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Volume 20, Number 2
Friday, January 13, 2023
Planners deny West St. day care By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
SOUTHINGTON — Town planners decided against allowing a day care to open on West Street, citing concerns about traffic on the busy state road. The Learning Experience, an international day care and early childhood education company, wanted to build a 10,000-squarefoot day care along with a 5,000-square-foot play-
Student Zahira Galindo, 8, works in her third-grade class on Friday, Jan. 6 during a reading lesson at Israel Putnam Elementary School in Meriden. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
‘Right to Read’ legislation sparks concern in schools By Jessica Simms Record-Journal staff
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After passage of ‘Right to Read’ legislation in 2021, the State Department of Education has approved the implementation of specific reading curricula and programs for kindergarten
through third grade by July 1 of this year. However, many districts across the state are opting to submit a waiver to continue to offer their current curricula. “At this point, we have significant concerns about the state basically dictating
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what program we’ll use to teach students the curriculum,” said Jeff Solan, superintendent of Cheshire Public Schools. “I fully appreciate that the state can articulate what the standards should be, but not how we See Read, A2
ground area. The site, located at 1268 West St., was designed to hold about 150 children. A major point of contention for Planning and Zoning Commission members was drivers turning left out of the day care. That would require them to cross a lane of traffic before getting into the northbound lane on West Street. See Day care, A4
Developer planning for 11-building property By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
200 apartments as well as retail space. The Tolles family owns 41 acres at 1303, 1193 and 1177 West St. The land slopes down from the road toward wetlands to the east.
SOUTHINGTON — An 11building mixed-use development on West Street is under review by the town’s Conservation ComIn site plans submitted to mission. the town, Anthony ProperIt’s the next step for Texas- ties is proposing developbased Anthony Properties, ment that mostly avoids a development company looking to build more than
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