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Title 10 Education and Culture
Chapter 164 Educational Opportunities
- Sec. 10-15. Towns to maintain schools.
- Sec. 10-15a. Discontinuance of kindergarten programs restricted.
- Sec. 10-15b. Access of parent or guardian to student's records. Inspection and subpoena of school or student records.
- Sec. 10-15c. Discrimination in public schools prohibited. School attendance by five-year-olds.
- Sec. 10-15d. Applicability of education statutes to the Unified School Districts and the vocational-technical schools.
- Sec. 10-15e. Applicability of education statutes to incorporated or endowed high schools or academies.
- Sec. 10-15f. Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
- Sec. 10-16. Length of school year.
- Sec. 10-16a. Silent meditation.
- Sec. 10-16b. Prescribed courses of study.
- Sec. 10-16c. State board to develop family life education curriculum guides.
- Sec. 10-16d. Family life education programs not mandatory.
- Sec. 10-16e. Students not required to participate in family life education programs.
- Sec. 10-16f. Family life programs to supplement required curriculum.
- Secs. 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.
- Sec. 10-16l. Establishment of graduation date.
- Sec. 10-16m. Extended-day kindergarten. Grants.
- Sec. 10-16n. Head Start grant program. Grant allocation. Advisory committee.
- Sec. 10-16o. Development of network of school readiness programs.
- Sec. 10-16p. Definitions. Lead agency for school readiness; standards. Grant programs; eligibility. Unexpended funds.
- Sec. 10-16q. School readiness program requirements. Per child cost limitation. Sliding fee scale. Waiver from schedule requirements.
- Sec. 10-16r. Local school readiness councils; duties. Regional school readiness councils.
- Sec. 10-16s. Interagency agreement on school readiness. Assessment measures.
- Sec. 10-16t. Participation by five-year-olds in school readiness programs.
- Sec. 10-16u. Grants for school readiness programs in transitional school districts.
- Sec. 10-16v. After school committee established. Appointment of members. Report and recommendations. Acceptance of funding. Report to General Assembly.
- Sec. 10-16w. Preschool curriculum guidelines; technical assistance and training.
- Sec. 10-16x. After school program grant.
- Sec. 10-16y. Office of Early Childhood Planning, Outreach and Coordination. Duties.
- Sec. 10-16z. Early Childhood Education Cabinet. Members. Duties. Annual plan of action. Annual report.
- Sec. 10-16aa. Competitive district grant account.
- Sec. 10-17. English language to be medium of instruction. Exception.
- Sec. 10-17a. Establishment of bilingual and bicultural program.
- Secs. 10-17b and 10-17c. Instruction bilingually and biculturally; procedures, materials and equipment; purpose. Advice and assistance of state board; evaluation of programs.
- Sec. 10-17d. Application for and receipt of federal funds.
- Sec. 10-17e. Definitions.
- Sec. 10-17f. Duties of boards of education regarding bilingual education programs. Development of state English mastery standard. Regulations.
- Sec. 10-17g. Application for grant. Annual evaluation report.
- Sec. 10-17h. Planning, development or operation of initially required bilingual program.
- Sec. 10-17i. Encouragement of increased language instruction. Proficiency in language recognized on permanent record.
- Sec. 10-17j. 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.
- Sec. 10-18. Courses in United States history, government and duties and responsibilities of citizenship.
- Sec. 10-18a. Contents of textbooks and other general instructional materials.
- Sec. 10-18b. Development of curriculum guides for firearm safety programs.
- Sec. 10-18c. Firearm safety programs. Exemption from participation.
- Sec. 10-19. Teaching about alcohol, nicotine or tobacco, drugs and acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Training of personnel.
- Sec. 10-19a. Superintendent to designate substance abuse prevention team. Training of team members.
- Sec. 10-19b. Advisory councils on drug abuse prevention.
- Sec. 10-19c. Program for careers in information technology.
- Sec. 10-19d. High school mathematics and science challenge pilot program.
- Sec. 10-19e. "Future Scholars" pilot matching grant program.
- Secs. 10-19f to 10-19l.
- Sec. 10-19m. (Formerly Sec. 17a-39). *(See end of section for amended version of subsection (c) and effective date.) Youth service bureaus. Annual report. Regulations.
