December 19, 2012
In a one-day special session, members of the Connecticut General Assembly met to tackle the state’s multi-million dollar budget deficit. The resulting bill made deep across-the-board reductions, including $11.4 million from education funding. 47% of these cuts came from education reforms the state legislature passed in 2012 with near-unanimous support.
21% of education cuts were to the Commissioner’s Network, which helps intervene and turn around our state’s lowest-performing schools ($2.4 million).
9% of cuts came from the funds for implementing the Common Core State Standards and Connecticut’s new system of teacher and principal evaluations ($1 million).
17% of cuts came from reducing per-pupil funding for charter schools, which are already inequitably funded under Connecticut’s system of school finance ($2 million).
Read our full description of deficit mitigation at conncan.org.
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