2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10 - Education and Culture
Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities
Section 10-95 - Technical high school system. Board. Chairperson. Superintendent. Accreditation status. Accountability.

(a) The State Board of Education may establish and maintain a state-wide system of technical high schools to be known as the technical high school system. The technical high school system shall be governed by a board that shall consist of eleven members as follows: (1) Four executives of Connecticut-based employers who shall be nominated by the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission established pursuant to section 31-3h, and appointed by the Governor, (2) five members appointed by the State Board of Education, (3) the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, and (4) the Labor Commissioner. The Governor shall appoint the chairperson. The chairperson of the technical high school system board shall serve as a nonvoting ex-officio member of the State Board of Education.

(b) The technical high school system board shall offer full-time, part-time and evening programs in vocational, technical and technological education and training. The board may make regulations controlling the admission of students to any such school. The Commissioner of Education, in accordance with policies established by the board, may appoint and remove members of the staffs of such schools and make rules for the management of and expend the funds provided for the support of such schools. The board may enter into cooperative arrangements with local and regional boards of education, private occupational schools, institutions of higher education, job training agencies and employers in order to provide general education, vocational, technical or technological education or work experience.

(c) The board and the Commissioner of Education shall jointly recommend a candidate for superintendent of the technical high school system who shall be appointed as superintendent by the State Board of Education. Such superintendent shall be responsible for the operation and administration of the technical high school system.

(d) If the New England Association of Schools and Colleges places a technical high school on probation or otherwise notifies the superintendent of the technical high school system that a technical high school is at risk of losing its accreditation, the Commissioner of Education, on behalf of the technical high school system board, shall notify the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education of such placement or problems relating to accreditation.

(e) The technical high school system board shall establish specific achievement goals for students at the technical high schools at each grade level. The board shall measure the performance of each technical high school and shall identify a set of quantifiable measures to be used. The measures shall include factors such as performance on the state-wide tenth grade mastery examination under section 10-14n, trade-related assessment tests, dropout rates and graduation rates.

(1949 Rev., S. 1404; September, 1957, P.A. 11, S. 13; 1963, P.A. 203; 1967, P.A. 751, S. 3; P.A. 75-425, S. 27, 57; P.A. 77-614, S. 73, 610; P.A. 87-496, S. 46, 110; P.A. 93-376, S. 6, 13; P.A. 98-252, S. 10, 80; P.A. 01-173, S. 59, 67; P.A. 12-116, S. 69.)

History: 1963 act added provisions for state technical institutes; 1967 act deleted provisions regarding state technical institutes, increased period for leasing vocational school facilities from four to five years and substituted “the” for “said”; P.A. 75-425 provided that public works commissioner should handle leases upon request of state board rather than the board itself; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of administrative services for public works commissioner; P.A. 87-496 substituted public works commissioner for administrative services commissioner; P.A. 93-376 changed the description of the schools, transferred authority for the appointment and removal of staff, the management of the schools and the expending of funds for their support from the board to the commissioner “in accordance with policies established by the board”, deleted requirement for the board to include a statement of expenses for the schools in a report to the governor and changed the description of arrangements that the board may enter into for purposes of providing education and work experience, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 98-252 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added new Subsec. (b) re accreditation problems, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 01-173 added Subsec. (c) re student achievement goals and school performance measures, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 12-116 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provisions re technical high school system, board and chairperson and designating existing language re duties of board as new Subsec. (b), added new Subsec. (c) re superintendent of the technical high school system, redesignated existing Subsecs. (b) and (c) as Subsecs. (d) and (e), amended redesignated Subsec. (e) by replacing reference to the State Board of Education with reference to the technical high school system board, and replaced references to the regional vocational-technical school system with references to the technical high school system and made conforming changes throughout, effective July 1, 2012.

See Sec. 10-15d re applicability of education general statutes to technical high schools.