It’s always a source of great amusement back home when someone asks me to offer my opinions on schools. The truth is, if you ranked my family for accomplishments in education, I’d probably finish fifth or sixth.

I come from a family of educators, starting with my great-grandmother, Catherine Murphy, who came to this country unable to read or write her own name. But shortly after arriving in a little town in Connecticut, she was elected to the school board – because Catherine Murphy understood that the future belonged to education.

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January 8, 2007

Washington - On the fifth anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act, Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Representative Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) will unveil their bipartisan, bicameral legislation which would create rigorous, voluntary core standards for children in grades K-12 in math and science. The Standards to Provide Educational Achievement for Kids (SPEAK) Act will provide incentives for states to adopt these standards in an effort to ensure that all students, regardless of where they live, are taught to common, rigorous, education standards. Holding students to high standards will help to secure America’s competitive edge in the global marketplace.

June 9, 2006
WASHINGTON – Bridgeport’s public schools are set to receive more than $372,000 each year for the next three years, totaling over one million dollars in federal funds to improve and expand upon counseling services for Bridgeport youth, Senators Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman announced today. The funds will come from a grant awarded by the Department of Education’s Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Demonstration Program.

May 23, 2006
Senator Dodd today met with Liam McCarthy, a 13-year-old 8th grader at Middlesex Middle School in Darien, who won the Connecticut State National Geographic Geography Bee. Liam also represented Connecticut at the 2005 National Geographic Bee.