- Sec. 10-19n. (Formerly Sec. 17a-40). State aid for establishment and expansion of youth service bureaus.
- Sec. 10-19o. (Formerly Sec. 17a-40a). Youth service bureau grant program.
- Sec. 10-19p. (Formerly Sec. 17a-41). Assistance to youth service bureaus.
- Sec. 10-19q. Enhancement grant for youth service bureaus.
- Sec. 10-20. Comptroller may withhold school money.
- Sec. 10-20a. Connecticut career certificate program.
- Sec. 10-20b. Connecticut career certificate. Compliance with federal laws and regulations, required.
- Sec. 10-20c. Issuance of Connecticut career certification. Credit for program.
- Sec. 10-20d. Grants for support of Connecticut career certificate programs.
- Sec. 10-20e. Awarding of grants.
- Sec. 10-20f. Retention of appropriated funds, when.
- Sec. 10-21. Vocational guidance.
- Sec. 10-21a. Accredited courses offered by employers.
- Sec. 10-21b. Programs offered jointly by boards of education and business firms; neighborhood assistance.
- Sec. 10-21c. Donation of teaching services by private sector specialists; neighborhood assistance.
- Secs. 10-21d and 10-21e. School-Business Forum; membership; procedures. School-Business Forum; responsibilities; termination.
- Sec. 10-21f. Career ladder programs.
- Sec. 10-21g. "Generation Next" pilot program.
- Secs. 10-22 and 10-23. Instruction in music. Instruction on highway safety.
- Sec. 10-24.
- Sec. 10-24a. (Formerly Sec. 14-157). State grants for motor vehicle operation and highway safety course.
- Sec. 10-24b. Fee when course offered outside regular school hours.
- Sec. 10-24c. Grants for motor vehicle operation and highway safety courses in private secondary schools.
- Sec. 10-24d.
- Sec. 10-24e. Regulations concerning content of safe driving course.
- Sec. 10-25. Secondary education for veterans.
- Sec. 10-26. Education grant to child of deceased or disabled veteran or missing in action member of armed forces.
- Sec. 10-27. International studies, exchange programs. Advisory committee.
- Sec. 10-27a. International education programs, recognition of schools and partnership programs.
- Sec. 10-28.
- Sec. 10-28a. Advice and assistance to school library media centers.
- Sec. 10-28b. School volunteers; information and assistance about; state-wide coordinator; state plan.
- Sec. 10-29. Library service center in Middlesex County.
- Sec. 10-29a. Certain days, weeks and months to be proclaimed by Governor. Distribution and number of proclamations.
- Sec. 10-29b. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission.
- Secs. 10-30 and 10-30a. Certain days to be proclaimed by Governor; distribution and number of proclamations. Proclamation of Hat Day prohibited.
- Secs. 10-31 and 10-32. Establishment and maintenance. Duties of town board of education.
- Sec. 10-33. Tuition in towns in which no high school is maintained.
- Sec. 10-34. Approval by state board of incorporated or endowed high school or academy.
- Sec. 10-35. Notice of discontinuance of high school service to nonresidents. Cooperative arrangements and school building projects for school accommodations.
- Sec. 10-36. Agreements with Gilbert School and Woodstock Academy.
- Secs. 10-37 and 10-38. Transportation within the town. Joint high schools.
- Sec. 10-38a. Maintenance of postsecondary schools.
- Secs. 10-38b to 10-38i.
- Sec. 10-38j. Recommendations for expansion of higher educational opportunities.
- Secs. 10-38k and 10-38l.
- Sec. 10-39. Temporary regional school study committee.
- Sec. 10-40. Appointment of committee members.
- Sec. 10-41. Officers and records of committee.
- Sec. 10-42. Expenses of committee.
- Sec. 10-43. Reports to towns. Dissolution of committee.
- Sec. 10-44. Disposition of committee records.
- Sec. 10-45. Referendum on establishment of regional districts or addition or withdrawal of grades.
- Sec. 10-46. Regional board of education.
- Sec. 10-46a. Transfer of responsibility to regional board.
- Sec. 10-47. Powers of regional board. Meetings.
- Sec. 10-47a. Withdrawal of grades.
- Sec. 10-47b. Addition or withdrawal of grades.
- Sec. 10-47c. Amendment of plan.
