(HARTFORD, CT) — Meriden, East Hartford and New London students are among the 9,000 students nationwide now in traditional district schools with expanded and redesigned school schedules as part of the TIME Collaborative, a five-state initiative announced last year. Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that a second wave of schools, including schools in Bridgeport, Windham and additional schools in Meriden, have already begun to redesign their schedules for the 2014-2015 school year. With the addition of these schools, 3,000 additional Connecticut students will benefit from extended time in school bringing the total number to nearly 5,000 students.

The announcement of the new districts and schools in the TIME Collaborative was made on November 13 at a visit to the Casimir Pulaski School in Meriden, Connecticut, by Governor Dannel P. Malloy, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker, Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor, and National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) President Jennifer Davis. Casimir Pulaski School is in its second year with an expanded schedule.

“I am proud Connecticut school districts are bringing stakeholders to the table to adopt innovative measures that will help us to improve public education,” Governor Malloy said. “We have a fundamental obligation to students and teachers to ensure that we are doing the most with time allotted each day. Working together with the state’s hardworking teachers, we can and must support successful models that break away from the status quo.”

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