Lesley Cosme Torres
Education ReporterLesley Cosme Torres is an Education Reporter at Connecticut Public. She reports on education inequities across the state and also focuses on Connecticut's Hispanic and Latino residents, with a particular focus on the Puerto Rican community. Her coverage spans from LGBTQ+ discrimination in K-12 schools, book ban attempts across CT, student mental health concerns, and more. She reports out of Fairfield county and Hartford.
Prior to her current position, Lesley was a Spanish misinformation reporter for the Miami Herald where she focused on misinformation targeting Latino communities.
She received her master's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley with an emphasis on investigative reporting and covering Latino communities in the U.S. Lesley earned her undergraduate degree at Penn State University where she was a reporter for the Centre Daily Times and the Daily Collegian.
Her reporting has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered, WLRN, and KQED.
Lesley can be reached at ltorres@ctpublic.org.
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About 60 school bus drivers in Meriden had been on strike since Friday. -
Teachers, community members and school administrators lined the sidewalks of Hartford’s Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School and cheered on students as they walked in for their first day. -
Amidst a shortage of language teachers, the Hartford Public School District is continuing to hire native Spanish speakers directly from the island. The district has over 50% of Latino students, many who identify as Puerto Rican. -
As a part of the Connecticut Summer at the Museum program, the Danbury Railway museum is offering free admission to children 18 and under, plus an accompanying adult. -
Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker said this year’s back-to-school theme is “Infinite Possibilities” to symbolize the infinite possibilities for students, teachers, families and Connecticut’s school communities. -
The cuts include eliminating the office of career services for all students, getting rid of cafeteria services for the entire campus, no office administrator support for multiple departments across campus, reductions for: the tutoring center, ESL services for students learning English and disability services. -
La Dra. Leslie Torres-Rodríguez, Superintendente de las escuelas públicas de Hartford, nació en Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico, y se mudó a Hartford a sus nueve años. -
Los exalumnos de Stone Academy, una escuela de enfermería con ánimo de lucro, disponen ahora de más información sobre qué opciones tienen para continuar sus estudios de enfermería. -
City officials voted to approve the scholarship in July. It would go into effect next spring and grant $1,000 to eligible graduating seniors from any Middletown high school. -
Torres-Rodriguez spent her formative years in the Hartford Public School system and always felt like one day she’d want to give back to her community.
