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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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DIY (Do-it-Yourself) Revenue Calculator (Office of the State Comptroller)

Jun 1, 2022

The DIY Revenue Calculator is an online, interactive tool provided by the Office of the State Comptroller, which allows users to calculate the approximate impact tax changes would have on overall state revenue. Using the DIY Revenue Calculator, users can 1) specify changes in existing state tax rates, 2) eliminate existing state tax exemptions and credits, and 3) implement new state taxes and fees to change the estimated amount and sources of state revenue.

Comptroller DIY Revenue Calculator

State Revenue & Spending Taxes

Sheff v. O'Neill Supreme Court Ruling and Subsequent Stipulation Agreements

Mar 21, 2022

Sheff v. O'Neill is a school segregation case that began in 1989 when a group of city and suburban parents argued that public schools in Hartford were segregated, underfunded, and denied students in the Hartford area their constitutional right to an adequate and equal education due to the disparities in the distribution of funding and resources between communities of color in Hartford and the adjacent, majority white suburbs. This resource details the 1996 Connecticut Supreme Court ruling in the case, as well as the stipulated agreements and proposed settlement that followed.

Sheff Permanent Injunction 1996 Sheff Supreme Court Ruling 1989 Sheff Complaint 2003 Sheff Stipulation 2008 Sheff Stipulation

Student Enrollment/Demographics Schools of Choice Court Cases

State Requirements for Bilingual Education Programs (Office of Legislative Research)

Jan 15, 2022

This research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research summarizes Connecticut laws and regulations for public school bilingual education programs.

OLR State Requirements for Bilingual Education Programs

Student Enrollment/Demographics Equity

Individual Income Tax Data Reports (Department of Revenue Services)

Jan 4, 2022

Annual reports from Connecticut's Department of Revenue Services featuring data on individual income taxes. Reports include information on personal income tax by municipality as well as data on the Earned Income Tax Credit by town.

Individual Income Tax Data Reports (Reports from Most Recent Year) Individual Income Tax Data Reports (Reports from 2004-Present)

State Revenue & Spending

State Grants to Municipalities (Office of Legislative Research)

Dec 21, 2021

This research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research summarizes financial grants the State of Connecticut provides to municipalities.

OLR State Grants to Municipalities

Municipal Aid & Spending

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