Parents got a helpful holiday present from the State Department of Education (SDE) this week! With little fanfare, the SDE rolled out the School Performance Index (SPI), which provides families…

Congratulations to Christina Kishimoto and the students of the Hartford school district! Today, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it has awarded Hartford a $4,996,773 grant after the…

Did you know that when a student is “proficient” in math or reading in State A, that student is not necessarily also “proficient” in the same subject in State B?…

After an impressive year in education reform, we’re continuing to set national trends in Connecticut! Today, the National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL), the Ford Foundation, and Connecticut leaders…

So what can we learn from the federal Department of Education’s publication of the nation’s graduation rates this week? On the new and more rigorous metrics used by the DOE,…

Each November 15th, the Connecticut budget office projects state revenues and expenditures for the next few years.  This year, the news was bad.  A $1.2 billion hole has been projected…

This month, the Early Childhood Cabinet–along with a plethora of providers and advocates, as well as the occasional journalist–gathered to hear from a working group about the early childhood Quality…

In a mostly deserted Legislative Office Building, an important Education Cost Sharing Task Force meeting was held in a small conference room where task force participants and spectators sat knee…

Since the passage of PA 12-116, there has been a lot of discussion about the new educator evaluation guidelines, which allow up to 15% of an educator’s evaluation to be…

Brett Bishop is a senior consultant for Focus on Results after 20 years as a teacher, assistant principal and principal in Western Massachusetts.  For more than twelve years, Focus On…

This Election Day, Bridgeport voters will make a critical decision that will impact students in their public schools for years to come. The district’s Charter Revision Commission has put forth…

This week, the Regional School District #10 has officially embarked upon its full-day kindergarten program, after a long campaign. Regional School District 10 with ten board members, and two towns…