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…

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…

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…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Nicki Perkins EMAIL: Nicki.perkins@ctedreform.org PHONE: (203) 506-5799 New Haven, Connecticut – Today, March 29, 2017, the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) recommended that the state mastery test not be…

Connecticut’s 30 highest-need districts have been called the “Alliance Districts” since 2012. Each year, they receive increased state funding in exchange for producing annual district improvement plans. In total, the…

For close to half a century, the aim of scores of lawsuits about public schools across the country has been to require states to improve education for students by spending…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Nicki Perkins EMAIL: Nicki.perkins@ctedreform.org PHONE: (203) 506-5799 Hartford, Connecticut – Today, Jeffrey Villar, Executive Director of CCER, along with State Representative Susan Johnson, released the findings of a study…

By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas The Alliance District approach was created by lawmakers in 2012 to get the state more involved in improving chronically struggling districts. Now in its fifth year, this…

The focus of this report, commissioned by the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) and executed by a research team at the Neag School of Education of the University of…

By: Jeffrey Villar A recent story in the CT Mirror described a presentation to reporters a few weeks ago by the Connecticut Education Association (CEA), the largest teachers’ union, in which…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Nicki Perkins EMAIL: Nicki.perkins@ctedreform.org PHONE: (203) 506-5799 Hartford, Connecticut – Today, February 8, 2017, Governor Malloy’s budget address addressed, among other issues, changes to the state’s Education Cost Sharing…

By Skyler Frazer Staff Writer ‘Taken as a whole, this new formula is intended to bring greater accountability and flexibility in a system that hasn’t been making the grade,’ Malloy…