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Connecticut plans to pay off college debt for health care workers
(The Center Square) — Connecticut plans to pay off college loan debt for physicians, nurses and other medical workers in the state as part of a broader effort to ease chronic staffing shortages in the healthcare industry. The new program, unveiled by Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday, will offer up to $50,000 in student loan repayments to eligible health care workers who commit to practicing full-time in underserved communities in the state for at least two years. Part-time workers could get up to $12,500 in...
Connecticut’s roots are in the defense industry. Can its colleges truly divest?
On a sunny Thursday afternoon earlier this month, about 100 students gathered outside the Dodd Center for Human Rights on the University of Connecticut’s campus in Storrs for a press conference. While most of the school’s nearly 20,000 undergraduates were clearing out dorm rooms and posing for graduation photos in their caps and gowns, the […] The post Connecticut’s roots are in the defense industry. Can its colleges truly divest? appeared first on Rhode Island Current.
African American Studies Class Finishes First Year
After learning about everything from Africa’s Mali Empire to Black rebellion during Reconstruction to the history of slave codes and slave ships and convict leasing — and with coursework still to come on the Black Panther Party and the Black Arts Movement — Career High School senior Eliana Brito Castillo praised her school’s inaugural Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies class as opening her eyes to “a huge part of history that isn’t taught.”
Danbury teacher honored by Connecticut Education Association with prestigious award
UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Last weekend, at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center, the Connecticut Education Association honored Danbury teacher Lori Woodruff with its highest teaching award, the John McCormack Award for Teaching Excellence, according to a CEA release. Woodruff, a fourth-grade teacher at the Academy for International Studies Magnet School,...
Yale University graduates walk out on commencement over war in Gaza
Owen Decatur said he felt nervous in the minutes before he, along with his fellow Yale University graduates, planned on walking out of their own commencement ceremony. But those feelings faded as Decatur heard the chants nearby in support of the Palestinians. “I got to see that our Dean Lewis...
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