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Towns to maintain schools.

Discontinuance of kindergarten programs restricted.

Access of parent or guardian to student's records. Inspection and subpoena of school or student records.

Discrimination in public schools prohibited. School attendance by five-year-olds.

Applicability of education statutes to the Unified School Districts and the Technical Education and Career System.

Applicability of education statutes to incorporated or endowed high schools or academies.

Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.

Exemplary schools.

Pilot program to incorporate common core state standards.

Connecticut Achievement and Resource Equity in Schools Commission.

Length of school year.

Silent meditation.

Section
10-16aa

Competitive district grant account.

*(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Prescribed courses of study.

Section
10-16bb

Transferred to Chapter 184c, Sec. 10-502.

State board to develop family life education curriculum guides.

Sections
10-16cc and 10-16dd

Planning director for the coordinated system of early care and education and child development; plan; reports. Development of system for sharing information between preschool and school readiness programs and kindergarten.

Family life education programs not mandatory.

Students not required to participate in family life education programs.

Sections
10-16ee to 10-16ll

Reserved for future use.

Family life programs to supplement required curriculum.

Sections
10-16g to 10-16k

Increased student time on task; grants. Application for grants; selection criteria. Project evaluations; statement of expenditures. Assistance and information to school districts. Continuation of pilot program; report.

Establishment of graduation date.

Extended-day kindergarten. Grants.

Section
10-16mm

Task force to address academic achievement gaps. Master plan. Progress reports.

Head Start and Early Head Start grant program. Grant allocation. Advisory committee.

Section
10-16nn

Interagency Council for Ending the Achievement Gap.

Development of network of school readiness programs.

Section
10-16oo

Model curricula and frameworks in reading and mathematics for schools and districts identified as having academic achievement gaps.

Definitions. Lead agency for school readiness; standards. Grant programs; eligibility. Unexpended funds. Salaries increase.

Section
10-16pp

Plan to provide instruction in financial literacy. Funds for implementation. Report.

School readiness program requirements. Per child cost limitation. Sliding fee scale. Waiver from schedule requirements.

Section
10-16qq

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction.

Local school readiness councils; duties. Regional school readiness councils.

Section
10-16rr

Preschool program accreditation.

Interagency agreement on school readiness. Assessment measures.

Section
10-16ss

African-American and black studies and Puerto Rican and Latino studies instruction.

Participation by five-year-olds in school readiness programs.

Section
10-16tt

Development of Black and Latino studies course. Audit to ensure course being offered.

Grants for school readiness programs in transitional school districts.

Section
10-16uu

Black and Latino studies course to be offered in grades nine to twelve.

After school committee established. Appointment of members. Reports and recommendations. Acceptance of funding. Reports to General Assembly.

Early learning and development standards; technical assistance and training.

After school program grant.

Office of Early Childhood Planning, Outreach and Coordination. Duties.

Early Childhood Cabinet. Members. Duties.

English language to be medium of instruction. Exception.

Establishment of bilingual and bicultural program.

Sections
10-17b and 10-17c

Instruction bilingually and biculturally; procedures, materials and equipment; purpose. Advice and assistance of state board; evaluation of programs.

Application for and receipt of federal funds.

Definitions.

Duties of boards of education regarding bilingual education programs. Development of state English mastery standard. Regulations.

Grants for the provision of programs of bilingual education. Annual evaluation report.

Planning, development or operation of initially required bilingual program.

Encouragement of increased language instruction. Proficiency in language recognized on permanent record.

Request to commissioner to use certified English as a second language teacher in place of bilingual education teacher in cases of teacher shortage. Teacher exchange programs.

Standards re extension of bilingual education program for eligible student.

Department to provide information re research-based practices to involve parents in language acquisition process and native language accommodations for mastery examination.

Report re academic progress of bilingual education students and quality of bilingual education programs.

English language learner pilot program.

Courses in United States history, government and duties and responsibilities of citizenship.

