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• Gov. Malloy, AG Jepsen: Connecticut Joins Lawsuit to Protect State Taxpayers from Drastic Cut in State and Local Tax Deduction

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Attorney General George Jepsen today announced that Connecticut has joined a lawsuit to protect the state and its taxpayers from Washington’s drastic curtailment of the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction.

• Gov. Malloy Signs Law Requiring Holocaust and Genocide Education in Connecticut Schools

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he has signed into law legislation that adds Holocaust and genocide education and awareness to the required courses of study for public schools in Connecticut.

• Gov. Malloy Nominates Justice Robinson as Chief Justice and Judge Ecker as Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he is nominating Associate Justice Richard Allan Robinson of Stamford to serve as Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. In addition, the Governor announced that he is nominating Superior Court Judge Steven D. Ecker of New Haven to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

• Gov. Malloy Applauds Finance Committee’s Approval of Legislation to Help Stabilize Transportation Funding

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy released the following statement regarding the vote this afternoon in the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee approving legislation that will help stabilize the state’s transportation funding in the long-term. The proposal, House Bill 5046, also received a favorable vote by the Transportation Committee on March 22.

• Gov. Malloy Directs Flags to Return to Full-Staff on Friday Evening

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that U.S. and state flags should return to full-staff at sunset on the evening of Friday, April 6, 2018. Flags are currently flying at half-staff across the state in honor of Connecticut State Police Trooper First Class Kevin M. Miller, who was killed in a motor vehicle accident while on duty last week. Governor Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman will be in attendance at the funeral services for Trooper First Class Miller, which are being held on Friday morning at Rentschler Field in East Hartford.

• Gov. Malloy: New Report Ranks Connecticut Among Top States in Nation for its Progress in Responding to the Opioid Crisis

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the National Safety Council has awarded Connecticut its highest mark for the state’s response to the opioid crisis in a new report released this week. Connecticut is one of only thirteen states, along with the District of Columbia, to receive the uppermost mark of “Improving” from the organization, indicating that the state has implemented comprehensive, proven actions to eliminate opioid overdoses and help protect its residents.

• Gov. Malloy Announces Magnetic Technologies to Relocate to Connecticut from Massachusetts

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that Magnetic Technologies Ltd., an advanced manufacturer of high-quality, magnetic brakes for the wire and cable industry, is relocating to Putnam, Connecticut, where the company will build its new headquarters. The $5.26 million project will create 40 jobs over the next five years.

• Gov. Malloy Nominates Two Connecticut Residents to Fill Judicial Vacancies on the Superior Court

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he is nominating two state residents to fill vacancies for judgeships on the Connecticut Superior Court. Additional retirements and other changes in recent days allow the Malloy administration to make these supplemental nominations while still maintaining the Governor’s original stated commitment to leave 21 vacancies on the Superior Court by the end of his term in January 2019. Currently, the number of Superior Court judges serving in the Judicial Branch is at its lowest point in more than a decade.

• Gov. Malloy Announces Increase in Graduation Rates for Seventh Consecutive Year

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and State Department of Education (SDE) Commissioner Dianna R. Wentzell today announced that graduation rates in the state reached a record high of 87.9 percent in 2017, marking an increase for the seventh consecutive year. Also on the rise are the graduation rates for school districts that participate in Connecticut’s Alliance District program. The graduation rates for the Alliance Districts reached 80.5 percent in 2017, up from 71.2 percent in 2011. The Educational Reform Districts, a subset of the Alliance Districts and among the lowest performing in the state, showed a 12.1 point gain since 2011, up to 75.7 percent in 2017.

• Gov. Malloy: State’s Results on National Assessment Shows Reduction in Some Achievement Gaps Since 2011

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and State Department of Education Commissioner Dianna R. Wentzell today announced that the State of Connecticut has been making progress in its efforts to reduce achievement gaps, according to the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) – a report known as the “Nation’s Report Card” created by the National Center for Education Statistics.

• Gov. Malloy Signs Legislation Permitting Access to Financial Aid for Connecticut Dreamers

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today signed into law legislation allowing undocumented students who attend Connecticut public colleges and universities the opportunity to qualify for the state’s system of financial aid. Previously, state law denied access to the financial aid system for these students, despite the fact that they were required to pay into it through their existing tuition.

• Gov. Malloy and Lt. Gov. Wyman Highlight Equal Pay Day, Call for Legislative Action

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman today highlighted Equal Pay Day and called on the legislature to pass the Governor’s pay equity proposal, Senate Bill 15, An Act Concerning Fair and Equal Pay for Equal Work. Equal Pay Day, which falls on April 10, marks how far an average woman must work into the year in order to equal an average man’s earnings in the previous year.

• Gov. Malloy Breaks Ground on Groton Water Treatment Renovations, Calls for Passage of State Water Plan

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy, joined by Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Raul Pino, federal and local officials, and representatives of Groton Utilities, today broke ground on a $54 million comprehensive rehabilitation of an 80-year-old water treatment plant that provides drinking water supply to 45,000 people along with commercial and industrial customers in southeastern Connecticut, including General Dynamics Electric Boat and Pfizer’s global research headquarters. The project, which is expected to take three years, is funded entirely through Connecticut’s Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, including a state grant of $15 million and low-interest loans of $39 million.

• Gov. Malloy Announces Launch of Program in Connecticut Helping Veterans Seek Careers as Teachers

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES) – a component of the U.S. Department of Defense – has awarded the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) a $1.1 million federal grant to initiate and administer the Troops for Teachers program in Connecticut.

• Gov. Malloy: Federal Grant Will Aid New England States in Creating Coalition to Collaborate on Defense-Related Business

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced today that Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island have received a joint grant of $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Economic Adjustment to create an organization that will be known as the New England Regional Defense Industry Collaboration.