May 1, 2017
/CT Mirror:
Malloy: Legislature’s School-Funding Proposals Not Aggressive Enough
“The plans released last week by Republicans and Democrats to overhaul how schools are funded are too tame, says Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. Currently, two-third of the state’s primary education grant goes to the state’s 30 worst-performing districts. Malloy, a Democrat, proposed in February rerouting $231 million in state education aid to the state’s 30 worst performing school districts by eliminating or drastically cutting aid to better-off districts starting in the next school year. Republicans and Democrats rejected that approach and instead released plans that would put the state on the path to funding the state’s Education Cost Sharing formula as it was intended....”