Contents of textbooks and other general instructional materials.

Development of guides for firearm safety programs.

Firearm safety programs. Exemption from participation.

Animal dissection. Students to be excused from participation or observation.

Uniform standards and curriculum for career technical education programs.

Holocaust and genocide education and awareness curriculum.

Instuctional materials re Safe Haven Act.

Teaching about alcohol, nicotine or tobacco, drugs and acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Training of personnel.

Superintendent to designate substance abuse prevention team. Training of team members.

Advisory councils on drug abuse prevention.

Program for careers in information technology.

High school mathematics and science challenge pilot program.

“Future Scholars” pilot matching grant program.

Sections
10-19f to 10-19l

Reserved for future use.

(Formerly Sec. 17a-39) - Youth service bureaus. Report. Regulations.

(Formerly Sec. 17a-40) - State aid for establishment and expansion of youth service bureaus.

(Formerly Sec. 17a-40a) - Youth service bureau grant program.

(Formerly Sec. 17a-41) - Assistance to youth service bureaus.

Enhancement grant program for youth service bureaus.

Department of Children and Families. Youth service bureau grant program and enhancement grant program. Successor department.

Comptroller may withhold school money.

Connecticut career certificate programs.

Connecticut career certificate. Compliance with state and federal laws and regulations. Student and employer requirements. Compensation.

Issuance of Connecticut career certification. Credit for program.

Grants for support of Connecticut career certificate programs.

Awarding of grants.

Retention of appropriated funds, when.

Vocational guidance.

Accredited courses offered by employers.

Programs offered jointly by boards of education and business firms; neighborhood assistance.

Donation of teaching services by private sector specialists; neighborhood assistance.

Sections
10-21d and 10-21e

School-Business Forum; membership; procedures. School-Business Forum; responsibilities; termination.

Career ladder programs.

“Generation Next” pilot program.

Preliteracy course for bachelor's degree program with concentration in early childhood education.

Red Ribbon PASS Program.

Connecticut Apprenticeship and Education Committee.

Pipeline for Connecticut's future program.

Computer science education account.

Sections
10-22 and 10-23

Instruction in music. Instruction on highway safety.

Transferred to Chapter 246, Part III, Sec. 14-36e.

(Formerly Sec. 14-157) - State grants for motor vehicle operation and highway safety course.

Fee when course offered outside regular school hours.

Grants for motor vehicle operation and highway safety courses in private secondary schools.

Transferred to Chapter 246, Part III, Sec. 14-36f.

Regulations concerning content of safe driving course.

Secondary education for veterans.

Strategic master plan for public education in the state. Planning Commission for Education established. Duties. Goals. Benchmarks. Report.

Education grant to child of deceased or disabled veteran or missing in action member of armed forces.

International studies, exchange programs. Advisory committee.

International education programs, recognition of schools and partnership programs.

Transferred to Chapter 190, Sec. 11-23b.

Advice and assistance to school library media centers.

School volunteers; information and assistance about; state-wide coordinator; state plan.

Library service center in Middlesex County.

Certain days, weeks and months to be proclaimed by Governor. Distribution and number of proclamations.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission.

Certain days, weeks and months to be designated for celebration of ethnic, cultural or heritage groups.

Sections
10-30 and 10-30a

Certain days to be proclaimed by Governor; distribution and number of proclamations. Proclamation of Hat Day prohibited.

Sections
10-31 and 10-32

Establishment and maintenance. Duties of town board of education.

Tuition in towns in which no high school is maintained.

Approval by state board of incorporated or endowed high school or academy.

Notice of discontinuance of high school service to nonresidents. Cooperative arrangements and school building projects for school accommodations.

Agreements with Gilbert School and Woodstock Academy.

Sections
10-37 and 10-38

Transportation within the town. Joint high schools.

Maintenance of postsecondary schools.

Sections
10-38b to 10-38i

Transferred to Chapter 185b, Part I, Secs. 10a-71 to 10a-78, inclusive.

