As members of a state panel continue to wrestle over the best way to rate teachers, principals in the Hartford schools are being taught how to recognize good teaching when they see it.

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy may have signed what supporters are calling a sweeping education reform bill Tuesday, but its 185-pages don’t begin to touch upon how the state finances all of its public schools.

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School reform advocates and representatives of the teacher unions sat next to each other Tuesday as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed a law that they all believe to be a step toward eliminating the worst-in-the-nation achievement gap.

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After several hours of debate the House unanimously approved a sweeping education reform proposal aimed at closing Connecticut’s worst-in-the-nation achievement gap.

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The 185-page education reform bill was praised by Democratic Senators and panned by Republicans, who didn’t have any time to read the bill before debate began shortly before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Democratic legislative leaders celebrated what they called an “historic” agreement on a sweeping education reform proposal that believe will help Connecticut erase its largest-in-the-nation achievement gap.

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AFT Connecticut has mobilized its teachers and turned them loose on Malloy’s Communications Director Andrew Doba.

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According to Courant education reporter Kathleen Megan, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Friday a special session to tackle education reform is “absolutely” a possibility if an agreement can’t be reached by May 9.

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Hartford Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto wrote  Democratic leadership in the House and Senate Thursday to express her concern about recent drafts of the education reform legislation.

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Members of the General Assembly’s Black and Puerto Rican Caucus held a press conference Thursday to outline what their members could support in an education reform bill.

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