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Senate Bill 1
This bill establishes a state-managed Early Childhood Education Endowment fund, which will be used to:
- Support the expansion of early childhood education providers by adding tens of thousands of slots in Connecticut’s state-funded system available to enroll additional children;
- Expand opportunities that make early childhood education available at no cost to families enrolled in Early Start CT who earn up to $100,000 per year, and a sliding scale of no more than 7% for families earning more than $100,000 per year.
House Bill 5003
This bill creates the Early Care and Education Program Portal to provide families with a means of accessing real-time information about slot availability. The portal will:
- Allow families to submit information for resource and referral and enrollment purposes in early childhood programs;
- Provide the ability for the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood to manage payments to early childhood programs;
- House information on the availability of free or subsidized slots in each town and on a regional and statewide basis;
- Allow early childhood providers to enter slot availability and enrollment information into the portal;
- Allow families to apply for child care subsidies or other assistance, including Care 4 Kids.
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