- Secs. 10-48 and 10-49. Relocation of site. Site in town outside district.
- Sec. 10-49a. Site in town outside district.
- Sec. 10-50. Admission of adjacent town to district.
- Sec. 10-51. Fiscal year. Budget. Payments by member towns; adjustments to payments. Investment of funds. Temporary borrowing. Reserve funds.
- Sec. 10-51a. Petition to determine deficiency in town payment.
- Sec. 10-51b. Reserve fund for employee sick leave and severance benefits.
- Sec. 10-52. Adult education.
- Sec. 10-53. Application of education statutes.
- Sec. 10-54. Transportation grants.
- Sec. 10-55. Pupils to attend regional school.
- Sec. 10-56. Corporate powers. Bond issues.
- Secs. 10-57 and 10-58. Debt limitation. Investment of proceeds of bond issue.
- Sec. 10-58a. Default of district in payment on bonds or notes. Withholding of state aid.
- Sec. 10-59. Fiscal year. Budget.
- Sec. 10-60. Borrowing in addition to bonds.
- Sec. 10-60a. Refunding bonds.
- Secs. 10-61 to 10-63. Withdrawal of town. Dissolution of district. Payment of indebtedness on dissolution of district.
- Sec. 10-63a. Vote for withdrawal of town or dissolution of district.
- Sec. 10-63b. Committee to study issues relating to withdrawal or dissolution.
- Sec. 10-63c. Report of committee.
- Secs. 10-63d and 10-63e. Submission of final plan; publication of notice. Special town meetings on proposal.
- Sec. 10-63f. Obligations not affected by action.
- Sec. 10-63g. Withdrawal and dissolution restricted.
- Sec. 10-63h. Applicability to existing regional school districts.
- Sec. 10-63i. Regional school district established before June 24, 1969.
- Sec. 10-63j. "Representation", defined.
- Sec. 10-63k. Regional school reapportionment committee.
- Sec. 10-63l. Powers of regional school reapportionment committee.
- Sec. 10-63m. Approval or rejection of plan recommended by regional school reapportionment committee.
- Sec. 10-63n. Referendum for regional school reapportionment. Establishment of plan.
- Sec. 10-63o. Execution of reapportionment plan.
- Sec. 10-63p. Time limits for reapportionment. Right to compel compliance.
- Sec. 10-63q. Notification as to constitutionality of regional board representation following decennial census.
- Sec. 10-63r. Establishment of new plan of representation permitted after initial reapportionment.
- Sec. 10-63s. Duties of Commissioner of Education. Actions of regional board to be by weighted vote.
- Sec. 10-63t. Applicability of reapportionment requirements.
- Secs. 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.
- Sec. 10-64. Establishment of regional agricultural science and technology education centers. Moratorium; exception. Tuition and transportation.
- Sec. 10-65. Grants for constructing and operating agricultural science and technology education centers. Tuition charges.
- Sec. 10-65a. Plan to increase racial and ethnic diversity.
- Sec. 10-65b. Provision of student's nonagricultural academic courses; shared-time arrangements.
- Sec. 10-66. Regulations.
- Sec. 10-66a. Establishment.
- Sec. 10-66b. Operation and management. Board.
- Sec. 10-66c. Powers of board of center.
- Sec. 10-66d. Participation by boards of education and nonpublic schools.
- Sec. 10-66e. Payment of expenses.
- Sec. 10-66f. Participation in programs of other centers. Joint action by centers.
- Sec. 10-66g. Budget and projected revenues statement. Annual audit.
- Sec. 10-66h. Annual evaluation of programs and services.
- Sec. 10-66i. Applicability of statutes. Receipt of payments.
- Sec. 10-66j. Regulations. Annual grants, proportional reduction. Requirement for use of part of grant. Support of regional efforts to recruit and retain minority educators and support of collection and analysis of data on reduction of racial, ethnic and economic isolation.
- Sec. 10-66k. Revocation of participation; effect on pledge for security of bonds. Existence of center and repayment of obligations.
- Sec. 10-66l. Boards of education may join center within or outside area.
- Sec. 10-66m. Other cooperative agreements not affected.
- Sec. 10-66n. Grants for identifying and disseminating information re exemplary classroom projects.
- Sec. 10-66o. Provision of goods and services to boards of education.
