by Zachary Janowski | Oct 19, 2011 | Education, Features, General
The State Board of Labor Relations ruled four school districts can give teachers bonuses as part of a program that provides outside funding for college-level classes. The Plainville, Region 11, Windsor and Windsor Locks school districts can continue to participate in...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 14, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The Office of Comptroller Kevin Lembo released details Friday on the longevity payments to state employees totaling more than $10 million. Non-union employees received about 60 percent of total longevity payments. Union employees received about 40 percent. The highest...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 13, 2011 | General, Health Care
My latest post for Health Justice CT asks if health education is a missed opportunity. As I look back on health classes I took in elementary and junior high school, I wonder if they were a missed opportunity with too much sex and drugs, and not enough health. That was...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 13, 2011 | Education, Features, General
The American Jobs Act – a $447 billion combination of tax cuts and government spending championed by President Barack Obama – will fund 3,800 teaching jobs in Connecticut at an average cost of more than $88,000. The one-time infusion of $336 million will temporarily...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 7, 2011 | Features, General
Priscilla Dickman, 55, of Coventry, is the first and only person to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of Connecticut’s new ethics laws and she is also the rare worker convicted of committing fraud so she can go back to work. Dickman is appealing both of those...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 5, 2011 | Features, General
Commissioner Dan Esty disclosed Wednesday $1.2 million in speaking fees earned over the past five years in response to scrutiny of his wife’s financial disclosure forms. Esty, who heads the newly former Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, was a Yale...
