Boston Fed and CT community foundations fight for inclusive recovery
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
Dr. Michael Wolter remotely runs a Professional Skills Academy at Goodwin University in East Hartford. “You want to find a mentor at a workplace,” Dr. Wolter said. The workshop is a 4-week program.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down, cities in Connecticut and across the country were coming back, but unevenly. Typically, downtowns were prospering, but some impoverished neighborhoods, usually home to communities of color, still struggled.
The pandemic, as has been widelyreported, made things worse, exposing and aggravating racial disparities in employment and wealth, health care, housing and criminal justice. The challenges of responding to this urgent plight were described in a 12-part CT Mirror series in 2020.
Send educational funds where they are needed most
Yehyun Kim :: CTMirror
A classroom in suburban Farmington. Students here have had the opportunity to return to school in-person, full-time for months.
As a widowed mother of two wonderful boys, a senior at East Hartford High School and a sixth grader at Sunset Ridge Middle School in East Hartford, I support SB 948 An Act Addressing Education Funding and Racial Equity in Connecticut. I work as a Pre-K, paraeducator at the Early Childhood Learning Center, also part of East Hartford Public Schools.
In 2015, I moved from Puerto Rico to East Hartford seeking better medical attention for my son, who was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Though medical resources and family support dictated where we would live, the choices I had for my children’s education were disconcerting. This provoked a great deal of distress because I did not understand how the school districts were set up. Having them being categorized by “hearsay”