"We bring parents, educators, policymakers, and advocates together to help ensure that all kids have access to great schools regardless of race, wealth, or zip code.

"[4] The campaign successfully advocated for four reforms: "measuring effectiveness," world-class standards," superstar principals," and "money follows the child.

[6] Staff and Board A February 2007 review[7] by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation compared the organization's legislative agenda to that of the Delaware-based Vision 2015 plan for education reform and stated that it is "spearheaded by a large, well-credentialed Board of Directors and Advisors and is clearly serious about school reform."

In January 2010, ConnCAN undertook the development of a pilot program in Rhode Island to test out replication of its model in a new state.

[9] In January 2011 this effort to bring the ConnCAN model to new states was formally spun off as an independent non-profit organization named 50CAN.