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State and local officials announced Tuesday that a professional development program at the Connecticut Science Center will triple in size thanks to a donation from the Andrew J. and Joyce D. Mandell Family Foundation. The program currently enrolls about 500 teachers per year, but with the new funding it will expand to 1,500 per year and soon will begin awarding graduate-level college credit. The size of grant was not disclosed, but Connecticut Science Center President and CEO

There are 28,000 fewer manufacturing jobs in this state than there were four years ago, the lowest point since the recession began. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy spoke Friday at a celebration of the new program, which began in May. He told a crowd of well-wishers at the East Hartford college that the “the jobs are here. The jobs are coming in greater numbers. Are we going to be able to fill them with people from Connecticut?” — Goodwin, unlike Manchester and Asnuntuck, has not bought

The Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) released a new report that uses real-time labor market information data (web-based job advertisements) to analyze the U.S. manufacturing sector for the first half of 2011. Using Labor Insight, a web tool that aggregates data about web-advertised job openings, co-authors Lauren Gilchrist, Ken Poole and Mark White highlighted several important characteristics of anticipated manufacturing hiring: Manufacturers posted nearly

Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell proposed a lending program for small businesses, a sales tax exemption for materials and supplies used in renewable energy and green technology, and a loan forgiveness program for students. Excerpts from Gov. Jodi Rell, State of the State Address: Feb. 3, 2010: "I am calling for the creation of the new Connecticut Credit Consortium – a $500 million partnership between the state and Connecticut banks to substantially boost credit availability. I p