- Sec. 10-66p. Allocation and expenditure of funds for professional development services, technical assistance and evaluation activities.
- Secs. 10-66q to 10-66z.
- Sec. 10-66aa. Charter schools: Definitions.
- Sec. 10-66bb. Application process and requirements. Charter renewal. Probation. Revocation.
- Sec. 10-66cc. School profile. Report.
- Sec. 10-66dd. School professionals employed in charter schools. Charter schools subject to laws governing public schools; exceptions; waivers. Participation in the state teacher retirement system.
- Sec. 10-66ee. Charter school funding. Special education students. Transportation. Contracts. Cooperative arrangements.
- Sec. 10-66ff. Powers. Liability limited. Participation in Short-Term Investment Fund.
- Sec. 10-66gg. Report to General Assembly.
- Sec. 10-66hh. Program to assist charter schools with capital expenses.
- Sec. 10-66ii. Report on best practices employed by charter schools.
- Sec. 10-66jj. Bond authorization for program to assist charter schools with capital expenses.
- Sec. 10-66kk. Governing council. Internet posting of meeting schedules, agendas and minutes. Membership.
- Sec. 10-66ll. Random audits of charter schools.
- Sec. 10-66mm. Regulations concerning management of charter schools.
- Sec. 10-67. Definitions.
- Sec. 10-68. Appointment of director of adult education.
- Sec. 10-69. Adult education.
- Sec. 10-70. Rooms and personnel.
- Sec. 10-71. State grants for adult education programs.
- Sec. 10-71a. State grants for adult education programs. Eligibility requirements.
- Secs. 10-72 and 10-73. Exemption may be granted by state board. Schools for non-English-speaking adults.
- Sec. 10-73a. Adult education fees and charges; waivers. Adult education school activity fund.
- Sec. 10-73b. Grants for adult education services or programs conforming to state plan.
- Sec. 10-73c. State Board of Education administrative expenses for adult education.
- Sec. 10-73d. Request of certain students to attend adult education classes. Assignment.
- Sec. 10-74. State aid for schools for non-English-speaking adults.
- Sec. 10-74a. Summer courses. Charges.
- Sec. 10-74b. Grants for remedial summer school programs.
- Sec. 10-74c. Grants for young parents programs.
- Sec. 10-74d. Grants for interdistrict cooperative programs.
- Sec. 10-74e. Basic Education Training Team for Employment Readiness; state match.
- Sec. 10-74f. School reorganization model.
- Sec. 10-74g. CommPACT schools.
- Sec. 10-74h. Innovation schools. Innovation plan. Evaluation. Enrollment.
- Secs. 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.
- Sec. 10-76a. Definitions.
- Sec. 10-76b. State supervision of special education programs and services. Regulations. Coordinating agency.
- Sec. 10-76c. Receipt and use of money and personal property.
- Sec. 10-76d. Duties and powers of boards of education to provide special education programs and services. Determination of eligibility for Medicaid. Development of individualized education program. Planning and placement team meetings. Public agency placements; apportionment of costs. Relationship of insurance to special education costs.
- Sec. 10-76e. School construction grant for cooperative regional special education facilities.
- Sec. 10-76f. Definition of terms used in formula for state aid for special education.
- Sec. 10-76g. State aid for special education.
- Sec. 10-76h. Special education hearing and review procedure. Mediation of disputes.
- Sec. 10-76i. Advisory Council for Special Education.
- Sec. 10-76j. Five-year plan for special education.
- Sec. 10-76k. (Formerly Sec. 10-76i). Development of experimental educational programs.
- Sec. 10-76l. Annual evaluation of special education programs.
- Sec. 10-76m. Auditing of claims for special education assistance.
- Sec. 10-76n. Special Education Resource Center.
- Sec. 10-76o. Special education at the Gilbert School, Norwich Free Academy and Woodstock Academy.
- Sec. 10-76p. Reimbursement where state agency makes private placement.
- Sec. 10-76q. Special education at regional vocational-technical schools.
- Sec. 10-76r. Grant payment for certain special education placements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1983.
- Sec. 10-76s. Special education study committee.
- Sec. 10-76t. Definitions re primary mental health program.
- Sec. 10-76u. School-based primary mental health programs established. Grants to boards of education.
