Sec. 10-239a. Demonstration scholarship program. Short title. Legislative intent.
Sec. 10-239a. Demonstration scholarship program. Short title. Legislative intent. Sections 10-239a to 10-239h, inclusive, shall be known and may be cited as the
Demonstration Scholarship Program Authorization Act of 1972. It is the intent of the
legislature to enable up to six local or regional boards of education to participate in a
demonstration program designed to develop and test the use of education scholarships
for school children. The purpose of this demonstration scholarship program is to develop
and test education scholarships as a way to improve the quality of education by making
schools, both public and private, more responsive to the needs of children and parents,
to provide greater parental choice, and to determine the extent to which the quality and
delivery of educational services are affected by economic incentives. The demonstration
scholarship program authorized by sections 10-239a to 10-239h, inclusive, shall aid
students and shall not be used to support or to benefit any particular schools.
(1972, P.A. 122, S. 1; P.A. 78-218, S. 170.)
History: P.A. 78-218 substituted "local" for "town" boards of education.