Sec. 10-226g. Intergroup relations training for teachers.
Sec. 10-226g. Intergroup relations training for teachers. Each regional and local board of education may, in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed
by the State Board of Education, provide a program in intergroup relations training for
all teachers employed in the public schools of the district. In addition, each such board
may select one of its employees to assume responsibility as coordinator of intergroup
relations. No regulation of the State Board of Education shall require a local or regional
board of education to hire new personnel to carry out the purposes of subsection (b) of
section 10-145a, section 10-226f and this section. Each such coordinator shall, utilizing
local resources to the extent available, with the assistance of the coordinator of intergroup relations for the State Board of Education: (1) Provide for the conduct of workshops and training programs in intergroup relations for all teachers in each school; (2)
evaluate, and recommend the use of, textbooks and curricula material concerning racial
and cultural minorities; and (3) introduce and implement programs of intergroup relations in such schools.
(P.A. 75-372, S. 2; P.A. 78-218, S. 154; P.A. 81-472, S. 125, 159.)
History: P.A. 78-218 specified applicability to regional and local boards, deleted reference to town boards and school
districts and deleted obsolete reference to December 1, 1975, as deadline for provision of teacher training program in
intergroup relations; P.A. 81-472 made technical changes.
See Sec. 10-226f re coordinator of intergroup relations.