Recommendations for expansion of higher educational opportunities.

Sections
10-38k and 10-38l

Transferred to Chapter 185b, Part I, Secs. 10a-79 and 10a-80, respectively.

Temporary regional school study committee.

Appointment of committee members.

Officers and records of committee.

Expenses of committee.

Reports to towns. Dissolution of committee.

Disposition of committee records.

Referendum on establishment of regional districts or addition or withdrawal of grades.

Regional board of education.

Transfer of responsibility to regional board.

Powers of regional board. Meetings.

Withdrawal of grades.

Addition or withdrawal of grades.

Amendment of plan.

Sections
10-48 and 10-49

Relocation of site. Site in town outside district.

Site in town outside district.

Admission of adjacent town to district.

Fiscal year. Budget. Payments by member towns; adjustments to payments. Investment of funds. Temporary borrowing. Reserve funds.

Petition to determine deficiency in town payment.

Reserve fund for employee sick leave and severance benefits.

Finance committee.

Adult education.

Application of education statutes.

Transportation grants.

Pupils to attend regional school.

Corporate powers. Bond issues.

Sections
10-57 and 10-58

Debt limitation. Investment of proceeds of bond issue.

Default of district in payment on bonds or notes. Withholding of state aid.

Fiscal year. Budget.

Borrowing in addition to bonds.

Refunding bonds.

Sections
10-61 to 10-63

Withdrawal of town. Dissolution of district. Payment of indebtedness on dissolution of district.

Vote for withdrawal of town or dissolution of district.

Committee to study issues relating to withdrawal or dissolution.

Report of committee.

Sections
10-63d and 10-63e

Submission of final plan; publication of notice. Special town meetings on proposal.

Obligations not affected by action.

Withdrawal and dissolution restricted.

Applicability to existing regional school districts.

Regional school district established before June 24, 1969.

“Representation”, defined.

Regional school reapportionment committee.

Powers of regional school reapportionment committee.

Approval or rejection of plan recommended by regional school reapportionment committee.

Referendum for regional school reapportionment. Establishment of plan.

Execution of reapportionment plan.

Time limits for reapportionment. Right to compel compliance.

Notification as to constitutionality of regional board representation following decennial census.

Establishment of new plan of representation permitted after initial reapportionment.

Duties of Commissioner of Education. Actions of regional board to be by weighted vote.

Applicability of reapportionment requirements.

Sections
10-63u to 10-63y

Effective date of reapportionment requirements of sections 10-46(a) and 10-63j to 10-63u, inclusive. Withdrawal from or dissolution of regional school districts in existence on April 21, 1976. Establishment of committee on withdrawal or dissolution. Report of committee. Limitation on number of applications for withdrawal or dissolution.

Establishment of regional agricultural science and technology education centers. Moratorium; exception. Tuition and transportation.

Grants for constructing and operating agricultural science and technology education centers. Tuition charges.

Plan to increase racial and ethnic diversity.

Provision of student's nonagricultural academic courses; shared-time arrangements.

Regulations.

Establishment.

Section
10-66aa

Charter schools: Definitions.

Operation and management. Board.

Section
10-66bb

Application process and requirements. Initial certificate of approval for charter. Charter renewal. Probation. Revocation. Enrollment lottery; exceptions.

Powers of board of center.

Section
10-66cc

Strategic school profile report. Report on school's progress.

Participation by boards of education and nonpublic schools.

Section
10-66dd

School professionals and persons holding charter school educator permits employed in charter schools. Charter schools subject to laws governing public schools; exceptions; waivers. Participation in the state teacher retirement system.

Payment of expenses.

Section
10-66ee

Charter school funding. Special education students. Transportation. Contracts. Cooperative arrangements.

Participation in programs of other centers. Joint action by centers.

Section
10-66ff

Powers. Liability limited. Participation in Short-Term Investment Fund.

Budget and projected revenues statement. Annual audit.

