Title 10, Title 10: Education and Culture

Sec. 10-71. State grants for adult education programs. (a) Each local or regional board of education or regional educational service center which has submitted an adult education proposal to the State Board of Education pursuant to section 10-71a shall, annually, be eligible to r…

Sec. 10-71a. State grants for adult education programs. Eligibility requirements. To be eligible for aid pursuant to section 10-71 or pursuant to requirements of federal law, a local or regional board of education, or a regional educational service center which provides, or a loc…

Secs. 10-72 and 10-73. Exemption may be granted by state board. Schools for non-English-speaking adults. Sections 10-72 and 10-73 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1390, 1391; 1961, P.A. 512, S. 3; P.A. 78-218, S. 56; P.A. 81-397, S. 9.)

Sec. 10-73a. Adult education fees and charges; waivers. Adult education school activity fund. (a) Tuition or registration fees shall not be charged by any school district to adults enrolled in any adult class or program required under subparagraph (A) of subsection (a) of section…

Sec. 10-73b. Grants for adult education services or programs conforming to state plan. Any local or regional board of education, except a state-operated school district, which provides programs or services of adult education which conform to the state plan approved under the prov…

Sec. 10-73c. State Board of Education administrative expenses for adult education. A local or regional board of education or a regional educational service center which provides programs or services of adult education which are approved pursuant to the provisions of section 10-71…

Sec. 10-73d. Request of certain students to attend adult education classes. Assignment. A public school student who is both under seventeen years of age and a parent may request permission from the local or regional board of education to attend adult education classes. The local …

Sec. 10-74. State aid for schools for non-English-speaking adults. Section 10-74 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1392; 1961, P.A. 512, S. 3.)

Sec. 10-74a. Summer courses. Charges. Any local or regional board of education may establish and maintain a program of courses of instruction during the summer months for school children on a voluntary basis and may charge for each child attending a reasonable fee not to exceed t…

Sec. 10-74b. Grants for remedial summer school programs. Section 10-74b is repealed. (P.A. 85-576, S. 1, 2; P.A. 88-191, S. 1, 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7, S. 21, 22.)

Sec. 10-74c. Grants for young parents programs. (a) The Department of Education shall establish a young parents grant program in each fiscal year in which funds are appropriated for the purpose of assisting local and regional boards of education with the establishment or maintena…

Sec. 10-74d. Grants for interdistrict cooperative programs. (a) The Department of Education shall, within available appropriations and after payments made pursuant to section 10-266j and for purposes of subsection (d) of section 10-266aa, maintain a competitive grant program for …

Sec. 10-74e. Basic Education Training Team for Employment Readiness; state match. Section 10-74e is repealed, effective July 1, 1998. (P.A. 86-333, S. 23, 32; P.A. 98-252, S. 79, 80; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 105, 121.)

Sec. 10-74f. School reorganization model. Each local or regional board of education with jurisdiction over an elementary or middle school that fails to meet performance benchmarks in mathematics, reading, or both, as determined under the state-wide performance management and supp…

Sec. 10-74g. CommPACT schools. A local or regional board of education may, through agreement with the organizations designated or elected as the exclusive representatives of the teachers' and administrators' units, as defined in section 10-153b, for the teachers and administrator…

Sec. 10-74h. Innovation schools. Innovation plan. Evaluation. Enrollment. (a) A local or regional board of education for a school district identified as a priority school district, pursuant to section 10-266p, may, through agreement with the organizations designated or elected as…

Sec. 10-74i. Community schools. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Community school” means a public school that participates in a coordinated, community-based effort with community partners to provide comprehensive educational, developmental, family, health and wrap-around service…

Sec. 10-74j. Alternative education. (a) As used in this section, “alternative education” means a school or program maintained and operated by a local or regional board of education that is offered to students in a nontraditional educational setting and addresses the social, emoti…

Sec. 10-74k. Alternative education guidelines. Identification and organization codes. (a) The Department of Education shall develop guidelines for the provision of alternative education, as defined in section 10-74j. Such guidelines shall include, but not be limited to, a descrip…

Sec. 10-74l. Annual report re receipt of federal funds under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Education shall submit an annual report regarding federal funds received pursuant…

Sec. 10-74m. Memoranda of understanding with other state agencies re provision of special education services. Liaisons from other state agencies to State-wide Transition Services Coordinator. (a) The Department of Education shall enter into memoranda of understanding with the Off…

Sec. 10-74n. Transition resources, services and programs. Online listing. Collection of information and annual update. Online posting and distribution. (a) The Department of Education's State-wide Transition Services Coordinator, established pursuant to section 10-74o, in collabo…

Sec. 10-74o. State-wide Transition Services Coordinator, duties. (a) As used in this section and sections 10-74q and 10-74r: (1) “Transition service” has the same meaning as provided in 34 CFR 300.43, as amended from time to time; (2) “Transition resources” means sources of infor…

