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New college president is no stranger to crisis management

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Gregory Gray is familiar with crisis management.

Ten minutes on the job of leading a three-campus community college system just outside Los Angeles, his phone rang with an emergency message from the vice chancellor.

“We have to cut $16.5 million from our budget this week,” Gray recalled of the conversation. He was told he would need to shrink his budget by 8 percent.

“And I have been involved in that type of budget problem almost every day since that time.”

Gray is about to step into another storm in Connecticut come July 1 when he becomes the president of the state’s largest college system.

Gregory W. Gray, the new president of Connecticut's college system, has had to face budget crisis elsewhere.

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Hundreds of kindergarten students suspended from school

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It started with a report to the state's Office of the Child Advocate that a child had been expelled from preschool.

Jamey Bell, the child advocate, saw no reason why a child that young should be suspended, and wanted to know how widespread the problem was. She also had learned that a 7-year-old had been arrested while at school.

Compromise reached to provide oversight to university spending

By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Democratic Senators have decided they do want to hold hearings after all to vet the budgets of the state's public colleges and universities -- kind of.

Last week, a Republican proposal that would require officials from the University of Connecticut and the Board of Regents to come before lawmakers to explain their proposed budget before it is adopted was overwhelmingly defeated by Democratic legislators.

UConn President forms task force to 'explore all matters of civil behavior and speech'

By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Still recovering from a letter critical of the president of the University of Connecticut that went viral, officials at the state's flagship university have decided to form a task force to "explore all matters related to civil behavior and speech at the university."

(Some) Charter school applications released

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Looks like officials at the State Department of Education have changed their minds about not releasing the applications of those seeking to open new charter schools in the state.

Senate passes on adding oversight to state university spending

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Republican senators are calling for public hearings to vet the budgets of the state's public colleges and universities -- a move Democratic senators overwhelmingly voted against last week.

"It's just shedding light ... Public disclosure is a good thing," Sen. Len Fasano, R-North Haven, said last week before the Democratic-controlled Senate defeated the proposal.

Bill allowing students to opt out of animal dissection clears House

By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Connecticut may soon become the 15th state to forbid school districts from requiring students to participate or observe animal dissections.

The state House of Representatives Wednesday voted 131-8 in support of a bill that requires students be offered an alternative following their parents' signing off on them not participating in the dissection lesson.

Legislators take aim at controversial 'pay-to-play' sports fees

By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas Wednesday, May 8, 2013

With more Connecticut schools beginning to require students to pay a fee to join sports teams, legislators are seeking some insurances that the neediest students are not priced out.

The State House of Representatives voted 86-55 on Wednesday in favor of a bill that requires districts charging a fee to have a policy in place that exempts students from low-income families.

Deficit 'dire' for state college system

By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Millions of dollars saved by instituting a mid-year hiring freeze has not been enough to get the state's largest public college system out of the red, members of the Board of Regents' Finance Committee learned Tuesday.

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