A NEW SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS

Hartford was for a long time the lowest performing school district in the state and so our task revolved around closing the achievement gap for our students.

We made great progress in that over the last two years.

We’ve seen most of our schools come up to much higher achievement levels; at the same time we have been successful in opening new schools that have attracted parents from all over the city and the region that are also high achieving. So if you look at the portfolio of schools that we offer to the public today, it’s a much higher achieving portfolio and our students are doing much better.

The kind of achievement that you see at our schools, what are students can accomplish, is very reflective of our system as a whole and the fact that when our students are provided the opportunity to attend a good school, they will excel the same as any child in the nation.

I am so excited to have our students back in school. We are looking forward to another great year and another year of gains and closing the achievement gap further for the children of Hartford.

I want to thank all the parents who have been so supportive in all of our schools. We had our children on time, in uniform and ready to learn. Our families have just been incredibly supportive of their schools and their students getting everything out of the education being offered.