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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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Summary of 2016 Agreement Between the State and SEBAC for SERS (Office of Fiscal Analysis)

Dec 21, 2016

Summary from the Connecticut General Assembly's Office of Fiscal Analysis of the recent agreement between the State of Connecticut and the State Employees’ Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) regarding various changes to actuarial assumptions for the State Employees’ Retirement System (SERS).

Summary of 2016 Agreement Between the State and SEBAC

Pensions

Research Report: Education Cost Sharing Grants (Office of Fiscal Analysis and Office of Legislative Research)

Nov 19, 2016

Joint research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis that provides a history of the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula and describes how it has worked.

OFA and OLR Education Cost Sharing Grants

Education Funding Funding Formulas

Research Report: State Tax Changes 2011-2016 (Office of Legislative Research)

Oct 26, 2016

Research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research that summarizes the changes in state taxes from 2011-2016.

OLR State Tax Changes 2011-2016

Taxes

CCJEF v. Rell (2016), Moukawsher Superior Court Ruling

Sep 8, 2016

Hartford Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher ruled partially in favor of the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding in a lengthy, wide-reaching decision regarding Connecticut's school finance system. Judge Moukawsher found several parts of Connecticut's education system, including how the State distributes education aid, and gave the State 180 days to submit proposed changes to address the parts of Connecticut's education system that he found unconstitutional.

CCJEF v. Rell (2016), Moukawsher Superior Court Ruling OLR CCJEF v. Rell Superior Court Decision

Education Funding Court Cases

Final Report and Related Materials (State Tax Panel)

Dec 31, 2015

Established by section 137 of Conn. Acts 14-217, the State Tax Panel was created to "review the state's overall state and local tax structure." The 22-member panel, which consisted of 14 voting members deemed experts in "tax law, tax accounting, tax policy, economics and state, local and business finance," released its final report and recommendations in late December 2015.

State Tax Panel Final Report State Tax Panel - Report to Governor and GA State Tax Panel - Staff Study Papers on Economic and Policy Framework State Tax Panel - Staff Study Papers on Property Tax and Local Revenue

State Revenue & Spending Taxes

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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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