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Shelly Sindland of Fox 61 interviewed Ann Pratt, Senator Donald Williams and a parent for her piece on the Alliance's Advocacy Day 2010 at the Capitol on March 3.

CT Valley early educators kicked off the "Read Across America" initiative on Feb. 25, including a breakfast prior to fanning out to read at centers around the Ansonia area. The CT Early Childhood Alliance helped organize the effort.

ReminderNews reporter Tom Phelan covered the Feb. 6 Early Care and Education Summit in Enfield. The article features Rep. Karen Jarmoc, David Nee of the Graustein Memorial Fund and Ann Pratt, the executive director of the CT Early Childhood Alliance. The article ran in the 2/16/2010 edition of the Enfield edition of the ReminderNews.

The Bloomfield Journal ran a photo and a submitted piece on the visit to BELC by Sen. Jonathan Harris in January 2010. The piece ran on Feb. 5, 2010

The People's Press, Inc. of Meriden/Wallingford ran a photo and short write-up on Rep. Elizabeth Esty's visit to Wallingford Community Day Care Center in January 2010. It ran in the paper's Feb. 2010 edition.

CT Early Childhood Alliance used its first story with CT Public News Service to highlight the Feb. 6 Early Care and Education Summit in Enfield. The event, hosted by state Rep. Karen Jarmoc, the CT Early Childhood Alliance and Enfield KITE, featured Ann Pratt of the Alliance and David Nee of the Graustein Memorial Fund as speakers. The event gave early childhood advocates a chance to pool resources and discuss early care and education.

Senator Jonathan Harris (5th District) visited the Bloomfield Early Learning Center on Jan. 15. The event was organized by the CT Early Childhood Alliance and a photo and write-up about the visit was featured in the Hartford Courant's I-Towns section.

This is the third letter that ran in the Torrington Register Citizen in two days; following the Dec. 14 press conference in Hartford. All three came from parents at Torrington Child Care Center. The third letter urges lawmakers not to balance the budget on the backs of children and that cuts to these programs not only impact child, but families and the workforce.

Several members of the CT Early Childhood Alliance were featured in an article that ran Dec. 24, 2009 in the Hartford Courant on the town's early childhood blueprint plan.

Alliance co-chair Merrill Gay was interviewed about one of the potential initiatives of the New Britain Early Childhood Blueprint. The idea is to limit the amount of juice and soda children have access to, helping reduce childhood obesity rates in town.