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.
In 1986, the General Assembly passed the Education Enhancement Act, which aimed to reduce salary disparities by offering districts additional state educational aid as an incentive to meet minimum salary targets, rather than providing direct state funding for teacher pay increases.
Connecticut has a number of avenues for towns and school districts to regionally collaborate to share services, achieve efficiencies, and expand opportunities for student and families. But opportunities exist to increase and improve these options and strengthen voluntary regional collaboration in K-12 education.
This frequently asked questions document discusses Connecticut’s minimum budget requirement (MBR), which prohibits a town from budgeting less for education than it did in the previous year unless it meets specific exceptions.
This policy brief focuses on Connecticut's Open Choice program, and discusses its objectives, history, administration, and funding. Open Choice is a program in which Connecticut students can attend schools in local public school districts outside the community in which they reside. Connecticut’s statutes currently allow for districts in the Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, and New London areas to send and receive students from participating districts in their respective region.
This fact sheet includes key stats and figures about Connecticut's over 54,000 multilingual learners, as well as information about funding for bilingual education programs.