Keep public service public – Waterbury Republican-American

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05/23/2020 – Editorial The big Connecticut news story this week was the collapse of state government’s education-oriented collaboration with Westport-based Dalio Philanthropies. Gov. Ned Lamont, a backer of the collaboration Read More …

Education slush fund dies of accountability – Journal Inquirer

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05/23/2020 – By Chris Powell Begun in secrecy, deception, and arrogance a year ago, the Partnership for Connecticut died the same way this week. Its tombstone should read: Let’s not Read More …

Lamont and his party don’t see eye-to-eye on secrecy rules for partnerships with private sector – The CT Mirror

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05/20/2020 – By Keith M. Phaneuf As Connecticut’s education partnership with Dalio Philanthropies evaporated Tuesday, an aggrieved Gov. Ned Lamont insisted his administration wasn’t done teaming with talented individuals from Read More …

Dalios pull out of state education partnership, attack Republican reps – Connecticut Post

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05/19/2020 – By Kaitlyn Krasselt Barbara and Ray Dalio are exiting the Partnership for Connecticut, ending the arrangement that was touted in 2019 as a unique way to reach troubled Read More …

Make teens’ murder trials public, Dalio ‘education’ farce too – Journal Inquirer

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05/18/2020 – By Chris Powell Obsessed with the virus epidemic, Connecticut might not have noticed two deaths last week from a different cause — the murder of two women in Read More …

RHAM board strips member of chairmanship after whistleblower complaint – Journal Inquirer

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05/16/2020 – By Michelle France HEBRON — Exactly one week after RHAM Board of Education Chairwoman Susan Rapeyle made a whistleblower complaint about board members’ unethical — and possibly illegal Read More …

Some Lawmakers Complain About Lack of Transparency as State Readies to Reopen – NBC Connecticut

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05/15/2020 – By Christine Stuart The more than 50 members of the Reopen Connecticut Advisory Committee will be making their recommendations about reopening Connecticut’s economy and schools to Gov. Ned Read More …

Amity Regional, Avon, West Haven win top prizes; honorable mentions also to East Lyme and Taft – 2020 CFOG Essay Contest

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Wendy Zhang, a junior at Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge, has won the first prize of $1,000 in the 2020 Connecticut Foundation for Open Government’s Forrest Palmer High School Read More …

Turmoil at Dalio education partnership – Hartford Courant

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05/13/2020 – By Jon Lender There is already big trouble at the high-profile education partnership that Gov. Ned Lamont and legislators have entered into in the past year with hedge Read More …

Bridgeport refuses to release video from false rape case despite order from state commission – CTPost.com

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05/12/2020 – By Daniel Tepfer BRIDGEPORT — The city has filed a lawsuit against the state Freedom of Information Commission seeking to appeal an order by the commission that the Read More …