Gov. Malloy and state officials must see poverty as prime hindrance to closing school achievement gap - Courant.com: "Efforts by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform to close the achievement gap between Connecticut's poor and more affluent students have brought ill-advised legislation that will have little impact and will do more to discourage than to support the many teachers who are dedicated to educating, guiding and nurturing students.
To effectively address Connecticut's achievement gap requires first acknowledging its far-reaching and blatantly obvious root cause: poverty.
Despite extensive evidence collected and published by the state, the governor and the reform council are myopically devoting an inordinate amount of time and energy addressing what they believe to be the problems of teacher evaluation, licensing and tenure. The very real and critical issues associated with poverty must first be addressed.
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