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The Resource Center contains a wide collection of reports, publications, and data from Connecticut and national sources. To navigate through the Resource Center, use the keyword search below or browse by selecting a specific category using the drop-down menu below the Featured post.

Task Force to Study Special Education Services and Funding

Jan 15, 2025 Featured

The Task Force to Study Special Education Services and Funding was created by the Connecticut General Assembly to examine a variety of issues related to special education. Specifically, the Task Force looked at the state's severe special education staffing shortage, the lack of resources for special education, the lack of equity in special education across the state, and the failure to close the state's achievement gap.

Special Education Task Force Final Report Special Education Task Force Midterm Report Special Education Task Force Presentation to SpEd Committee

Education Funding Special Education

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Teachers' Retirement System Financial Stabilization Law (Office of Legislative Research)

Dec 24, 2019

This research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research details changes made to Connecticut's Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) as a part of Conn. Acts 19-117, which, among other items, created a special capital reserve fund for the outstanding Connecticut Teachers’ Retirement bonds.

OLR Teachers' Retirement System Financial Stabilization Law

Pensions

Research Report: Regional Education in Small Towns (Office of Legislative Research)

Jan 18, 2019

This issue brief from the Connecticut General Assembly's Office of Legislative Research looks at Connecticut towns with populations of 1) less than 10,000, 2) between 10,000 and 20,000, and 3) between 20,000 and 30,000, and whether each town is part of a regional school district.

OLR Regional Education in Small Towns

Regionalization

Issue Brief: Public Schools of Choice (Office of Legislative Research)

Dec 13, 2018

This issue brief from the Connecticut General Assembly's Office of Legislative Research examines the public schools of choice that Connecticut offers, including charter schools, magnet schools, agricultural science and technology centers (i.e., “vo-ag centers”), and technical high schools.

OLR Public Schools of Choice

Schools of Choice

Issue Brief: Connecticut's Bonding Process (Office of Legislative Research)

Dec 7, 2018

This issue brief from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research describes Connecticut's bonding program and the process for issuing bonds.

OLR Connecticut's Bonding Process

State Budget State Revenue & Spending

Issue Brief: Connecticut's Response to Federal Tax Reform (Office of Legislative Research)

Nov 15, 2018

This issue brief from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research summarizes tax changes made by the General Assembly during the 2018 legislative session in effort to mitigate the potentially negative impacts on Connecticut of federal tax changes made as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 passed by Congress.

OLR Connecticut's Response to Federal Tax Reform

State Revenue & Spending Taxes

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