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Quickly and easily find CMT and CAPT scores and make statewide, district and ERG comparisons using this website. The site allows users to view the results by gender, race, free/reduced price lunch eligibility, special education, ESL/Bilingual education status and content area. Search results are graphically presented in static and interactive formats and are easy to use.

The census website offers all of the information collected through the short and long forms of the 2000 census. Information is presented by state, city or town, census tract and, in some cases, by block level. Data can be compared and downloaded into excel spreadsheets and some data sets can be mapped directly on the site. An introduction to the materials available on the census is available by clicking on the link below.

The Early Childhood DataCONNections project at CHDI collects state and local data on key factors of child well-being including health, safety and welfare, family economic stability and early care and education. On the CHDI site, users can access individual profiles for each of Connecticut's 169 cities and towns on these data measures.

Community Mediation, with support from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund provides grants and technical assistance to communities wishing to hold a Community Conversation About Education. These local conversations are community-wide discussions that examine issues affecting children from preschool through high school (K-12). The goal of the conversations is to improve outcomes for children from birth through age eight by involving more citizens in defining and supporting community priorities.
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Online access to individual profiles for each of Connecticut's 169 cities and towns on key factors of child well-being including health, safety and welfare, family economic stability and early care and education.
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In 1990, the Connecticut General Assembly passed an act requiring each board of education to submit a strategic school profile report for each school under its jurisdiction and for the school district as a whole. The profile reports contain information on measures of student needs, school resources, and student and school performance. These data are available online from the Connecticut State Department of Education, where they are available by school and by district.

Connecticut Voices for Children has released fact sheets, reports and primers on a variety of topics related to early care and education.

This website has a lengthy section on survey design with tips on everything from how to choose the type of survey to administer to question formatting. This web site also has a link to a sample size calculator that will tell you the number of individuals you need to include in your sample for it to be statistically sound.

DataHaven is an interactive, Internet-based data resource which includes extensive economic, social, and health data on 22 towns in South Central Connecticut. Data at the site are stored in a centralized database that can be manipulated in a variety of ways. The site also provides downloadable community studies and reports.

DataPlace is a user friendly resource for accessing and mapping Census and other community data developed by Knowledgeplex. The site provides extensive data related to housing and community development.

KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States. KIDS COUNT provides a state-by-state statistical portrait of the educational, health, and economic conditions of American children.

The National Center for Children in Poverty is a public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. NCCP provides data and research on child care and early education trends by state, as well as reports and fact sheets on a variety of early learning topics.

Pre-K Now is a public education and advocacy organization that advances high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten for all three and four year olds. Pre-K Now provides policy information and research specifically targeted for Pre-K advocates, policymakers, the media, business and community leaders, educators and families.

The Study Circles Resource Center is dedicated to finding ways for people to engage in dialogue and problem solving on critical social and political issues. Study circles bring together educators, students, and citizens from different backgrounds to talk in small groups about what matters to them in education, what challenges face the educational system, and what the community can do to address those challenges in productive ways.

The NIEER website provides balanced data and research on early childhood education nationally and by state. The State Data Bank section of the site provides data profiles compiled from census data, Head Start data, Quality Counts and other sources. The Data Bank is also a source for articles and useful links.