Senate & House Republicans Offer Plan to Restore Nearly $20 Million in Education Funding, Eliminate FY 2017 Budget Deficit
The proposal would allow the state to restore $18.9 million in Education Cost Sharing funding that was cut by the administration in December and also close the current budget deficit of $11.9 million as estimated by the Office of Fiscal Analysis.
Quinnipiac University School of Education professor to present program on ‘The School to Prison Pipeline’ Feb. 7
Hernandez will address disproportionality and how school discipline policies facilitate the school-to-prison pipeline for students of color. She also will discuss how current and future educators can work as allies and advocates to disrupt the pipeline.
Quinnipiac University accounting students to offer free income tax assistance at the Keefe Center
The sessions will take place at the Keefe Community Center, 11 Pine St., Hamden, from 3-8 p.m. every Thursday, starting Feb. 2 and running through April 13.
Ray Andrewsen, general manager of WQUN-AM 1220, to receive Hamden’s Citizen of the Year Award
A native of North Haven, Andrewsen has a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University. He has worked at WQUN for 20 years, during which time he has conducted thousands of interviews with community leaders and people of interest.
Three Freedom Riders will discuss their faith and activism Jan. 30 at Quinnipiac University
Joan C. Browning, Dion Diamond and the Rev. Reginald M. Green will discuss what it was like to be among the 436 Freedom Riders who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and the following years to challenge the nonenforcement of Supreme Court rulings that segregated buses were unconstitutional.
Yaccarino: 2017 Legislative Session
I am eager to get to work and honored to once again serve all the people of North Haven.
Quinnipiac University medical school students to gather today to call U.S. senators to block repeal of the Affordable Care Act
The students will gather in the Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, MNH 204, on Quinnipiac’s North Haven Campus, 370 Bassett Road, to activate a Doctors for America phone bank.
Quinnipiac University to host biobusiness forum
The program, which runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., is free and open the public.
Opening Day Remarks from Senate Republican President Pro Tempore Len Fasano
Sen. Fasano was reelected to represent the 34th Senate District including the towns of Durham, East Haven, North Haven and Wallingford.
Margot Lee Shetterly, author of ‘Hidden Figures,’ to deliver Black History Month Lecture at Quinnipiac University Feb. 8
Shetterly will share the story of how black “human computers” used math to change their own lives — and America’s future.
Rep. Yaccarino Assigned to Legislative Committees
Yaccarino took the oath of office and was sworn in by Secretary of State Denise Merrill in the State House Chamber.
“Breakfast with the Legislators”
This year’s Breakfast will be held Saturday, January 21, 9:00-11:00 am, Whitney Center, 200 Leeder Hill Drive, Hamden.