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Connecticut school district recruits Puerto Rican teachers to help meet bilingual needs

On Course

​​​​​​​US schools suffer from a critical shortage of bilingual teachers. But the public schools in Hartford, Connecticut, had a novel idea: recruit bilingual teachers from Puerto Rico with diverse teaching experience.

Tom Kania is working with a community co-sponsorship group and IRIS to welcome an Afghan refugee family of up to six. The Middletown apartment has been fully furnished by IRIS and is ready for the family when they arrive.

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Afghanistan
Free the beaches

A new book chronicles efforts to desegregate Connecticut’s beaches in the 1960s

Books

Feds open investigation into Jet Blue tarmac delay over the weekend (with video)

Global Politics
The World

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The World

Colorado and Connecticut primaries underway

Global Politics

Voters in Colorado and Connecticut head to the polls for primaries today. In Colorado, Democratic Senator Michael Bennet is facing a surprisingly hard primary battle. In Connecticut, Linda McMahon is hoping to win the Republican Senate nomination.