Ryan McAuliffe

Investments in education and continuing training ensure that Connecticut maintains a strong and competitive workforce, and have a dramatic effect on health status. However, our overall state investment in education far too frugal for a state of our wealth. Connecticut ranks 47th among all states in state and local spending on all education as a share of total personal income, and 49th in its spending on higher education. If Connecticut's state and local education spending had been at the national average, Connecticut's education investment in 2004 would have been $1.99 billion greater than it was. In addition, Connecticut has shifted more of the burden of funding schools to our cities and towns. The state's contribution to K-12 public education was once 45% of town costs, but is now roughly 40%, one of the lowest shares in the nation. (March 2008)

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