Charter Schools Funding

Connecticut State Department of Education

(Funds for Charter Schools)

Pursuant to Section 10-66ee(d), for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, and each fiscal year thereafter, a grant of $11,250 per student is issued to state charter schools. Pursuant to changes in the law for the 2021 legislative session, effective July 1, 2021, state charter schools received a per-pupil base grant of $11,525 for each student enrolled in the school per approved enrollment and additional support provided depending on student eligibility for free or reduced-priced meals and students identified as English learners. Such payments shall be made as follows: twenty-five per cent of the amount not later than July fifteenth; September first based on estimated student enrollment on May first; twenty-five per cent of the amount no later than January first; and the remaining amount no later than April first, each based on student enrollment on October first. Legislation also provides, within available appropriations, a per-student grant to local charter schools of $3,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, and each fiscal year thereafter.