Some towns would gain and some would lose state funding under Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposal for town aid grants, including the Education Cost Sharing grant, the largest operating grant to K-12 school districts.
The state’s $2.3 billion Education Cost Sharing program would continue to follow a previously authorized schedule of increases, growing by more than $157 million in the first year of the new biennium and by another $11 million in the second.
Similarly, the grant that reimburses communities for a portion of the revenue they lose because certain properties are exempt from local taxation also will grow as planned, by about $40 million over the next two years combined.
Some towns will see changes in the amount of education aid they receive.