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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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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

Budget Reserve Fund (BRF) Quick Facts (Office of Fiscal Analysis)

Nov 21, 2020

This document from the Connecticut General Assembly's Office of Fiscal Analysis provides an overview of Connecticut's Budget Reserve Fund (commonly referred to as the "Rainy Day Fund"), including information about the Fund's balance, how money flows into the Fund, and how and when money in the Fund may be used.

Budget Reserve Fund Quick Facts November 2020 Budget Reserve Quick Facts November 2019

State Budget

Demographic Trends of Connecticut’s English Learners (SYs 2015-16 through 2019-20) (Connecticut State Department of Education)

Oct 2, 2020

This report from the Connecticut State Department of Education summarizes demographic trends of Connecticut's English Learner students from the 2015-16 school year through the 2019-20 school year.

Demographic Trends of Connecticut’s English Learners (SYs 2015-16 through 2019-20)

Student Enrollment/Demographics

State Enforcement of the Minimum Budget Requirement (MBR) (Office of Legislative Research)

Feb 12, 2020

This research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research describes how the Connecticut State Department of Education enforces the Minimum Budget Requirement (MBR), which prohibits a town from budgeting less for education in an upcoming fiscal year than it did in the previous year.

OLR State Enforcement of the MBR

Education Funding District/School Spending Municipal Aid & Spending

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

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