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Chapter 164

• 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 distric
• 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.
• 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. Early Childhood Education Cabinet assessment measures. Accountability. Quality standards. Workforce development plan.
• 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. 10-17. 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
• 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 an
• 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.
• Sec. 10-66ee. Charter school funding. Special education students. Transportation. Contracts.
• 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. 10-67. 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.
• 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 c
• 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. Pl
• 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.
• 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
• 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 emot
• 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. Advisory committee on regional vocational-technical schools.
• 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.
• 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 c
• Sec. 10-97. Transportation to vocational schools.
• 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.
• 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. Scholarsh
• Secs. 10-116l to 10-116s.