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Hardball with Chris Matthews: Michelle D. Bernard discusses Obama addressing Trayvon Martin shooting.

The AP’s Liz Sidoti, The Bernard Center for Women’s Michelle Bernard and Democratic strategist Steve McMahon join The Daily Rundown to discuss.

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By Kathleen Megan, The Hartford Courant At an education rally Wednesday on the steps of the state Capitol, Michelle Rhee, founder of an activist education reform group, said she had two “cornerstones” when she served as chancellor of schools inWashington, D.C. “I was going to send my own two kids to the school district I was running,” […]

Michell March 9, 2012 Michelle Bernard, Kelly Williams-Bolar, Michelle Rhee Join CT Education Rally HARTFORD — Connecticut has one of the highest achievement gaps in the country between low-income and affluent students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. This is unacceptable. To raise awareness and get parents involved, the Connecticut Parents Union and […]

by Natalie Missakian, CT News Junkie Kelley Williams-Bolar first met Connecticut Parents Union founder Gwen Samuel when she was fighting felony charges in Ohio for stealing an education. Fed up with the conditions in her children’s low-performing school in Akron, Ohio, Williams-Bolar used her father’s address to enroll her children in a better district where […]

By Hanna Rosin, Slate When headlines announced last weekend that the “Obama Campaign Plans Big Effort to Court Women,” they generally called a couple of particular types of women to mind. Despite the dating metaphors (woo, court, win over) she is not generally available for romance. One type, familiar from past elections, is a variation on […]

From Republican-American HARTFORD — Connecticut Parents Union is rallying parents at the Capitol on Wednesday to claim a greater voice in the ongoing debate on education reform. The event begins at noon with a forum on education reform featuring community leaders and lawmakers at Grace Lutheran Church in Hartford, followed by a rally from 3 […]

From The New Yorker Will female voters flee the Republican Party over its attacks on reproductive rights? In Comment this week, Margaret Talbot writes about the problems with using birth control to attack President Obama: It’s tempting to say that the timing of these events—and the eighty new restrictions on abortion rights that were enacted […]