Section
10-66gg

Report to General Assembly.

Annual evaluation of programs and services.

Section
10-66hh

Program to assist charter schools with capital expenses.

Applicability of statutes. Receipt of payments.

Section
10-66ii

Report on best practices employed by charter schools.

Regulations. Annual grants, proportional reduction. Support of regional efforts to recruit and retain minority educators.

Section
10-66jj

Bond authorization for program to assist charter schools with capital expenses.

Revocation of participation; effect on pledge for security of bonds. Existence of center and repayment of obligations.

Section
10-66kk

Governing council. Internet posting of meeting schedules, agendas and minutes. Membership.

Boards of education may join center within or outside area.

Section
10-66ll

Random audits of charter schools.

Other cooperative agreements not affected.

Section
10-66mm

Regulations concerning management of charter schools.

Grants for identifying and disseminating information re exemplary classroom projects.

Section
10-66nn

Grant to assist with start-up costs for new local charter school. Eligibility. Applications. Unexpended funds. Guidelines.

Provision of goods and services to boards of education.

Section
10-66oo

Governing council. Training re responsibilities and best practices. Adoption of policies re antinepotism and conflict of interests.

Allocation and expenditure of funds for professional development services, technical assistance and evaluation activities.

Section
10-66pp

Annual submission of certified audit statement and Internal Revenue Service form 990.

Uniform regional school calendar.

Section
10-66qq

Internet web site posting re reports, certified audit statements and forms.

Regional model for provision of special education services re transportation, training and therapeutic services.

Section
10-66rr

Child abuse and neglect registry and criminal history records checks of governing council members, charter management organization members and contractors.

Survey re special education services and programs.

Section
10-66ss

Amendment to charter.

Survey re English language learner services and bilingual education programs.

Section
10-66tt

Contract for whole school management services with a charter management organization.

Sections
10-66u to 10-66z

Reserved for future use.

Section
10-66uu

Applicability of Freedom of Information Act to records and files related to administration of charter school by charter management organization.

Definitions.

Appointment of director of adult education.

Adult education.

Adult education programs in New Haven and Bridgeport authorized to provide additional instructional services.

Rooms and personnel.

State grants for adult education programs.

State grants for adult education programs. Eligibility requirements.

Sections
10-72 and 10-73

Exemption may be granted by state board. Schools for non-English-speaking adults.

Adult education fees and charges; waivers. Adult education school activity fund.

Grants for adult education services or programs conforming to state plan.

State Board of Education administrative expenses for adult education.

Request of certain students to attend adult education classes. Assignment.

State aid for schools for non-English-speaking adults.

Summer courses. Charges.

Grants for remedial summer school programs.

Grants for young parents programs.

Grants for interdistrict cooperative programs.

Basic Education Training Team for Employment Readiness; state match.

School reorganization model.

CommPACT schools.

Innovation schools. Innovation plan. Evaluation. Enrollment.

Community schools.

Alternative education.

Alternative education guidelines. Identification and organization codes.

Annual report re receipt of federal funds under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Department to enter into memoranda of understanding with other state agencies re provision of special education services.

Transition resources, services and programs. Fact sheet. Collection and distribution of information.

Sections
10-75 to 10-75k

and 10-76 - Educationally exceptional children. Children requiring special education. Records. Services. Children excluded from school, when. Programs. State aid. State board to cooperate with other agencies. Mentally retarded children. Physically handicapped children. Socially and emotionally maladjusted children. Receipt of gifts and bequests. Contracts with sheltered workshops and rehabilitation centers. State aid for regional educational facilities for trainable mentally retarded children. Physically handicapped children; definition.

Definitions.

State supervision of special education programs and services. Regulations. Coordinating agency.

Sections
10-76bb and 10-76cc

Plans for programs and services for certain children requiring special education. Reimbursement for expenditures to develop plans.

Receipt and use of money and personal property.

