Of Connecticut’s approximately 50,000 professional public educators (teachers, administrators, school social workers, counselors, and other certified school employees) in the 2019-2020 school year, 9.6% were racial and ethnic minorities, according to the State Department of Education’s (SDE) data website.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has thrown all of us onto an uncertain path forward to health and well-being. We do not know how and when the residents of our state will enjoy a world without this public health threat. We do know that, despite our collective best efforts to keep safe, people are suffering physically, emotionally and financially.
Read MoreIt’s been a very good week for the central Connecticut town of Cheshire, named as a Best Place to Live in the U.S. and home to a National Blue Ribbon School.
Read MoreRichard Leite, President & CEO of Simtech, Inc., based in East Granby, has been selected as Exporter of the Year by the U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in Connecticut. Established in 1988, Simtech distributes and exports military aircraft spares to the U.S. and foreign governments, companies and depots. The company has customers in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and North America.
Read MoreOverall enrollment has decreased at Capital Community College with the start of the new academic year amidst COVID-19, as well as the eleven other two-year colleges are overseen by the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities. According to preliminary figures, the decline has been in the 10-13 percent range – final numbers are not expected until late September. For Latinos, just as the pandemic has been disproportionately more challenging both in the number of cases and economics, the enrollment decrease is higher, estimated at about 17 percent.
Read MoreLeading what is described as the first and oldest knot shop in the nation, Mystic Knotwork’s President & CEO Matthew Beaudoin has been named as the Connecticut’s Small Business Person of the Year by the U. S. Small Business Administration. The award coincides with 2020 Small Business Week, being celebrated this week in September.
Read MoreEmployers in the U.S. – including Connecticut - report improved hiring plans for Q4 following the ten year low reported in Q3 according to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey of more than 8,700 U.S. employers. Connecticut employers plan to hire at a slower pace with an Employment Outlook of 6%.
Read MoreJune 10, 1983, Tracey Thurman received one last beating from her estranged husband, Charles “Buck” Thurman, as the Torrington police officer she’d summoned waited in his car across the street. Connecticut law has evolved in the decades since, nudged by events local and national, but there remains more to be done.
Read MoreGovernor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Paid Leave Authority have announced the launch of a new website – CTPaidLeave.org – with the goal of supporting all Connecticut residents to understand their roles, rights, and responsibilities based on Connecticut’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (PFMLA), described as the most comprehensive in the nation.
Read MoreA study just-published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Neurology demonstrates for the first time the feasibility of a Guilford company’s industry-changing portable low-field magnetic resonance image (MRI) device at the bedside, rather than a conventional imaging suite, in critical care settings.
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