Why does ConnCAN advocate this weighting system?
To benefit charter schools, of course. The majority of Connecticut's charter schools serve very few students with disabilities, very few ELL children and serve more children who qualify for reduced-price lunch versus those qualifying for free lunch. If a system ignores these factors, then charters will receive money that public schools with lower-income children and more ELL children and children with disabilities deserve under a model that accounts for these need factors.
These are only some of the distortions ConnCAN employs in order to push a funding scheme that benefits only charter schools.
Why should we care about the fake reports published by ConnCAN? Because ConnCAN wields an unhealthy amount of power in Connecticut.
School funding reform was last addressed during the 2011 legislative session. ConnCAN unsuccessfully pushed its funding reform in the state Board of Education, then wrote a bill advocating the same scheme that was introduced, and defeated, in the Appropriations Committee. In his testimony opposing the bill, the governor's OPM secretary, Ben Barnes, noted that only one organization had input in the bill: ConnCAN.
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