Voices from the Capitol

The Community First Coalition launched its “Care Not Cops” campaign last month, continuing longstanding efforts to remove SROs from public schools. A coalition of Connecticut youth-led organizations has recently launched a campaign to remove police from public schools and to change the nature of...

Psychologist Lauren Ruth explains how students of color are disproportionately harmed when schools use zero-tolerance disciplinary policies. Ruth is director of research and policy with Connecticut Voices for Children, which published a report last year on the so-called school-to-prison pipeline in ...

Connecticut families that rely chiefly on minimum-wage jobs could effectively lose more than half of the pay hikes they will receive by mid-2023 due to the potential loss of state benefits, according to a new report from Connecticut Voices for Children. The New Haven-based policy think-tank is als...

As COVID-19 spread like brushfire through New Haven, Tennille Smalls was faced with a weighty decision: whether or not to keep her daycare open. After all, infants and toddlers touch everything and constantly put toys in their mouths. Most of them don’t yet understand how to sneeze or cough into a...

Voices' opposition to a bill preventing disaggregation of study data by ethnicity was cited ...

Article cited Voices' testimony on early care legislation ...

News story and interview on Voices' research about school resource officers ...

Story about Voices' report on higher arrest rates for Latino students at schools with school resource officers ...

A report about the recruitment of teachers of color that quotes Camara Stokes Hudson, Associate Policy Fellow at Voices.  ...

An article about early childhood that quotes our 2012 report on quality ratings.  ...