Attorney General George Jepsen acknowledged the Alliance's letter and says while his office does not question the potential benefits, as a public policy matter, rather, the motion was filed to ask the court to decide as a legal matter. 

The CT Early Childhood Alliance hand-delivered letters to the Governor's Office and Attorney General's Office, asking that the September motion filed by the state to excluse preschool from the CCJEF v. Rell case be withdrawn. Attached are the two letters, signed by 150 organizations and individuals, urging the preschool exclusion motion be withdrawn.

Early childhood advocates recently discovered a motion had been filed by the Attorney General's Office to limit the CCJEF v. Rell lawsuit to primary and secondary education only - starting with kindergarten.

The Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) recently released a list of 134 recommendations for education reform. Among them, access to preschool for all three year olds and all-day kindergarten. The full report can be found here.

The Alliance and its partners have issued a one-page document on the importance the early childhood sector plays on the job market.

What is Executive Order #11? It establishes an Office of Early Childhood within OPM.

Harriet Feldlaufer, the chief of the state's Bureau of Teaching and Learning, spoke to CT Public News Service regarding Connecticut's application for Race to the Top. Connecticut has taken many steps to help make its application competitive for the early learning funding.

As the deadline nears for the third round of Race to the Top funding, Connecticut has taken a number of steps to make itself competitive in this round, specifically geared at early learning. Maggie Adair authored a commentary piece in the Connecticut Mirror discussing some of those steps and the collaborative effort it took to get to this point.

Following the publication of an article on the status of the state's Race to the Top application, the Alliance submitted a letter to the editor of the Hartford Courant, discussing the steps Connecticut has taken to make the state competitive in the third round of funding.

With just two weeks to go before the Race to the Top application is due, the new SDE Commissioner, Governor Malloy's policy director and others spoke on the application at the October 5 State Board of Education meeting