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This section features reports, webinars, member spotlights, best practices, sample documents, and resources we believe can help grantmakers and foundations. Some of these items are only available to members. There are several different ways to search the resource library. Using the filters on the right side of this page, you can search by type of Resource Type, Topic, Funding Area, or Audience. For example, if you are looking for a Report, select Resource Type, then you can filter by Audience or Topic to refine the results.

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A View from the Classroom: What Teachers Can Tell Philanthropy About the Needs of Schools

Publication date: 
02/2020

What can over a million teachers tell us about the needs of schools? This report digs into the data from 1.8 million teacher requests on the crowdfunding site DonorsChoose to tell the story from inside today's classrooms. We feel this data provides a roadmap for funders seeking to support students directly, but also for funders seeking broader reform of U.S. education policy and systems.

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CCP Members
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Education

Design Principles for a New School Funding Formula in Connecticut

Publication date: 
01/2017

NEW HAVEN, CT -- A number of Connecticut’s leading education organizations -- the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE), the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS), the Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS), the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) have agreed to a set of design principles for the development of a new school funding formula that supports student learning. These guiding principles were developed with Professor Ken Wong, of Brown University and with the assistance of the independent, nonpartisan Connecticut School Finance Project.

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CCP Members
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Education

Funding Formula Guidebook

Publication date: 
11/2016

The Connecticut School Finance Project's new release, Funding Formula Guidebook, is a comprehensive guidebook that examines the components of an equitable school finance system and how Connecticut can achieve fair funding for its more than 540,000 public school students.

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Guide
Audience: 
CCP Members
Funding Area: 
Education
Equity and Inclusion

Framework for Connecticut's Statewide System of Early Childhood State and Local Partnerships

Publication date: 
10/2016

The Early Childhood Funder Collaborative, a project of the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, developed this report for the purpose of developing recommendations for an infrastructure connecting state child-serving agencies with local communities and communities with each other.

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Report
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CCP Members
Topic(s): 
Logic Models/Theories of Change
Funding Area: 
Early Childhood
Education

What Early Learning in ESSA Can Look Like for States and Districts

Publication date: 
05/2016

First Five Years Fund (FFYF) has developed this resource to serve as a helpful tool for states writing innovative ESSA early learning plans. This shareable, downloadable resource highlights the law’s express early learning provisions, as well as others that could strengthen and expand early childhood initiatives at the state and local level.

 
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Toolkit
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CCP Members
Policy Makers
Funding Area: 
Early Childhood
Education

Connecticut Students’ Test Results

Publication date: 
09/2015
Compare Connecticut students' test results with those from other states. So far, 10 of the 17 states whose students took the Smarter Balanced Assessments have released their results. Although most states opted not to create a central place to compare scores, TrendCT decided make one to see how Connecticut compares.
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Data
Research
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CCP Members
Funding Area: 
Education

English Language Learners Report

Publication date: 
07/2015
In 2014–15, the Latino Endowment Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving focused on the issue of English Language Learners (ELL)* through a series of forums. This report examines what they learned and highlights the opportunities and the challenges of increased cultural and linguistic diversity.

Connecticut School Integration: Moving Forward as the Northeast Retreats

Publication date: 
04/2015
Looking at the grim picture of central city Hartford and Bridgeport when desegregation efforts began and considering the odds against the creation of new models in a time when civil rights were shrinking, what has been accomplished in Connecticut is a victory over great odds. It is also an example of the way there can be change that expands the possibilities for all and enriches the communities.
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Report
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CCP Members
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Civil Rights, Social Action
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