Sec. 10-74p. Training program re special education and transition services. The Department of Education's Bureau of Special Education shall develop by July 1, 2024, and update at least annually, a training program concerning the legal requirements and best practice recommendation…

Sec. 10-74q. Training programs for transition coordinators, educators and paraeducators. (a) Not later than July 1, 2024, the Department of Education, in consultation with the Departments of Developmental Services and Aging and Disability Services and the regional educational ser…

Sec. 10-74r. Deadline to complete training for transition coordinators, educators and paraeducators. (a) Not later than January 1, 2024, each local and regional board of education shall ensure that a transition coordinator has been designated, who may be the director of pupil per…

Sec. 10-74s. Decision-making options once child reaches eighteen years of age. Not later than July 1, 2024, the Department of Education shall, in consultation with disability rights advocacy groups in the state, develop a plain-language online resource for students and parents, g…

Sec. 10-74t. Reporting on aggregate number of students who received information re transition services and programs for adults with disabilities. Not later than July 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Department of Education shall report to each state agency that provides serv…

Sec. 10-74u. Annual audits of special education programs. The Department of Education shall conduct audits of special education programs in randomly selected school districts each year to oversee the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 USC 1400 e…

Sec. 10-74v. Informational handout for students with individual education program or Section 504 plan re rights in the classroom. Not later than January 1, 2024, the Department of Education shall develop an informational handout for students that explains what it means for a stud…

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 cooperate with other agencies. Mentally retarded children. Physically handicapped…

Sec. 10-76a. Definitions. Whenever used in sections 10-76a to 10-76i, inclusive: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Education. (2) “Child” means any person twenty-two years of age or younger or, for children requiring special education, until such child is graduated fro…

Sec. 10-76aa. Requests for mediation. (a) A parent or guardian of a child requiring special education and related services, pursuant to sections 10-76a to 10-76g, inclusive, a child if such child is an emancipated minor or eighteen years of age or older requiring such services, a…

Sec. 10-76b. State supervision of special education programs and services. Regulations. Coordinating agency. (a) The State Board of Education shall provide for the development and supervision of the educational programs and services for children requiring special education and ma…

Secs. 10-76bb and 10-76cc. Plans for programs and services for certain children requiring special education. Reimbursement for expenditures to develop plans. Sections 10-76bb and 10-76cc are repealed. (P.A. 87-464, S. 3, 4, 8; P.A. 92-262, S. 41, 42.)

Sec. 10-76c. Receipt and use of money and personal property. The State Board of Education or any local or regional board of education may receive money, securities or other personal property by gift, devise or bequest to be used for the education of children requiring special edu…

Sec. 10-76d. Duties and powers of boards of education to provide special education programs and services. Medicaid enrollment, participation and billing requirements. Development of individualized education program. Planning and placement team meetings. Public agency placements; …

Sec. 10-76dd. Special education supervisory personnel. (a) Each local or regional board of education shall employ the number of certified personnel, licensed personnel, supervisory personnel and support personnel necessary to implement the special education and related services r…

Sec. 10-76e. School construction grant for cooperative regional special education facilities. Any school district which agrees to provide special education, as part of a long-term regional plan approved by the State Board of Education, for children requiring special education who…

Sec. 10-76ee. Administrative representative required for planning and placement team meetings. An administrative representative shall be included in planning and placement team meetings for each child requiring special education pursuant to the provisions of sections 10-76a to 10…

Sec. 10-76f. Definition of terms used in formula for state aid for special education. For the purposes of sections 10-76a to 10-76g, inclusive: (1) “Per pupil cost” in a school district is the quotient of net current expenditures and such school district's average daily membershi…

Sec. 10-76ff. Procedures for determining if a child requires special education. (a) Each local and regional board of education shall, without delay, follow the procedures outlined in this section and in accordance with applicable federal law and regulations in determining if a ch…

Sec. 10-76g. State aid for special education. (a)(1) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1984, and each fiscal year thereafter, in any case in which special education is being provided at a private residential institution, including the residential components of regional educatio…

Sec. 10-76gg. Information on race, ethnicity and disability category of children requiring special education. (a) Each local and regional board of education shall provide to the Department of Education such information on race, ethnicity and disability category of children requir…

Sec. 10-76h. Special education hearing and review procedure. Mediation of disputes. (a)(1) A parent or guardian of a child requiring special education and related services pursuant to sections 10-76a to 10-76g, inclusive, a pupil if such pupil is an emancipated minor or eighteen …

Sec. 10-76hh. Prohibition on deduction of Medicaid reimbursement in determination of grant payments. On and after July 1, 2006, and for each succeeding fiscal year thereafter, in determining costs eligible for reimbursement pursuant to subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection (e) o…