by Zachary Janowski | Sep 19, 2012 | Blog, General, Taxes & Spending
City Journal published my op-ed yesterday about Gov. Dannel Malloy’s failing plan to save money from the state employee unions: Delivering his first budget address as Connecticut governor in February 2011, Dannel P. Malloy described the principle that would...
by Kelly Delaney | Sep 18, 2012 | Blog, Education, General
According to the Wall Street Journal, the two largest teachers unions spent $330 million on politics and peddling influence between 2007 and 2011. “Some of the spending that the two teachers unions identified to the Labor Department as ‘political and lobbying’...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 12, 2012 | Blog, Education, Features, General
Sharon Palmer – Communist award winner and vice president of American Federation of Teachers Connecticut – will become Connecticut’s labor commissioner on Oct. 5. In her leadership role with AFT, she emailed the union’s membership Tuesday asking them to support...
by JR Romano | Sep 7, 2012 | Blog, General, Taxes & Spending
“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel famously advised. Governor Daniel Malloy and Congressman Chris Murphy seem to take this advice to heart: with more than half of the country recovering from drought, they are calling...
by Kelly Delaney | Sep 6, 2012 | Blog, Education, General
This year Connecticut was regrettably recognized for having the most dramatic achievement gap in the country. These results suggest that a serious problem exists in our public schools, but a recent study looking at the practice of social promotion and other reforms...
by Zack Albert | Sep 5, 2012 | Blog, Education, General
Although Connecticut has often been commended for its educational achievements, a recent study by Newsweek and the Daily Beast didn’t rank a single Connecticut school in the top 100 schools nationally. The study aimed to rank schools based on their “Newsweek Score,” a...
