By Brian Zahn

In a meeting with the New Haven Register’s editorial board Friday, Villar said CCER’s principal legislative priority in 2017 is for greater focus in how Alliance Districts — the 30 lowest-performing districts in the state — use their state grant funds.

“A lack of disruption can actually improve results,” he said.

In a joint qualitative study with the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education, CCER looked at the improvement plans those 30 districts submitted to the state over four years and concluded that, because the state changed its requirements each year, the program’s goal of innovation was not being met in most districts.

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