To help you navigate the revised state budget for fiscal year 2027, we've put together an analysis detailing all the education funding changes in the budget and what they mean for students in your community and across the state. Additionally, we've created a resource that lists the additional state education funding each town will receive and explains how that funded was calculated and will be distributed.
From the 2024-25 school year to the 2025-26 school year, Connecticut's public schools experienced their largest enrollment decline since the pandemic. This brief provides a high-level analysis of the latest enrollment counts and examines their impacts on ECS grant allocations to districts.
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 policy briefing details the current mismatch between student learning needs and per-student spending in Connecticut’s local and regional public school districts, and examines some of the factors that contribute to this mismatch.
This frequently asked questions document provides information about Connecticut's 17 regional school districts, which educate a combined enrollment of nearly 23,000 students. This FAQ document answers questions about the creation, administration, and funding of Connecticut's regional school districts.
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.