With all eyes on the impending start of the school year, national education leaders who have criticized plans to reopen classes in-person praised a new effort by Yale University to ease the anxiety on teachers and anyone else who works in schools.
When, along with members of the editorial board, I sat down with Barbara Dalio in early March, it was likely a first for me. I don't think I had ever interviewed a billionaire.
It was a grim moment late on the morning of May 19, when Gov. Ned Lamont and Dalio Philanthropies declared the demise of the partnership they had formed a year earlier with high hopes of helping troubled youths in Connecticut’s cities.
Two months apart, without knowing they were doing so, Ray and Barbara Dalio described how they helped each other understand poverty in Connecticut, the richest state, where they are comfortably the richest residents.