Making a Difference in Connecticut: The Role of Advocacy in Closing the Achievement Gap

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The Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to closing the achievement gap, has a successful track record of advocating for state-policy reforms and partnering with districts to implement these reforms. Learn about ConnCAN’s three-pronged approach for crafting effective policy change through lobbying, building a movement, and forging strategic partnerships with organizations across the state. And learn from ConnCAN and representatives of the Hartford schools about their unique partnership aimed at building and maintaining a supportive civic climate for Hartford’s aggressive school-turnaround plan.

Lourdes Fonseca, community relations associate, and Tori Truscheit, research manager, ConnCAN, New Haven, Conn.;
Victor De La Paz, assistant superintendent, Hartford Board of Education, Hartford, Conn.