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Vol. 5, Issue No.  9
                         February 21,  2013
New Blood, Familiar Challenges
Student Representatives, Adult Leaders, Financial Pressures
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Minnie Lesperance of the Culinary Arts Academy at Weaver High School (at left) and Jocelyn Arroyo of Pathways to Technology Magnet High School (at right) are the Student Representatives elected by the citywide Student Senate to the Hartford Board of Education. Tiffany Mitchell of the Law and Government Academy (center) is President of that Senate.

The Hartford Board of Education welcomed two high school student representatives to its body and approved three newly-named school leaders Tuesday night, but there also were some familiar challenges at hand.

A Montessori Movement? 
Parents Not So Happy with Ambiguity

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Montessori School parents from the Annie Fisher and Moylan programs were counting on the expansion of the program to the 7th grade this fall. Now that the necessary State funding has delayed final planning, they don't like it.

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A two-part discussion of the role of charter schools and vouchers in education, with researcher David Figlio and Education Week reporter Sean Cavanagh, tonight  at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. 
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