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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 Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) Agreements

Jul 31, 2017

The State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) is made up of 15 public sector employee unions representing roughly 46,000 Connecticut state employees. SEBAC was recognized in 1986 under Conn. Acts 86-411 to negotiate with the State on healthcare and pension benefits for its individual unions’ active members, as well as retirees.

SEBAC 2017 Contract SEBAC February 2017 SEBAC 2011 SEBAC 2009 SEBAC 5a 1997

Pensions

Research Report: Collective Bargaining Agreements Presented to the General Assembly, 2002-2017 (Office of Legislative Research)

May 23, 2017

Research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research that identifies state employee collective bargaining agreements presented to the General Assembly from 2002 to May 2017 and states how they were approved.

Collective Bargaining Agreements Presented to the General Assembly, 2002-2017

Pensions

Connecticut’s Population and Migration Trends: A Multi-Data Source Dive (Office of Policy and Management)

May 1, 2017

This report examines whether the common narrative that "young people” and the “wealthy” are leaving Connecticut is substantiated by the data. The report examines a variety of publicly available data sources to ascertain Connecticut's migration trends and answer the following questions: 1) What is driving Connecticut’s recent population declines?; 2) Is Connecticut unique in these declines?; and 3) Who is migrating in and out from Connecticut on three dimensions - age, educational attainment, and income?

Connecticut’s Population and Migration Trends: A Multi-Data Source Dive

Economy

Issue Brief: CCJEF v. Rell Superior Court Decision (Office of Legislative Research)

Feb 8, 2017

This issue brief from the Connecticut General Assembly's Office of Legislative Research summarizes Connecticut Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher's September 7, 2016 ruling in Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding (CCJEF) v. Rell. The issue brief details the case's history along with Judge Moukawsher's findings.

OLR CCJEF v. Rell Superior Court Decision

Court Cases

Reports, Statements, and Related Materials (Connecticut Spending Cap Commission)

Jan 21, 2017

Established by section 24 of Conn. Acts 15-1 (December Special Session), the Spending Cap Commission was "charged with creating, for the purposes of the state's constitutional general budget expenditures requirements, proposed definitions of (1) 'increase in personal income,' (2) 'increase in inflation,' and (3) 'general budget expenditures.'" The 24-member Commission, however, did not issue an official final report because its members were unable to agree on a set of recommendations for defining the three items outlined in the Commission's charge.

Spending Cap Commission Reports and Statements Spending Cap Commission Meeting Agendas and Minutes

State Budget State Revenue & Spending

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Demographic Trends of Connecticut’s English Learners (SYs 2015-16 through 2019-20) (Connecticut State Department of Education) Connecticut Municipal Fiscal Indicators (Office of Policy and Management) Breakout of Education Cost Sharing (ECS) Grant Entitlements Between Alliance and Non-Alliance School Districts (CT State Department of Education) Education Funding 101: ECS Grant and Choice Schools (Office of Fiscal Analysis & Office of Legislative Research) Fiscal Accountability Reports (Office of Fiscal Analysis)

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