Sec. 10-47b. Addition or withdrawal of grades.
Sec. 10-47b. Addition or withdrawal of grades. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, any regional school district which does not include all elementary
and secondary grades may add or withdraw grades in accordance with the provisions
of subdivision (1) or, if applicable, subdivision (2) of this subsection.
(1) Any regional board of education in a school district which does not include all
elementary and secondary school grades may recommend a study of the advisability of
the addition to or withdrawal of grades from the regional school district or, upon the
request of two or more of the town boards of education of the member towns, shall
recommend such a study to the chairmen of the town boards of education and chairmen
of the boards of finance or other such fiscal authorities in each town affected. Within
thirty days of receipt of such recommendation, such chairmen shall each appoint one
of the members of their boards and the chairman of the regional board of education shall
appoint one member of the regional board from each member town to a study committee.
The Commissioner of Education shall appoint a consultant to the study committee. The
study committee shall proceed in the same manner as the temporary regional school
study committee except that the expenses of the committee shall be borne by the regional
school district and shall not exceed three dollars times the number of pupils in average
daily membership of such town and regional school districts as defined in section 10-261 and the committee shall submit its report to the participating towns no later than
one year from the date of its organizational meeting. If the committee recommends a
plan for addition to or withdrawal of grades from the regional school district and the
referenda held in the manner provided in section 10-45 result in an affirmative vote in
the regional school district as a whole, the participating towns shall implement the plan.
(2) Any regional board of education in a school district which does not include all
elementary and secondary school grades and has a total of three member towns, each
with a population between three thousand and seven thousand five hundred persons
pursuant to subdivision (27) of section 10-262f and a combined population for such
towns of at least ten thousand persons, but fewer than twenty thousand persons may
recommend and develop a plan for the addition to or withdrawal of grades from the
regional school district or, upon the request of two or more of the town boards of education of the member towns, may make such recommendation and develop such a plan.
If the regional board of education recommends a plan for addition to or withdrawal of
grades from the regional school district, referenda shall be held in the manner provided
in section 10-45. If such referenda results in an affirmative vote in the regional school
district as a whole, the participating towns shall implement the plan.
(b) The procedures in subsection (a) of this section shall not be used to dissolve a
regional school district, but may be used to empower the regional school district to
administer all programs which are provided in the member towns and are under the
general supervision and control of the State Board of Education. In such case, if the
vote in each member town affirms the expansion, the town boards of education in such
member towns shall be dissolved in accordance with section 10-46a. If the vote is not
affirmative in all the member towns, but is affirmative in a majority of such towns,
the towns voting in favor of such expansion may initiate a study of the feasibility of
establishing a regional school district to administer all programs which are provided in
such towns and are under the general supervision and control of the State Board of
Education. Such study shall be initiated and conducted pursuant to sections 10-39
through 10-45. In such case, the study may be made forthwith without using the procedures for withdrawal of a town or dissolution of a regional school district provided in
sections 10-63a through 10-63c. If a second regional school district is so established by
referenda, the first regional school district shall be dissolved. The State Board of Education shall make the relevant determinations required by section 10-63c for such dissolution of an existing regional school district. The assets apportioned to the member towns
of the new regional school district may be transferred directly to said district. If secondary schools are among the assets so transferred to the new regional district, said district
shall accept applications from the remaining school districts for admission of secondary
students for a tuition based on per pupil cost for a period of at least three years after the
dissolution. The State Board of Education may withhold from the next grant paid pursuant to section 10-262i to the town or regional school districts so established an amount
equal to the proportionate share to be borne by each such district of the cost of the
services rendered by said state board during the dissolution of the regional school district.
(1969, P.A. 698, S. 11; 1971, P.A. 679, S. 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 302, 610; P.A. 79-128, S. 33, 36; P.A. 89-124, S. 9, 13;
P.A. 08-169, S. 23.)
History: 1971 act amended Subsec. (b) to add provisions concerning establishment of regional district by towns voting
affirmatively in referendum on expansion when affirmative vote is not unanimous; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner
of education for secretary of the state board of education, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-128 substituted "pupils in
average daily membership ... as defined in section 10-261" for "pupils used to compute the grants ... pursuant to section 10-262" in Subsec. (a) and substituted Sec. "10-262c" for Sec. "10-262" in Subsec. (b); P.A. 89-124 in Subsec. (b) substituted
reference to Sec. 10-262i for reference to Sec. 10-262c which was repealed by Sec. 8 of public act 88-358; P.A. 08-169
amended Subsec. (a) to add language re districts that do not include all grades, designate existing provisions as Subdiv.
(1) and add Subdiv. (2) re alternate procedure to add or withdraw grades, effective July 1, 2008.
Cited. 169 C. 613. Cited. 187 C. 187. Cited. 195 C. 24.