Early Care and Early Learning

Home Visiting Programs are Preschool in Earliest Form

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Caleb Cantres-Maldonado was all of 6 weeks old and just stirring from a nap when his mother propped him up and pointed him in the direction of a picture book.

“Look what I have! See the book?” said Milenka St. Clair, a family support worker who visits Caleb’s Manassas home once a week. “It’s a drum! What else do you see?”

Caleb’s head flopped to one side. St. Clair tapped the page loudly, then moved it left and right and up and down. The baby’s eyes, still cloudy and a little crossed, followed her movements.

CT Early Care & Education Progress Report: 2012

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CT Early Care and Education Progress Report
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May, 2013
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This fourth annual early care progress report on Connecticut’s early care and education system finds that funding for early childhood has remained stagnant in recent years. However, there are signs of progress, including increased investment in the current fiscal year and improvements in some measures of quality.
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Sarah Esty and Cyd Oppenheimer, CT Voices for Children

Impact on Early Care and Education of the Appropriations Committee's Proposed Budget for FY 14-15

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CT Voices Issue Brief
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May, 2013
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This brief compares the early care and education budget proposals of the General Assembly's Appropriations Committee and the Governor. The Appropriations Committee budget essentially maintains the same funding levels as the Governor’s proposed budget for the vast majority of programs, including Care4Kids, State-Funded Centers, School Readiness Competitive School Districts, Head Start, and quality enhancement for these programs. It reduces funding slightly for School Readiness Programs in Priority School Districts in FY 15 and Birth-to-Three in FY 14 from the Governor’s proposed amounts for the same periods.
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Sarah Esty and Cyd Oppenheimer, CT Voices for Children

CT Association for Human Services KIDSCOUNT Report

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KIDSCOUNT Report
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April, 2013
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CAHS released its 2013 KidsCount Report on April 30. KIDSCOUNT is an annual look at important data points, over time, including population, race and ethnicity, child poverty, Care4Kids, Earned Income Tax Credit, Temporary Family Assistance (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Pre-K Experience, Mastery Test Scores in CT, CT Academic Performance Test Scores (CAPT), graduation rates, late or no prenatal care, low birth weight, infant mortality, HUSKY A & B (ages birth to 19), teen births, substantiated cases of abuse and/or neglect, child death and preventable teen deaths.
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CAHS
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