New Bipartisan Coalition Calls For Action on Education Funding

HARTFORD, CT — A new nonprofit organization is trying in a bipartisan manner with “out of the box voices” to convey the urgency of coming up with a formula for how the state funds education.

“There’s an opportunity here in terms of interest,” Amy Dowell, executive director of Fix the Formula CT, the new nonprofit, said Monday.

She said there’s a tremendous amount of attention focused on the issue at the moment mostly due to a recent court decision in a decades old lawsuit that found Connecticut is “defaulting on its constitutional duty” to provide an adequate education to all its students.

With the help of former Rep. Bill Dyson, a Democrat from New Haven, and former Sen. John McKinney, a Republican from Fairfield, Dowell said the nonprofit is building a diverse coalition of Connecticut leaders to advocate in favor of a single, inclusive funding formula that provides state funding based on precise student need.

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