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Discusses new laws (public acts and special acts) significantly affecting education enacted during the 2019 regular session.

Discusses any education-related task forces and working groups that are ongoing and have not yet submitted final reports to the General Assembly or were created by the legislature in the 2019 session.

Discusses Connecticut's ECS formula follows a pupil-based model. which is also known as a "foundation" model

Discusses new laws (public acts and special acts) affecting education enacted during the 2018 regular session.

Discusses state laws and funding for four types of public schools, charter schools, interdistrict magnet schools, regional agricultural science and technology education centers and technical education schools. Updates OLR research report 2014-R-0257.

Discusses new laws (public acts and special acts) affecting education enacted during the 2017 regular session.

Discusses Connecticut's ECS formula, which follows a pupil-based model, also known as a "foundation" model, which a majority of states use

Discusses statutory mandates imposed on Connecticut public school districts over the past few years. Updates and revises February 2013 OLR research report 2013-R-0047 to include mandates adopted, eliminated, or modified in the 2013 legislative session.

Public Act 11-48, An Act Implementing Provisions of the Budget Concerning General Government, established a task force to study issues relating to state funding for education in the context of state constitutional requirements.

Discusses statutory mandates imposed on Connecticut public school districts over the past few years. Updates and revises OLR research report 2011-R-0457 to include mandates adopted, eliminated, or modified in the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 legislative sessions.

Revitalizes the objectives and updates the membership of the P-20 Council.

Discusses recently enacted provisions affecting prekindergarten to grade 12 education currently scheduled for implementation in the next seven years and the reporting schedule to the legislature on the progress of recently enacted education initiatives.

Discusses which school districts are eligible for the new school readiness slots, family resource centers, and school-based health clinics required by the 2012 Education Reform Act (PA 12-116).

Discusses new laws affecting education enacted during the 2012 regular session.

Discusses State Board of Education's takeover of the Bridgeport Board of Education.

Discusses progress the state has made on the transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for education and plans the state has to pay for technology needed for new state tests based on the new standards.

Discusses statutory education mandates on local school districts. Updates and revises OLR research report 2009-R-0001 to reflect mandates, adopted, eliminated, or modified in the 2009, 2010, and 2011 legislative sessions (under same author and title).

Provides brief highlights of new laws affecting education enacted during the 2011 regular session.

Discusses federal stimulus funds for education and PA 10-111, an Act Concerning Education Reform in Connecticut.

Discusses new laws affecting education enacted during the 2009 regular and special legislative sessions.

Discusses the state's one-third contribution to retired teachers' health insurance, cost of living adjustments for teachers' retirement benefits, the Social Security government pension offset and the windfall elimination provisions, and major issues the Education Committee considered in the 2009 session.

Discusses the major components of the State Board of Education's (SBE) secondary school reform proposal.