Duties and powers of boards of education to provide special education programs and services. Medicaid enrollment, participation and billing requirements. Development of individualized education program. Planning and placement team meetings. Public agency placements; apportionment of costs. Relationship of insurance to special education costs. Prohibition on punishing members of planning and placement teams for certain behavior during meetings.

Section
10-76dd

Special education supervisory personnel.

School construction grant for cooperative regional special education facilities.

Section
10-76ee

Administrative representative required for planning and placement team meetings.

Definition of terms used in formula for state aid for special education.

Section
10-76ff

Procedures for determining if a child requires special education.

State aid for special education.

Section
10-76gg

Information on race, ethnicity and disability category of children requiring special education.

Special education hearing and review procedure. Mediation of disputes.

Section
10-76hh

Prohibition on deduction of Medicaid reimbursement in determination of grant payments.

Advisory Council for Special Education.

Section
10-76ii

Provision of applied behavior analysis services.

Five-year plan for special education.

Section
10-76jj

Language and communication plans for children identified as deaf or hard of hearing.

(Formerly Sec. 10-76i) - Development of experimental educational programs.

Section
10-76kk

Disproportionate or inappropriate identification of minority students or English language learners requiring special education. Report. Study.

Annual evaluation of special education programs.

Section
10-76ll

Bill of rights for parents of children receiving special education services.

Auditing of claims for special education assistance.

Section
10-76mm

Development of individualized education program form.

Special Education Resource Center.

Section
10-76nn

Individualized Education Program Advisory Council.

Special education at the Gilbert School, Norwich Free Academy and Woodstock Academy.

Section
10-76oo

Digital individualized education program form software. Request for proposals and evaluation. Implementation; exception.

Reimbursement where state agency makes private placement.

Section
10-76pp

Use of digital individualized education program form software by school districts.

Special education at technical education and career schools.

Sections
10-76qq to 10-76vv

Reserved for future use.

Grant payment for certain special education placements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1983.

Special education study committee.

Definitions re primary mental health program.

School-based primary mental health programs established. Grants to boards of education.

Program components. Duties of mental health professionals. Parental consent required.

Duties of department re primary mental health program.

Section
10-76ww

School-based diversion plan to reduce juvenile justice involvement among children with mental health needs.

Boards of education to contribute to program. Misuse of grants.

Section
10-76xx

Notification of student identified as gifted and talented.

Assistive devices.

Sections
10-76z and 10-76aa

Reserved for future use.

Sections
10-77 to 10-91

Education of physically or mentally handicapped children, generally.

Sections
10-91a to 10-91e

State-wide system of early intervention services: Definitions; regulations; termination; coordinating council; Medicaid reimbursement; limitation on use of funds; sliding scale for parental contributions; state right of recovery or indemnification against insurers.

Costs of education of child placed in community residence or child-care facility.

Audits of private providers of special education services.

Boards of education to provide information for purpose of audits of private providers of special education services. Audits of boards of education.

Private providers of special education services to submit to audits.

Agreements and contracts between boards of education and private providers of special education services.

Standards and process for the documentation of provision of special education services by private providers of special education services.

Submission of operating budgets of private providers of special education services.

Private providers of special education services to notify boards of education of all complaints, resolutions or outcomes, corrective actions and programming or service changes for students resulting from such complaints.

Education at Newington Children's Hospital.

Use of supplemental resources for children not eligible for special education.

Department to provide complete and accurate information re special education programs and services.

Sections
10-93 to 10-94d

Statement of costs of educational program. Grant to Newington Children's Hospital. Out-of-state education of perceptually handicapped children. Program for socially and emotionally maladjusted children at Children's Center; personnel in teachers' retirement system. Payment for children placed by Commissioner of Human Resources or other agencies. State Board of Education as custodian of special funds from government to center.

Exemption of career education program students from certain labor laws while working therein.

Definitions.

Commissioner of Education to appoint surrogate parent. Procedure for objection to or extension of said appointment.

