Op-Ed: Connecticut needs transparency in health care
Without transparency of quality data and health care costs, patients cannot make informed decisions nor be fully engaged in their own health care.
View ArticleOp-Ed: Parent explains why she can’t allow her children to take the SBAC test
After doing her own research for months, a Fairfield parent explains why she has no confidence in the state's use of the SBAC test or that student privacy is adequately protected in the use of the test...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Bilingual education in Connecticut an issue of social justice
Bilingual education is an issue of social justice. Across Connecticut, bilingual education (English and Spanish) is now offered to all students elementary through high school in affluent communities,...
View ArticleOp-Ed: School officials should not interfere with opting out of SBAC tests
Gov. Dannel Malloy, Interim Commissioner of Education Dianna Wentzell and all superintendents of schools should cease their obstruction of the rights of parents to decide whether to allow their...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Time to dismantle the CT Board of Regents
The buzzards have been circling above Connecticut higher education for many years, and it is certainly time to bring it back to life. There isn’t a teacher or a staff member in the entire Connecticut...
View ArticleOp-Ed: How much CT environmental spending seems right?
How much does each of us Connecticut residents contribute, on average, to the portion of the current DEEP budget devoted to environmental protection, according the Connecticut Council on Environmental...
View ArticleOp-Ed: CEA rhetoric not helping kids, public schools are
The CEA’s recent Op-Ed, “Connecticut charter schools a good idea gone awry,” made a bunch of claims that aren’t only false, they’re dishonest and frankly insulting to parents who are exercising their...
View ArticleOp-Ed: It is time to unshackle Connecticut’s juvenile defendants
When we use shackles in juvenile court, we are not seeing youth with a potential for reform. That is not juvenile justice. In fact, that is no justice at all.
View ArticleOp-Ed: CT policy recovering welfare benefits from the dead damages poor families
Government assistance should not be treated as a loan, and the law that allows the state to seize the estates of deceased welfare recipients hurts the surviving family members -- the very people public...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Her story in support of ending one’s life with dignity
Death with dignity is a tough issue for many of us. Although I have co-sponsored the bill before the Legislature, I didn’t always support the concept. When I started to think about it as a matter of...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Physician-assisted suicide is not a choice issue
Proponents of assisted suicide call the concept aid-in-dying. They view it as a choice issue, much like same-sex marriage, an idea whose time has come. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
View ArticleOp-Ed: Connecticut should have bilingual education for all
We need to embrace the fact that speaking more than one language is a 21st-century skill that all American students should have, yet our state is lagging behind others in its adoption of bilingual...
View ArticleOp-Ed: One educator’s prescription for renewal of No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act is up for renewal. Most famous was its promise of having all U.S. students proficient in reading and math by 2014. That was the year the U.S. would again be number one in...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Modernize elections, but not the Secretary of the State’s way
The Registrars of Voters Association of Connecticut recognizes that there are things we must do to improve in the way elections are administered in Connecticut, but disagrees with the Secretary of the...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Merrill — It is time to strengthen Connecticut’s election system
Connecticut is unique among the 50 states in how we run elections -- and not in a good way. I have proposed professionalizing election administration in Connecticut by restructuring the office of...
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