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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

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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
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Education Funding Special Education

Assessing the Risk of Fiscal Distress for Public Pensions: State Stress Test Analysis (The Pew Charitable Trusts)

This paper, produced by The Pew Charitable Trusts for the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, summarizes the results of a stress test simulation analysis on the largest government pension plans in 10 states under different economic scenarios and assumptions for policymaker behavior.

Assessing the Risk of Fiscal Distress for Public Pensions
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Pensions Fixed Costs

Research Report: Comparison of Charter, Magnet, Agricultural Science Centers, and Technical High Schools (Office of Legislative Research)

Research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research that compares Connecticut's laws and funding for four types of public schools: charter schools, interdistrict magnet schools, regional agricultural science and technology education centers (“agri-science centers”), and technical high schools.

OLR Comparison of Charter, Magnet, Agricultural Science Centers, and Technical High Schools
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Schools of Choice

Connecticut Municipal Statistical and Formula Aid Information (Office of Policy and Management)

Prepared by Connecticut's Office of Policy and Management, this document includes demographic and education data for each of the state's 169 municipalities. Also included in the document is statutory formula aid for each city and town from FY 2011 - FY 2019 as well as historical information about each city and town's mill rate, state aid per capita, fund balance, expenditures, and revenue.

Connecticut Municipal Statistical and Formula Aid Information
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Municipal Aid & Spending

CCJEF v. Rell (2018) (CT Supreme Court Decision)

In a 4-3 ruling, the Connecticut Supreme Court reversed in part, and affirmed in part, a 2016 ruling from Hartford Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher focused on Connecticut's school finance system. The Supreme Court ruled the way Connecticut allocates state education dollars, and how much the State spends on public education, is constitutional and does not violate Article Eighth § 1 of the Connecticut Constitution.

CCJEF 2018 Supreme Court Majority Opinion CCJEF 2018 Supreme Court Concurrence and Dissent
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Education Funding Court Cases