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ACES is the Regional Educational Service Center for the 25 school districts in south central Connecticut. ACES exists to improve public education through innovative, high-quality, costeffective programs and services. As a Local Education Agency, ACES operates schools designed to meet the specific needs of the region.

Area Cooperative Education Services, named fifth among large companies in the top workplaces survey, employs close to 900 people in 14 buildings, including the eight magnet and special education schools that it manages as a district.

Fixing Connecticut's Schools
To Begin: Simplify the System
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ACES Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School, 670 Wintergreen Ave., engaged its entire 640 student population in the recent American Heart Association’s Jump Rope for Heart and Hoops fundraiser to generate close to $7,000 in donations. The student’s fundraising effort ranked Wintergreen sixth of 450 participating schools in Connecticut. Physical Education teachers at the school, which has grades kindergarten through eight, organized the school-wide activity.

New Haven artist Raheem Nelson's iPad is his canvas, and the city his inspiration: The School of Visual Arts grad, who majored in cartooning, has been drawing since he was in second grade. As a Wilbur Cross High School student, he studied at ACES-ECA, which he calls the place where “my formal art education began.” Part of the New York portion of his work reflects sights he saw as a regular commuter into the Big Apple for art school — a MetroNorth train, a Harlem skyline, Radio City Music Hall — “important to me because it’s where I graduated in 2007,” says the New Havener.

ACES was featured as a community partner in the UIL Holding Company December 2012 newsletter.

October 19, 2012: ACES Mill Road School in cooperation with School of Health Services, Quinnipiac University holds Big Read and Fitness Fair

New Haven Register: Article on ACES Educational Center for the Arts: A dance at ECA that gets inside your head

Connecticut among 45 states revamping school curriculums by  Matthew Creegan, Special to the Register

9/21/12 New Haven Register Article on ACES role in helping districts prepare to meet the new Common Core Standards.

Hearst Connecticut Newspapers Selects ACES as a 2012 Top Workplace