OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS
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Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 240-0200
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sSB-1034
AN ACT CONCERNING MINORITY TEACHER RECRUITMENT
AND RETENTION.
As Amended by Senate "A" (LCO 8546)
House Calendar No.: 542
Senate Calendar No.: 394
Primary Analyst: SB 5/21/21
Contributing Analyst(s):
OFA Fiscal Note
State Impact: None
Municipal Impact:
Municipalities Effect FY 22 $ FY 23 $
Various Local and Regional School
Districts
See Below See Below See Below
Explanation
The bill requires a portion of Alliance District funds (a component
of the Education Cost Sharing grant for recipient towns) to be spent on
minority teacher recruitment and retention. The bill requires,
beginning in FY 22, the State Department of Education to annually
withhold ten percent of each Alliance District’s increase (AD) in those
funds (from FY 20), and the funds will be released to each town for
residency program-related costs, including hiring and retention. If a
board of education does not apply for some or all of the withheld
funds, the town may experience a revenue reduction, but it is
anticipated all affected towns will apply, given the bill’s mandate for
these towns to participate in a minority teacher recruitment residency
program.
The amount withheld from each Alliance District in any year
depends on each town’s change in Alliance District funding compared 2021SB-01034-R01-FN.DOCX Page 2 of 2
to FY 20. These funds are anticipated to total approximately $7.5
million across Alliance Districts in FY 22 under the current ECS
formula, with a median amount per affected Alliance District of
approximately $240,000. The lowest amount is anticipated to be
approximately $10,000 and the highest, nearly $1.4 million. For FY 22,
twenty-five of the 33 Alliance Districts will have increases in ECS
Alliance District funds since FY 20 and therefore will be impacted by
this bill. Because the withholding under the bill is a percentage of the
increase in ECS funds, the amount withheld will grow annually until
FY 28, as ECS grants to impacted towns rise under the ECS formula
phase-in.
The bill also requires SDE to administer a minority teacher
candidate certification, retention, or residency year program, which is
not anticipated to result in a fiscal impact to the state.
Senate "A" makes various procedural changes that do not result in a
fiscal impact.
The Out Years
The annualized ongoing fiscal impact identified above would
continue into the future subject to inflation.
The preceding Fiscal Impact statement is prepared for the benefit of the members of the General Assembly,
solely for the purposes of information, summarization and explanation and does not represent the intent of the
General Assembly or either chamber thereof for any purpose. In general, fiscal impacts are based upon a variety
of informational sources, including the analyst’s professional knowledge. Whenever applicable, agency data is
consulted as part of the analysis, however final products do not necessarily reflect an assessment from any
specific department.