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Colleges, Universities Activating Plans To Deal With Swine Flu

Connecticut colleges and universities are advising students to have those products on hand for the expected return of the H1N1 virus, popularly known as swine flu.

School Districts Worried About Paying Magnet School Tuition

Suburban school districts around Hartford are reeling from the possibility that they will have to spend hundreds of thousands of unbudgeted dollars to send students to city magnet schools.

Middletown's Macdonough School Closing Achievement Gap

Macdonough School, which officials once considered closing, is now being highlighted as an example of how to close the education achievement gap.

Hartford Schools Getting National Praise After Reforming System

7.27.09 - In recent history whenever the Hartford school district made news, it usually wasn't good.

At UConn, Long Relationship Leads To Legal Trouble

Mark Wentzel was flying high in more ways than one in 2005, making 7.21.09 - multiple trips to Dubai as one of the University of Connecticut's point people on a plan to build a satellite campus in one of the richest countries in the world.

Tech Schools Short On Teachers

Connecticut's technical high schools lost roughly 10 percent of their teachers in the state retirement incentive program, leaving gaping holes in many trade shops and classrooms statewide

Conn. Gov. Rell Will Propose No Cuts In Key Education Grants

Gov. M. Jodi Rell will propose no cuts in the major education grant to cities and towns when she reveals her two-year budget plan today. Rell will, however, call for a 5 percent cut in public higher education, and she would defer construction projects at the University of Connecticut and all public colleges by one year, sources said.

Change In Admissions Procedure Upsets Families

The audition sequence at the competitive Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts is changing. This has prompted disagreement about how the process was previously conducted and discontent among families who believe they've been lied to about the school.

Free Speech Case May Lead To Legislation

In his ruling on a pioneering Internet free speech case last month, U.S. District Judge Mark R. Kravitz offered something of a plea to higher courts: Revisit the boundaries of free speech for students.

A Tuition Tipping Point For UConn

For the first time in the school's history, University of Connecticut students could shoulder more of the cost of their education than the state does as the university braces for a cut of as much as 10 percent in the state budget.

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