Education stakeholders pointed to the fact that despite what’s happening on a federal level, that there’s also an opportunity for state leadership, including Gov. Ned Lamont and local lawmakers, to step up and protect education in Connecticut.
“I think it’s exciting that we’ve had back-to-back possible leaders at the federal level on education come from the state of Connecticut,” said Steven Hernández, the executive director of ConnCAN, an education nonprofit and branch of the national group 50CAN.
“Connecticut, in a lot of ways, is a microcosm of the rest of the country,” he added. But “what’s most important is that we do not take this opportunity lightly, that we do not point fingers at the federal government and say that’s the reason that we’re failing, rather than how much we’re investing as a state and what we’ve done in the past. How many administrations have we had in the past 10, 20, 30 years and we have yet to move the needle on the achievement gap?”...
