From Day 1 of our organization, we've been committed to improving how Connecticut funds its public schools and creating a more equitable, logical, and transparent system for all students and communities.
While positive steps have been taken over the past few years to improve how Connecticut funds K-12 public education, the state’s education finance system remains inequitable, disjointed, and inadequate for addressing the systemic racial and economic disparities found in Connecticut education funding.
That's why we're working with legislative, education, community, and municipal stakeholders across the state to create a student-centered funding system that will help address Connecticut’s educational inequities, fix the state’s current complex and disjointed way of funding public schools, and make significant strides in reducing Connecticut's alarming racial funding disparities. Click here for resources about student-centered funding.
The student-centered funding system our team has developed and modeled would significantly strengthen and improve how Connecticut funds public education by:
- Fully funding all districts;
- Reducing Connecticut’s racial and economic funding gaps;
- Bridging the looming "fiscal cliff" when federal COVID-relief aid expires and allowing districts to plan and invest in long-term resources;
- Investing in Connecticut's future and addressing the state's severe labor and skill shortage;
- Expanding the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula to include all Connecticut public school students;
- Combatting the state's shortage of teachers, paraprofessionals, and counselors; and
- Responding to the crisis of growing student needs.
