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Linda McMahon is expected to succeed Miguel Cardona as the head of the U.S. Department of Education, according to CNN. If confirmed, McMahon would take the helm of a department that President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on eliminating and could oversee a major overhaul.

Almost every public school student in Connecticut will feel some type of impact from the expiration of federal pandemic relief funding.

School superintendents in Connecticut are concerned about how students will be impacted by the loss of special COVID-19 related federal funding.

New Connecticut legislation passed in 2023 requires that kindergarten students be 5 years old by Sept. 1, instead of the previous cutoff of Jan. 1.