For the second time in just over a week, the Connecticut General Assembly has approved greater funding for special education. Today, the legislature passed H.B. 7163, which will provide an additional $40 million in funding in the current fiscal year (FY 2025) for the special education Excess Cost grant.
A group of bipartisan leaders with the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities gathered on Thursday to call on the state to invest more in our children.
Education stakeholders — including lawmakers, superintendents and municipal leaders — gathered Thursday to call out Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration for a lack of financial investment in K-12 education and to urge state leadership to make it a priority in the upcoming 2024 legislative session.
Municipal leaders, educators, superintendents and students from across Connecticut joined forces Thursday to call on lawmakers to invest more money in education.
A new report shows 119,000 young people are out of work and out of school. Officials say they want to cut that number in half.
Over a year in the making, the 119K Commission released its comprehensive, 120-page report detailing four strategic pillars and 22 “aligned” actions on how to reconnect 60,000 of the roughly 119,000 disconnected youth in Connecticut.