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Lawmakers and the public are soon going to be able to see how the $2.6 billion in education aid they provide each year to districts is being spent.
The State Bond Commission on Monday approved $450,000 to help pay for the state to develop a system to monitor and track how state aid is being spent. The total project — dubbed a “Common Chart of Accounts” — is expected to cost $4 million.
The system will track both municipal and local school board’s budgets.
Jacqueline was CT Mirror’s Education and Housing Reporter, and an original member of the CT Mirror staff, joining shortly before our January 2010 launch. Her awards include the best-of-show Theodore A. Driscoll Investigative Award from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists in 2019 for reporting on inadequate inmate health care, first-place for investigative reporting from the New England Newspaper and Press Association in 2020 for reporting on housing segregation, and two first-place awards from the National Education Writers Association in 2012. She was selected for a prestigious, year-long Propublica Local Reporting Network grant in 2019, exploring a range of affordable and low-income housing issues. Before joining CT Mirror, Jacqueline was a reporter, online editor and website developer for The Washington Post Co.’s Maryland newspaper chains. Jacqueline received an undergraduate degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University and a master’s in public policy from Trinity College.
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