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Friend of Public Education Award

CABE awards the Friend of Public Education Award to those who have worked to support public education in Connecticut and are not eligible for other CABE awards.

The CABE Friend of Public Education Award has been presented to:

1997
Dr. Theodore S. Sergi

1998
Patricia B. Luke 

1999
John Allison 

2000
Thomas B. Mooney, Esq.

2002
Loraine Aronson

2003
Robert Frahm

2004
Dr. James Comer 

2006
Betty Sternberg  

2007
George Coleman

2011
David Nee

2012
Dr. Virginia Seccombe

2013
Dr. Anne L. Bryant

2016
Karissa Niehoff
Dr. Joseph Cirasuolo

2018
Dianna R. Wentzell

2021
Charlene Russell Tucker
Dr. Marisha Juthani

2022
Robert Rader

2023
Charlene Russell Tucker

2024
Allan Taylor

2025
State Department of Education Staff