- Sec. 10-76v. Program components. Duties of mental health professionals. Parental consent required.
- Sec. 10-76w. Duties of department re primary mental health program.
- Sec. 10-76x. Boards of education to contribute to program. Misuse of grants.
- Sec. 10-76y. Assistive devices.
- Secs. 10-76z and 10-76aa.
- Secs. 10-76bb and 10-76cc. Plans for programs and services for certain children requiring special education. Reimbursement for expenditures to develop plans.
- Sec. 10-76dd. Special education supervisory personnel.
- Sec. 10-76ee. Administrative representative required for planning and placement team meetings.
- Sec. 10-76ff. Procedures for determining if a child requires special education.
- Sec. 10-76gg. Information on race, ethnicity and disability category of children requiring special education.
- Sec. 10-76hh. Prohibition on deduction of Medicaid reimbursement in determination of grant payments.
- Sec. 10-76ii. Provision of applied behavior analysis services.
- Secs. 10-77 to 10-91. Education of physically or mentally handicapped children, generally.
- Secs. 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.
- Sec. 10-91f. Costs of education of child placed in community residence or child-care facility.
- Sec. 10-92. Education at Newington Children's Hospital.
- Sec. 10-92a. Use of supplemental resources for children not eligible for special education.
- Secs. 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.
- Sec. 10-94e. Exemption of career education program students from certain labor laws while working therein.
- Sec. 10-94f. Definitions.
- Sec. 10-94g. Commissioner of Education to appoint surrogate parent. Procedure for objection to or extension of said appointment.
- Sec. 10-94h. Duration of appointment as surrogate parent. Appointment of successor surrogate parent.
- Sec. 10-94i. Rights and liabilities of surrogate parents.
- Sec. 10-94j. Regulations re appointment of surrogate parents.
- Sec. 10-94k. Funding of surrogate parent program.
- Sec. 10-95. Vocational-technical schools. Accreditation status. Accountability.
- Sec. 10-95a. Student activity programs at state regional vocational-technical schools.
- Secs. 10-95b to 10-95d. East shore career education center. Vocational Education Extension Fund. Fees for evening vocational education program.
- Sec. 10-95e. Vocational Education Extension Fund. Apprenticeship account.
- Secs. 10-95f and 10-95g.
- Sec. 10-95h. Legislative committees to meet with superintendent of regional vocational-technical school system, director of Office of Workforce Competitiveness and Labor Commissioner to consider issues re the regional vocational-technical school system and the state workforce. Required submissions.
- Sec. 10-95i. Long-range plan of priorities and goals for the regional vocational-technical school system. Trade programs. Capital equipment plan.
- Sec. 10-95j. Information on admissions, faculty and efforts to strengthen public awareness of the regional vocational-technical schools and the role of school craft committees.
- Sec. 10-95k. Biennial report to the General Assembly.
- Sec. 10-95l. Training programs for certified employees.
- Sec. 10-95m. Study of relationship between admissions scores and performance.
- Sec. 10-95n. Military recruiting on campus.
- Sec. 10-95o. Closure or suspension of operations of a regional vocational-technical school. Development of plan by State Board of Education. Transportation of students during closure or suspension of operations.
- Secs. 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.
- Sec. 10-97. Transportation to vocational schools.
- Sec. 10-97a. Inspection of school buses in operation in regional vocational-technical school system.
- Sec. 10-97b. Replacement of school buses in service in regional vocational-technical school system. Report.
- Sec. 10-98. Vocational agricultural training.
- Sec. 10-98a. Workforce needs.
- Sec. 10-99. Industrial account.
- Secs. 10-99a to 10-99d. Development of career and vocational education plans; review by state board. Grants. Annual reports. Administrative costs.
- Sec. 10-99e.
- Sec. 10-99f. Budget for regional vocational-technical school system.
- Sec. 10-99g. Submission of operating budget and expenses for each regional vocational-technical school. Posting of operating budget on web site.
- Secs. 10-100 to 10-108.
- Secs. 10-108a to 10-108f.
- Secs. 10-109 to 10-109c.
- Secs. 10-109d and 10-110.
- Secs. 10-111 and 10-112. Practice schools. Scholarships.
- Secs. 10-113 to 10-116a.
- Secs. 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.
- Secs. 10-116l to 10-116s.
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