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• 1/1/0001 Student Data is Focus of Statewide Education Conference

  The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) and the Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) will be hosting the third annual Data Showcase.

• 1/1/0001 Connecticut Expands Statewide Robotics Education Program

  Because of their high impact on wide variety of students of all ages, after-school robotics programs will be expanded statewide as part of new State of Connecticut science and technology initiative.

• 1/1/0001 State Department of Education Forges New Partnership with Windham

  The Connecticut State Department of Education and the Windham Public Schools have begun a new partnership to improve learning opportunities for students in the district under the state's new accountability system.

• 1/1/0001 Governor Rell's 'Summer Reading Challenge' Will Recognize 19 Connecticut Schools

  Students in about 100 Connecticut high schools will take part in a new 12th grade state-level mathematics and reading pilot program for the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) next year.

• 1/1/0001 Connecticut High School Seniors to be Part of National 12th Grade State Reading and Mathematics Assessment

  Students in about 100 Connecticut high schools will take part in a new 12th grade state-level mathematics and reading pilot program for the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) next year.

• 1/1/0001 Food That's IN When School is Out!

  This summer, approximately 30,000 Connecticut children will be able to receive free meals through the 2008 federal Summer Food Service Program for Children but qualified local sponsoring organizations must be found.

• 1/1/0001 State Education Department Working with 12 Districts to Close Achievement Gap

  The Connecticut State Department of Education is working directly with twelve of the State's urban school districts to improve the quality of their educational programs and to help their students to achieve at higher levels.

• 1/1/0001 State to Conduct Public Forums on High School Reform

  State Education Commissioner Mark K. McQuillan will host a series of public forums around the state to share the details of a proposal to improve the High School experience for students and to raise standards of performance.

• 1/1/0001 Schools Increase Focus on Health Literacy Programs

  When it comes to healthy children, education may be te best medicine. That is why Connecticut public schools are increasing their focus on teaching young people about physical fitness, safety and health.

• 1/1/0001 Magnet school educator named Connecticut's Teacher of the Year

  Joan Hurley, an elemntary school teacher at the University of Hartord Magnet School, whose teaching focuses on multiple intelligences, has been named Connecticut's 2008 "Teacher of the Year."

• 1/1/0001 Education Commissioner Visits Outstanding CT Teacher and Bestows Surprise $25,000 Milken National Educator Award

  State Education Commissioner Mark K. McQuillan visited the Metropolitan Learning Center in Bloomfield on Wednesday to present a National Educator Award to an unsuspected Thomas Brodnitzki - a high school Social Studies teacher.

• 1/1/0001 Connecticut's performance on 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is consistent with 2005 results

  Connecticut's results on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that the percentage of Grade 4 and 8 students scoring at or above the NAEP proficient level in mathematics and reading continues to remain above the national average.

• 1/1/0001 'Adequate Yearly Progress' of Connecticut Schools and Districts under NCLB

• 1/1/0001 Districts "In need of Improvement"

• 1/1/0001 Schools not making AYP