The Stimulus Gap

When Hartford (CT) Public High School opened last September, the 1,600-student school — where for years just one in three students graduated — was nearly unrecognizable. HPHS is now divided into four small, career-themed academies, each with its own principal and wing of the building.

Its part of a fledgling effort, just two years old, to turn around Hartfords public schools, and it seems to be working.

So why, with over half a billion dollars in federal education stimulus money flowing to Connecticut — money intended to promote reform and protect jobs — is Hartford Public High School laying off teachers?

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Education

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• hartford
• stimulus
• economic crisis
• education
• john merrow
• jim lehrer
• pbs
• the newshour
• learning matters
• high school
• uniforms
• schools
• arne duncan