Press Releases

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• 1/13/2025 Connecticut's New Certification Board Begins Work to Strengthen Educator Preparation and Certification

• 7/24/2025 State Releases Bridgeport Public Schools Forensic Audit

  Findings identify no misappropriation of funds and provide recommendations for long-term fiscal stability

• 6/17/2025 Commissioner Russell-Tucker Launches 4th Annual PK-12 School Staff Appreciation Digital Backpack Program

• 5/7/2025 Lieutenant Governor Bysiewicz and Education Commissioner Russell-Tucker Encourage CT Businesses to Participate in Fourth Annual School Staff Appreciation Digital Backpack Program

• 2/26/2025 Open Letter to the Bridgeport Public Schools Community

• 4/16/2025 Connecticut Reaffirms Committment to Creating Education Opportunities for All Children

• 5/11/2020 Lt. Governor Bysiewicz Launches COVID-19 Coding Computing Challenge for 3-12 Graders

• 10/29/2020 Dashboard for Public Reporting of COVID-19 School Cases Launched on Connecticut Open Data Portal

• 6/2/2020 Moving Forward Together

• 11/4/2020 CT State Department of Education: Preliminary Data Indicates Three Percent Decline in Statewide Student Enrollment for 2020-21

• 7/21/2020 CSDE, CT Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and CT Association of School Based Health Centers Highlight Critical Link Between In-Person School and Children’s Well-Being and Access to Health Care

• 3/25/2022 CSDE Releases Comprehensive Condition of Education Report​

  Report shows the impacts of the pandemic on an increasingly diverse student and staff population

• 10/31/2020 Lt. Governor Bysiewicz and Education Commissioner Cardona Release Results of the 2020 Connecticut Student Mock Election

• 8/14/2020 Dalio Education, Connecticut State Department of Education, Teachers Unions, Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents and Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence Announce New Social and Emotional Learning Course to Support Connecticut School Staff

• 4/23/2020 Education Commissioner Cardona Announces Irene Parisi Joins Agency as Chief Academic Officer