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April 1, 2021 Springer Nature and IReL, a nationally funded e-resource licensing consortium of publicly funded Irish higher educational institutions, have agreed a four year transformative agreement (TA).  This new deal, the 13th for Springer Nature – more than any other publisher,  gives publications from researchers across Ireland increased global reach.  Research shows that TAs are the fastest way to enable the OA transition as they enable more authors to publish OA. This is because TA’s offer authors an easy way to comply with funders’ OA requirements  whilst enabling participa...

Encourage carefully planned affordable housing in Wilton Stephen Hudspeth FacebookTwitterEmail Stephen Hudspeth Web sigStaff / Hearst Connecticut Media Being proactive on well-conceived affordable housing proposals helps to take pressure from Hartford off Wilton for other ways to get to that result. That can sound cynical, and there has been a charge recently leveled against our locally-elected state officials of cynicism in their alleged voting “no” on state initiatives to move us in various directions while knowing full well that the opposite result will come about given the composition...

@GovNedLamont announced that his proposed budget for fiscal Year 2022-2023 includes expanding the #OpenChoice program which allows urban students to attend public schools in nearby suburban towns.

NORWALK, Conn. — Two online events that might interest you: League’s annual meet and greet is Sunday, on Zoom Haskell holds forum on Open Choice program LVW online A League of Women Voters of Norwalk flier. Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center’s Voting Rights and Elections Program, will star at the League of Women Voters of Norwalk annual meet and greet, to be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31, on Zoom. “Making our Democracy Safe and Secure” is the theme of Pérez’ presentation, which will be followed by a question-and-answer session. The event is cosponsored by the Norwal...

Ryan Caron King/Connecticut Public Radio The percentage of Hartford students in racially integrated schools dropped significantly this academic year amid the challenge of the COVID pandemic and a major change in the operation of the regional school choice lottery, according to figures provided by the state Department of Education. Last year, 43.9% of Hartford students were enrolled in a school that was considered integrated, while this year only 36.9% are in integrated settings under the policies in place to comply with the Sheff v. O’Neill school desegregation case. The last time the perc...