Statewide, unless education advocates rally and the Legislature intervenes, municipalities and school districts will suffer more than $ 1.1 billion in
slashed public school aid — the largest school cut in more than two decades.
In addition, rather than appropriately fund Connecticut's education grants, Malloy's budget plan seeks to redirect existing state
aid for
public schools to Connecticut's poorer towns by
slashing grants to wealthier and middle income communities.