On June 30, 2025, President Donald Trump's administration announced it was withholding over $6.8 billion in federal K-12 education funding for the 2025-26 school year, including an estimated $53.6 million for Connecticut public school districts and community organizations.
This model allows users to calculate future projected State Charter School grants based on the phase-in of weighted student funding for charter schools.
This document provides an overview of how the State of Connecticut currently supports school construction and expands on how the State’s school construction grant reimbursement processes can be improved to better serve all students and public schools.
This combined tool provides comparisons between Connecticut towns based on the data used in the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula, and shows how each town's variables for the formula have changed over the past five years.
This infographic explains how the Excess Cost grant works. The grant is provided by the State of Connecticut to school districts to assist them in paying for students who have extraordinary special education needs and associated costs.
During its 2025 regular legislative session, the Connecticut General Assembly made a number of changes to how the State funds special education, including the creation of a new formulaic grant to support special education services.