By Edwin J. Viera "A pushback on the extreme Project 2025 agenda of privatizing public education, of the rise of vouchers, and of the...

Read our testimony in support of H.B. 5212 here.

After many ups and downs, and a nearly 10-hour filibuster in the Senate last night, a bill concept that ERN CT has worked on for five...

Passed last night, HB 6880 establishes a task force to study the per pupil equity of funding the teachers’ retirement system. The task...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 24, 2023 CONTACT: Amy Dowell | Amy@edreformnow.org House Passes Bill on Per Pupil Teacher Pension Inequities...

Co-Chairs McCrory and Currey, Vice Chairs Winfield and Leeper, Ranking Members Berthel and McCarty and members of the Education...

Testimony Before the Education Committee March 8, 2023 Amy Dowell, Executive Director Co-Chairs McCrory and Currey, Vice Chairs Winfield...

Currently the state funds the entire cost of teacher pensions, a cost that amounts to a quarter of all state education spending annually....

Testimony Before the Education Committee February 3, 2023 Amy Dowell, Executive Director, Education Reform Now CT Co-chairs McCrory and...

Recent research from ERN Connecticut and Equable Institute found startling resource inequities in how teacher pensions are funded....

Testimony Before the Education Committee March 4, 2022 Amy Dowell, State Director, Education Reform Now CT Co-chairs McCrory and Sanchez,...

Testimony Before the Appropriations Committee February 17, 2022 Amy Dowell, State Director, Education Reform Now CT Re: HB 5037: An Act...

“But we have a surplus of resources here in Connecticut right now, and we have still quite a bit of [federal pandemic relief] funding to...

Our 2022 policy priorities are designed to promote great educational opportunities and achievement for all by increasing equity,...

By Scott Benjamin Harding said that he disagrees with a plan by the Connecticut chapter of Education Reform Now, which according to CT...

"....That means wealthy suburban districts can spend far more on education, pay much higher teacher salaries, and recruit and retain the...

"....That means wealthy suburban districts can spend far more on education, pay much higher teacher salaries, and recruit and retain the...

"....That means wealthy suburban districts can spend far more on education, pay much higher teacher salaries, and recruit and retain the...

"For decades, the state of Connecticut has allocated more dollars to highly affluent, less diverse school districts — putting districts...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: 12/14/2021 CONTACTS: amy@edreformnow.org | pr@equable.org Report Finds CT’s Teacher Pension System Subsidizes...

"For decades, the state of Connecticut has allocated more dollars to highly affluent, less diverse school districts — putting districts...

"For decades, the state of Connecticut has allocated more dollars to highly affluent, less diverse school districts — putting districts...