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.

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Jacqueline Rabe Thomas

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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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