Connecticut Early Childhood Commissioner Beth Bye, a longtime champion for child care in the state, is stepping down. Bye has led the agency that she helped create as a state senator for more than 6 ...

The head of the state’s office responsible for overseeing the care of Connecticut’s youngest residents will retire Oct. 1 after more than six years in the position. Office of Early Childhood ...

Governor Ned Lamont signing two bills to expand childhood education in Connecticut at Friends Center for Children in New Haven on Tuesday June 18, 2024. He is flanked by state lawmakers and early ...

WEST HARTFORD — Hundreds of new spaces have been added to state-funded early childhood education programs serving families in 15 cities and towns through the newly established Early Childhood ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The commissioner of the Office of Early Childhood (OEC) is retiring from state service in October, according to an announcement by Gov. Ned Lamont (D). Beth Bye has led OEC ...

Connecticut child care centers will soon be able to have more 2-year-olds in classrooms, after Connecticut lawmakers this week gave the nod of approval to a regulation change that increases child care ...

TORRINGTON — Affordable childcare for all. It's a popular phrase. But the answers to this growing challenge for families nationwide continue to elude lawmakers and prompted Gov. Ned Lamont to seek a ...

State leaders met in Enfield on Thursday to announce an expansion of Connecticut’s early child care and child education programs. “With this announcement today, about 29% of Connecticut families with ...

Seventeen years since she and Beth Bye made history as Connecticut’s first gay couple to marry, popular history teacher and West Hartford town historian Dr. Tracey Wilson died Sunday. She was 70. More ...

“Raising the flag here is not just for the LGBTQ community, it’s really for the whole state community to say you belong here, we welcome you and Connecticut is an accepting place,” said Connecticut ...

The head of the state’s office responsible for overseeing the care of Connecticut’s youngest residents will retire Oct. 1 after more than six years in the position. Office of Early Childhood ...