Duration of appointment as surrogate parent. Appointment of successor surrogate parent.

Rights and liabilities of surrogate parents.

Regulations re appointment of surrogate parents.

Funding of surrogate parent program.

Surrogate parent program.

*(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Technical Education and Career School System. Board. Chairperson. Superintendent. Accreditation status. Accountability. Receipt of gifts and donations.

Student activity programs at technical education and career schools.

Sections
10-95b to 10-95d

East shore career education center. Vocational Education Extension Fund. Fees for evening vocational education program.

Vocational Education Extension Fund. Apprenticeship account.

“Technical high schools” substituted for “regional vocational-technical schools” and “vocational schools”.

Reserved for future use.

Legislative committees to meet to consider issues re the Technical Education and Career System and the state workforce. Required submissions.

Long-range plan of priorities and goals for the Technical Education and Career System. Trade programs. Capital improvement and capital equipment plan.

Information on admissions, faculty and efforts to strengthen public awareness of the technical education and career schools and the role of school craft committees.

Biennial report to the General Assembly.

Training programs for certified employees.

Study of relationship between admissions scores and performance.

Military recruiting on campus.

Closure or suspension of operations of a technical education and career school. Development of plan by State Board of Education. Transportation of students during closure or suspension of operations.

Division of postsecondary educational programs.

Superintendent of the Technical Education and Career System.

(Note: This section is effective July 1, 2022.) Executive Director of the Technical Education and Career System.

(Note: This section is effective July 1, 2022.) Technical Education and Career System board.

Plan to address vocational, technical and technological education, training and work experience for children in post-conviction justice system custody.

Identification and creation or expansion of programs in critical construction trades.

Sections
10-96 to 10-96b

Standards of approval and grants-in-aid for vocational schools and industrial arts programs; evaluation of vocational and occupational programs. Master plan for vocational and career education. Priority listing of vocational-technical school capital projects.

Indemnification of persons making gifts to department or Technical Education and Career System.

Transportation to technical education and career schools.

Inspection of school buses in operation in Technical Education and Career System.

Replacement of school buses in service in Technical Education and Career System. Report.

Vocational agricultural training.

Workforce needs.

Superintendent to consult with regional community-technical colleges and certain boards of education re career technical education programs.

Industrial account.

Sections
10-99a to 10-99d

Development of career and vocational education plans; review by state board. Grants. Annual reports. Administrative costs.

Transferred to Chapter 318, Sec. 17-624.

*(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Budget for Technical Education and Career System.

*(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Budget development and approval process for technical high school system.

List re inventory of technical and vocational equipment, supplies and materials.

(Note: This section is effective July 1, 2022.) Audits of the Technical Education and Career System.

Sections
10-100 to 10-108

Transferred to Chapter 318c, Secs. 17-660 to 17-673, inclusive.

Sections
10-108a to 10-108f

Transferred to Chapter 185b, Part I, Secs. 10a-81 to 10a-86, inclusive.

Sections
10-109 to 10-109c

Transferred to Chapter 185b, Part II, Secs. 10a-87 to 10a-90, inclusive.

Sections
10-109d and 10-110

Transferred to Chapter 185b, Part II, Secs. 10a-92 and 10a-93, respectively.

Sections
10-111 and 10-112

Practice schools. Scholarships.

Sections
10-113 to 10-116a

Transferred to Chapter 185b, Part II, Secs. 10a-94 to 10a-100, inclusive.

Sections
10-116b to 10-116k

State Scholarship Commission. Eligibility for financial assistance; award and amount; limitations for postgraduate study. Duties of Commission for Higher Education. Scholarships for graduate training of teachers in specific fields. Grants for precollege or undergraduate study to persons with restricted educational achievement and to institutions providing such persons with special services. Work-study programs. Scholarships for Vietnam era veterans. State Student Financial Assistance Commission.

Sections
10-116l to 10-116s

Transferred to Chapter 186, Secs. 10a-161 to 10a-168, inclusive.