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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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Participation in Connecticut's Open Choice Program, 2013-2018 (CT State Department of Education)

May 23, 2018

This spreadsheet, from Connecticut's State Department of Education, details the number of students participating in Connecticut's Open Choice program — by resident town — each year from the 2013-14 school year to the 2017-18 school year.

Open Choice Enrollment 2013 2018

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

Feb 17, 2018

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