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In 2011, through our ‘Get Smart Connecticut’ campaign, we are proposing two bold solutions to Connecticut’s education crisis: fix our outdated, illogical school funding system so we can stop wasting precious education dollars, and end last-in first-out hiring practices to make sure that when teacher layoffs happen, they do the least damage possible to students.

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• ConnCAN’s public and private leadership was instrumental in the passage of Connecticut’s education reform legislation. While Connecticut was not among Race to the Top’s winners, Public Act No. 10-111 ties teacher evaluations to student achievement, and the State Board of Education adopted Common Core State Standards.
• The “Vote for Ed!” campaign presented ConnCAN’s idealized candidate for governor: Ed U. Cation. Through a Gubernatorial Candidates Forum, a voter survey, television ads, yard signs, and bumper magnets, ConnCAN’s education policy priorities became some of the most intensely debated issues in the governor’s race.
• ConnCAN’s 2009 investigative report, “The Tab,” was used as the blueprint for a ConnCAN school finance bill that did not meet success in the legislature, but compelled the state board to publicly acknowledge Connecticut’s current school finance system is broken. This led to formation of an ad hoc committee tasked with reporting solutions to the next governor. ConnCAN is now assembling a broad coalition of supporters for school finance reform.

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Patrick Riccards
CEO

Media Contact: Jessica Bloom
(203) 772-4017 x 25

Twitter: @conncan