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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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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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2017 Changes to the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) Formula (Office of Legislative Research)

Dec 21, 2017

Research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research that describes the changes made in Conn. Acts 17-2 (June Special Session) to the formula for the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) grant.

OLR 2017 Changes to the ECS Formula

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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

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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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