Education

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.

Allan Taylor has again become the chair of the state board charged with implementing the governor's statewide education reforms.

Taylor was nominated to the State Board of Education and named chairman by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The nomination was approved by the General Assembly last month.

The 11-person State Board Education has recently experienced some turnover, which left the board at their meeting last month with the minimum number of members required to convene a meeting and temporarily without a chair and vice chair.

As seven groups vying to open new charter schools in the state wait to find out if the State Board of Education will approve their applications so they can open, a child advocacy group is calling on the board to release the applications.

"Without access to the application documents, the public will not be able to review [the] aspects of the charter school applications. We request that the State Department of Education release the applications for new charter schools," Senior Policy Fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children Robert Cotto Jr. said to the state board Wednesday.