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School districts administer special education differently. See how yours does it.

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By Patrick McCaslin, Patrick Mccaslin
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With the passage of federal legislation in 1975, all students with disabilities in the United States were guaranteed a free and appropriate public education. Fifty-one years later, students in Connecticut have vastly different experiences depending on the school district they attend. The reason for these differences can't be attributed to a single variable, like income or race or the number of students with a disability.
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School districts administer special education differently. See how yours does it.

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By Patrick McCaslin, Patrick Mccaslin
| CT Insider Verified
With the passage of federal legislation in 1975, all students with disabilities in the United States were guaranteed a free and appropriate public education. Fifty-one years later, students in Connecticut have vastly different experiences depending on the school district they attend. The reason for these differences can't be attributed to a single variable, like income or race or the number of students with a disability.
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Search our database to find Connecticut’s wealthiest school districts Original

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By Patrick McCaslin, Patrick Mccaslin
| CT Insider Verified
In 2024, residents of the Hartford School District in the center of Connecticut had a per-capita income of just over $27,000. Head a few miles to the west, though, and the picture is starkly different: people in the West Hartford School District made more than two-and-a-half times as much, $70,000 per capita. It's one of the state's largest disparities in per-capita income between two neighboring school districts. As might be expected, the difference doesn't only manifest in incomes.
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