different from the district where she teaches high school math, Kristle Rodriguez has struggled at times to balance the needs of her students and her children.
Rodriguez’s children go to school in Waterbury, where students attend in-person classes for half the day and learn remotely the remainder of the day. In Litchfield where Rodriguez teaches, however, students have had in-person learning for most of the school year.
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
Desks are set up at a gym for alternate learning classes on Thursday, Sep. 3, 2020 at Carrigan Intermediate School in West Haven. Part of the gym is available for one class at a time with a wall between them.
With three kids attending schools where the learning model is different from the district where she teaches high school math, Kristle Rodriguez has struggled at times to balance the needs of her students and her children.
Rodriguez’s children go to school in Waterbury, where students attend in-person classes for half the day and learn remotely the remainder of the day. In Litchfield where Rodriguez teaches, however, students have had in-person learning for most of the school year.
SPEED READ:
Ten so-called donor states pay more in taxes to the federal government than they receive back in funding for things like Medicaid or education.
Connecticut tops the list of donor states. Residents there receive just 74 cents back for every $1 they pay in federal taxes.
Thanks to 2017 s federal tax overhaul, the number of donor states could grow. That s because the amount residents owe in federal taxes will increase now that the state and local tax deduction is capped.
Residents in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York have some of the highest tax bills in the nation. They also pay thousands more in federal taxes than their state receives back in federal funding.
Editorial: Pandemic aid, such as it is
the Times Union Editorial Board
Dec. 21, 2020
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) arrives at the Capitol in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times)STEFANI REYNOLDS, STR / New York Times
THE ISSUE:
After months of gridlock, Congress comes up with a pandemic relief bill that falls short of what’s needed.
THE STAKES:
For a bill that’s supposed to rescue struggling Americans and boost the economy in the midst of a worsening pandemic, the 11th-hour deal Congress agreed to falls far short. But for now, it will have to do.