Connecticut State Department of Education

Superintendent's Digest


The superintendent's digest collects recent communications from the State Department of Education to leaders in local school districts. Items are organized by fiscal year, which runs from July 1 to June 30. Select an archive for entries from previous years.

Guidance for K-12 Schools

August 7, 2025

August 5, 2025

August 4, 2025

Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations Advances in Senate

July 2025

July 31, 2025

Important Update on Federal Funding

On July 30, 2025, the CSDE received Grant Award Notifications from the United States Department of Education that the following grants have been funded. For your information, we are including the grant award amounts for Federal Fiscal Year 2025 (FFY25) and are also sharing the funding that was provided in Federal Fiscal Year 2024 (FFY24):

  • Title II-A, ESEA: Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants- $17,546,515.00 ($3,934,385.00 currently available to CSDE with the remainder expected in October) (FFY24- $16,627,978.00)
  • Title III-A, ESEA: English Language Acquisition- $7,909,975.00 (FFY24- $7,801,605.00)
  • Title IV-A, ESEA: Student Support and Academic Enrichment State Grants- $11,333,645.00 (FFY24- $11,448,661.00)
  • Title II, WIOA: Adult Basic and Literacy Education State Grants (including English Literacy and Civics Education State Grants)- $6,442,269.00 (FFY24-$6,703,973.00)

Districts will be notified through the grant management system once CSDE has completed review and calculations for each grant within our normal processing timeline.

July 28, 2025

July 26, 2025

Important Update on Federal Funding

This serves to confirm what has widely been reported in the press regarding the release of education funding to states. On Friday afternoon, July 25, 2025, the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) received official notice that read in part:

Beginning the week of July 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education will begin releasing funding for the current federal and education fiscal year for the following formula programs:

  • Title I-C, ESEA: Migrant Student Education;
  • Title II-A, ESEA: Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants;
  • Title III-A, ESEA: English Language Acquisition; and
  • Title IV-A, ESEA: Student Support and Academic Enrichment State Grants.

Similar notice was also received for Title II, WIOA: Adult Basic and Literacy Education State Grants (including English Literacy and Civics Education State Grants).

The official Grant Award Notifications (GAN) are expected in the upcoming week which will provide the actual grant funding amounts; that is unknown at this time. The CSDE will review and share additional information, including the grant amounts received, as they become available.

We recognize that these resources are essential to sustaining the programs and services on which you rely to support students. Therefore, we are pleased to share this new development with you this Saturday.

July 21, 2025

July 17, 2025

  • Reminder: Preliminary State Summative Assessment Results - Please see email dated May 12, 2025 for State Assessment Results Release schedule; District Contacts. The release of preliminary results is intended to help district and school educators to internally evaluate their efforts in 2024-25, and plan for the 2025-26 year. These results are not final until the CSDE has more thoroughly verified and compiled them and released them publicly later in August. Therefore, please emphasize to all CRS users that aggregate results for schools or the district for any state assessment should not be shared publicly with parents or members of the community, or otherwise made public until the CSDE has released the results publicly on EdSight in late August. This policy also applies to the results of the Connecticut SAT School Day.
  • State Assessment Results Release Schedule - Preliminary state summative assessment results for Smarter Balanced, NGSS, and all Connecticut Alternate Assessments are now available on a rolling basis through Cambium Assessment Incorporated’s Centralized Reporting System. As in past years, preliminary results for all students are expected to be available in the Centralized Reporting System by mid-June. 
    • English Language Proficiency Assessment results are also now available. All LAS Links results for 2025 are now available in DRC’s INSIGHT secure portal and all CAAELP Results are available on the Centralized Reporting System. Detailed instructions are being sent under separate cover to the English Learner Assessment Coordinators.
    • Connecticut SAT School Day results are available on a rolling basis through the College Board portal.
    • As in prior years, please do not release any aggregate results for schools or the district for any state assessment until the CSDE has released the results publicly on EdSight. LAS Links results should be available on EdSight by the end of May while results for all other assessments are expected to be released publicly on EdSight by mid/late August.  
  • Are Your District’s Contacts with CSDE Up to Date? The CSDE uses the Find Contacts report on EdSight to disseminate important communication to relevant staff in your district. The Report Notes lists the specific contacts maintained in each source application. For a detailed explanation of the report, you can view the first 20 minutes of the webinar, Behind the Numbers: From Data to Dashboards, Session 2 of 3.

July 14, 2025