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GALES FERRY, CT – New London County is the fourth largest of Connecticut’s eight counties but has the smallest population with just under 270,000 residents. But according to The Connecticut Project's Courtney McNally-Parkerson, the shortage of childcare options in the county has reached crisis levels and is just as great, if not more so, than it is in the state's more densely populated counties of Fairfield, New Haven, and Hartford.

New Connecticut legislation passed in 2023 requires that kindergarten students be 5 years old by Sept. 1, instead of the previous cutoff of Jan. 1.

CT parents whose children won't turn 5 by Sept. 1 can request to enroll them in kindergarten early, but that process varies by district.

A strong majority of Connecticut superintendents hope the state will delay implementation of a change to the state's kindergarten cutoff age, an informal survey from the nonprofit Connecticut Project ...

A new report published by the The Connecticut Project Tuesday found that school districts throughout the state are not ready for kindergarten eligibility