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It has an active industry- led advisory board, engages students in project-based learning opportunities, and connects pupils with internships and mentoring. United Technologies and Pratt & Whitney fund the effort, she said. CCER's most influential work traces back to 2012 when it advocated for many of the proposals adopted in a large education- reform package, including creation of the Office of Early Childhood, which brought under one agency and expanded preschool resources, and the Alliance District Pro- gram, which allows for state intervention in the lowest-performing school districts. The law also more closely linked teach- er tenure to performance, Villar said. Building coalitions As the newly formed group begins to craft its next policy agenda and ini- tiatives, other organizations including Achieve Hartford, a business-backed education reform group, and the teacher's labor union, AFT Connecticut, are eager to hear their ideas or collaborate. "I don't think it's a secret we've fought over policy with both CBIA and CCER," said Jan Hochadel, the labor union president, citing charter school funding as an example. Nonetheless, she said she's eager to have conversations with the new group regarding issues like STEM (science, technology, engineer- ing and math) education and manufac- turing jobs. "There's enough areas where we do have some common ground, that I think we can find areas we can work on togeth- er for common good for the students and families in Connecticut," Hochadel said. Paul Holzer, executive director of Achieve Hartford, agrees, saying he's hoping to see results that will lead broadly to a stron- ger Connecticut workforce and economy. CBIA sits on the steering committee for Achieve Hartford's ALL IN! Coalition, which seeks to help Hartford youth com- plete public high school as they make their way toward college or the workforce. One action team's goal is to decrease by 10 per- cent "summer melt," which is the failure of graduates accepted to college in the spring to show up in the fall. "What we're doing at the city level, I want CBIA and CCER to do at the state level," Holzer said. "I look forward to exploring how we'll work with [them]." n INFO BOX Business Influence The CT Council for Education Reform helped influence passage of two education bills in 2017. House Bill 7205: Early literacy support for grades K-3; requires results of annual reading surveys provided to teachers to be shared with supervisors and used to help develop professional development. House Bill 7251: Establishes a reform district turnaround plan, enhancing training for boards of education for underperforming school districts. PDS has been meeting the needs of the construction industry since 1965. 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