As districts work to meet increasing student needs and maintain high-quality educational programs, the purchasing power of state and local dollars has eroded under the cumulative effects of persistent inflation. To understand how rising costs are impacting students and teachers in the classroom, we conducted interviews with leaders across 18 school districts.
The Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula is the method the State of Connecticut has established to distribute over $2.46 billion annually in state education funding to local and regional public school districts. This one-pager details the current components of the ECS formula, which was last revised during the 2025 regular legislative session.
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.