Legislators maintain they had a solid agreement with Lamont’s administration last year as part of the two-year budget for an additional $150 million for K-12 public education, but that total has not been placed into the latest budget recommendations.
Superintendents across the state are concerned about intensifying learning gaps and their ability to address the unique needs of their diverse districts as COVID-era relief funding expires. While the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted districts across the state, data shows the pandemic has also fueled achievement gaps for the state’s growing student-of-color and multilingual learner populations.