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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

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50-State Comparison: K-12 Funding (Education Commission of the States)

Mar 11, 2024

This 50-state comparison from the Education Commission of the States looks at how each state allocates K-12 funding to school districts. The comparison includes a look at each state's primary funding models, base per-student funding amounts, and student enrollment counts, and information about funding for special education services, English language learners, economically disadvantaged students, gifted and talented students, and small and rural school districts.

ECS 50-State Comparison: K-12 Funding

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School Construction Grant Process (Office of Legislative Research)

Nov 1, 2023

This research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research provides an overview of the state's school construction grant process.

OLR School Construction Grant Process

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Education Funding 101: ECS Grant and Choice Schools (Office of Fiscal Analysis & Office of Legislative Research)

Feb 2, 2023

This presentation from the Office of Fiscal Analysis and Office of Legislative Research covers Connecticut's ECS grant, funding formulas for public schools of choice, and state education funding for each public school type.

Education Funding 101 Presentation by OFA and OLR

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OLR Backgrounder: School Transportation Requirements (Office of Legislative Research

Aug 4, 2022

This report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research details the requirements Connecticut school districts must follow relating to student transportation to and from school.

OLR Report: School Transportation Requirements

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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

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