Sec. 10-64. Establishment of regional agricultural science and technology education centers. Moratorium; exception. Tuition and transportation.
Sec. 10-64. Establishment of regional agricultural science and technology education centers. Moratorium; exception. Tuition and transportation. (a) Any local
or regional board of education may enter into agreements with other such boards of
education to establish a regional agricultural science and technology education center
in conjunction with its regular public school system, provided such center shall have a
regional agricultural science and technology education consulting committee which
shall advise the operating board of education but shall have no legal authority with
respect to such center. Such agreements may include matters pertaining to the admission
of students, including the establishment of a reasonable number of available program
acceptances and the criteria for program acceptance. Each board of education shall
appoint to said committee two representatives, who have a competent knowledge of
agriculture or aquaculture, as appropriate, and who need not be members of such board.
(b) No new agricultural science and technology education center shall be approved
by the State Board of Education pursuant to section 10-65 during the three-year period
from July 1, 1993, to June 30, 1996, except that the State Board of Education may
approve such a center if it is to be operated by the board of education of a local or
regional school district with fifteen thousand or more resident students, as defined in
subdivision (19) of section 10-262f. If a new regional agricultural science and technology education center is established for a school district pursuant to this subsection,
any resident student of such school district who, during the school year immediately
preceding the initial operation of such center, was enrolled in grades 10 to 12, inclusive,
in a regional agricultural science and technology education center operated by another
local or regional board of education, may continue to be enrolled in such regional agricultural science and technology education center.
(c) For purposes of this section and sections 10-65 and 10-66, the term "agricultural
science and technology education" includes vocational aquaculture and marine-related
employment.
(d) Any local or regional board of education which does not furnish agricultural
science and technology education approved by the State Board of Education shall designate a school or schools having such a course approved by the State Board of Education
as the school which any person may attend who has completed an elementary school
course through the eighth grade. The board of education shall pay the tuition and reasonable and necessary cost of transportation of any person under twenty-one years of age
who is not a graduate of a high school or vocational school or an agricultural science
and technology center and who attends the designated school, provided transportation
services may be suspended in accordance with the provisions of section 10-233c. Each
such board's reimbursement percentage pursuant to section 10-266m for expenditures
in excess of eight hundred dollars per pupil incurred in the fiscal year beginning July
1, 2004, and in each fiscal year thereafter, shall be increased by an additional twenty
percentage points.
(1955, S. 920d; 1967, P.A. 638, S. 1; P.A. 78-218, S. 47; P.A. 89-387, S. 36, 41; P.A. 93-410, S. 1, 6; P.A. 04-197, S.
2; P.A. 08-152, S. 1; 08-170, S. 19.)
History: 1967 act made provisions applicable to town and regional boards of education and allowed two representatives
on committee for each board, rather than one representative for first fifty farms in district and one for each additional fifty
farms; P.A. 78-218 referred to "local and regional" boards rather than "town and regional" boards; P.A. 89-387 amended
prior provisions, redesignated as Subsec. (a), to include reference to aquaculture and added new Subsec. (b) defining
"vocational agriculture"; P.A. 93-410 amended Subsec. (a) to specify that the agreements may include matters pertaining
to the admission of students, relettered Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c) and inserted new Subsec. (b) pertaining to a moratorium
on the establishment of new centers, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 04-197 added Subsec. (d) re provision, tuition and
transportation for vocational agricultural training when not provided by district, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 08-152 and
08-170 changed "vocational agriculture" to "agricultural science and technology education", effective July 1, 2008.