The CT Mirror

Gov. Ned Lamont’s Blue Ribbon Commission on K-12 Education Funding and Accountability has officially launched.

The 23-member commission is chaired by Lamont’s deputy chief of staff, Natalie Wagner,...

Last July, as Mayor Erin Stewart of New Britain looked ahead to leaving office and beginning a gubernatorial campaign in November, she sent a stunning email to four officials — a demand for more than $205,000 she calculated the city owed her for unused vacation, holiday, sick and personal days as its elected mayor.

On a spreadsheet, Stewart essentially submitted a ...

Dressed in white, protesters sang, chanted and performed street theater in a demonstration against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in front of the Abraham Ribicoff U.S. Court House in Hartford on Wednesday.

The peaceful rally was an attempt to bring renewed attention to ongoing ICE activity in Connecticut, and it was the first large anti-ICE action at tha...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A year ago, the White House was unleashing a blitz on higher education. At one campus after another, Trump officials opened investigations and cut federal funding unless schools fell in line with the R...

The budget caps that have radically constrained how Connecticut funds education, town aid and other core services for nearly a decade can’t be overhauled for two more years because of contractual pledges to bond holders.

But many officials and advocates say programs being starved by those caps can’t wait that long. And with federal pandemic grants — which had suppl...