Employment & Education

Promoting the well-being of Connecticut children, youth, and families

Our employment work focuses on:

Learn more about employment and other family economic security issues.

Our early care work is focused on:

Ensuring all young children have access to high-quality care-giving environments that are developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, and that recognize parents as children’s first and most important teachers
Creating an integrated state-wide system of early care and education that will lead to improved overall quality of state-subsidized programs, greater access for children and families, better data collection and analysis and, accordingly, wiser investments

Learn more about early care issues and other related K-12 readiness issues.

Our college and career readiness work seeks to:

Inform the creation of an equitable public education policy and financing structure
Keep children in schools, where they learn best, by reducing truancy, exclusionary discipline, and dropout
Combine efforts to support children in school and address inequities in family well-being
Promote a rich, broad curriculum for all children

Learn more about college & career readiness issues and other related K-12 issues.