Overview
ACES primary purpose is to
encourage, develop and offer educational programs and services, which
can be provided more effectively, and efficiently by a cooperative rather
than by local districts operating independently.
The three main missions for this purpose are to:
• develop and offer programs that provide quality (direct services) for children,
youth, and adults.
• develop and provide quality (professional development and support services)
to member school districts.
• develop and provide sound administrative, personnel, fiscal and organizational
services necessary to meet program goals and objectives.
ACES is one of six Regional Educational
Service Centers (RESCs) located throughout Connecticut . All of our programs
have been designed to provide cooperative quality programs to our member school
districts. Each ACES program and
service is designed to support one or more of the above general mission statements.
Regional
Educational Service Center
ACES provides a vehicle for our member
districts to work together to meet educational needs and solve common educational
problems. We provide direct instruction to students from pre-school through
post high school. We develop training workshops for professional and ancillary
educators and administrators. We design brochures, help plan workshops, conferences
and special events for individual or collective school districts. Our success
rests on our ability to offer high quality programs and services at a cost-effective
level.
Philosophy
From the moment we opened in 1970, we have seen ACES as
a group of people working together to provide direct and indirect educational
programs and services to meet the needs of our member districts. We believe in
the team approach; rarely is one person expected to take the final responsibility
for an error or task for which we are not pleased
Please join us in this team effort that has worked for more than thirty years
and with your cooperation we will continue into the future. We are a cooperative
educational center that needs people who are efficient, responsive and dedicated
to serving children and educators. We consider you an important person, a part
of a whole team effort.
History
The Area Cooperative Educational Center opened in 1970 in two small offices
on Treadwell Street in Hamden with two employees to begin a plan to provide
regional, collaborative, educational programs to a potential client count of
twenty-six local school districts.
Today, ACES employs approximately
825 people, providing cooperative, educational programs and services to twenty-six
member school districts and approximately 2500 children and youth from these
school districts. It provides these programs and services at ten primary sites
and facilities in South Central Connecticut.
The staff and programs are supported by a budget of approximately $ 77,100,000
of which over 80% is generated locally. While a large percentage of our financial
support is generated from local school district budgets, ACES is eligible for
State, Federal and foundation grants and does receive support from the State
of Connecticut under Section 10-66 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
ACES is governed by publicly elected board of education members appointed by each member school district. The appointed ACES Governing Board meets monthly to deal with policy considerations applicable to the twenty-six local school districts they represent. These board meetings are usually held on the second Thursday of the month at one of the ACES facilities.
The member school districts of the ACES organization represent a wide diversity of geography and programs. Our main administrative offices, located in the Central Administration Building at 350 State Street, North Haven, contain the offices of the Executive Director, the Assistant Executive Director, the Chief Operating Officer , Human Resources , Program Development and School Readiness/Community Partnership.
The other programs and services that ACES provides are located throughout the south central Connecticut region in some of our member districts.
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