The New Haven Board of Education voted April 28 to bring control of school kitchens in-house, effectively booting Aramark Corp. July 1 from city cafeterias. Read more at the New Haven Register and also at the New Haven Independent. The decision comes after workers, parents and students demanded a higher standard for nutrition and management in the district's cafeterias.

Current CCNE Campaigns

The Civic Leadership Institute of Connecticut is committed to building a leadership base capable of designing and implementing public policy to close the income gap and improve the overall quality of life for all of Connecticut's residents.

New Haven at the Crossroads – an Economic Blueprint will draw on a process of community participation to identify indicators that provide realistic measures of how people are doing.  They are likely to include conditions of workers, quality of life indicators and hidden social costs. These can serve as "benchmarks" that can be compared from year to year to measure improvement or deterioration in the future.