Title 10 — Title 10: Education and Culture

Sec. 10-184. Duties of parents. School attendance age requirements. All parents and those who have the care of children shall bring them up in some lawful and honest employment and instruct them or cause them to be instructed in reading, writing, spelling, English grammar, geogra…

Sec. 10-184a. Special education programs or services for children educated in a home or private school. (a) The provisions of sections 10-76a to 10-76h, inclusive, shall not be construed to require any local, regional or state board of education to provide special education progr…

Sec. 10-184b. Waiver provisions not applicable to equivalent instruction authority of parents. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or public or special act granting the Commissioner of Education the authority to waive provisions of the general statutes, the Comm…

Sec. 10-185. Penalty. Each day's failure on the part of a person to comply with any provision of section 10-184 shall be a distinct offense, punishable by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars. Said penalty shall not be incurred when it appears that the child is destitute of c…

Sec. 10-186. Duties of local and regional boards of education re school attendance. Hearings. Appeals to state board. Establishment of hearing board. Readmission. Transfers. (a) Each local or regional board of education shall furnish, by transportation or otherwise, school accomm…

Sec. 10-187. Appeal from finding of hearing board. Any parent or guardian or emancipated minor or a pupil eighteen years of age or older or local or regional board of education aggrieved by the finding of the hearing board established by the State Board of Education rendered unde…

Sec. 10-188. Private schools and instruction. Attendance of children at a school other than a public school shall not be regarded as compliance with the laws of the state requiring parents and other persons having control of children to cause them to attend school, unless the tea…

Secs. 10-189 to 10-192. Leaving certificate. Educationally retarded children, exception. Physical examination. Employer's duty upon receiving leaving certificate. Sections 10-189 to 10-192, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1450–1453; 1955, S. 942d; P.A. 76-436, S. 472, 681…

Sec. 10-193. Certificate of age for minors in certain occupations. (a) The superintendent of schools of any local or regional board of education, or an agent designated by such superintendent, or the supervisory agent of a nonpublic school shall, upon application and in accordanc…

Sec. 10-194. Penalty. (a) Any person, whether acting for himself or herself or as agent for another, who employs any minor under the age of eighteen years at any occupation described in subsection (a) of section 10-193 without having obtained a certificate as provided therein sha…

Sec. 10-195. Evidence of age. Upon the trial of any person who has wilfully employed or has had in his or her employment or under his or her charge any child in violation of the provisions of this chapter and of any parent or guardian who has permitted any such child to be so emp…

Sec. 10-196. Agents. Section 10-196 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1457; February, 1965, P.A. 112, S. 1.)

Sec. 10-197. Penalty for employment of child under fourteen. Any person who employs a child under fourteen years of age during the hours while the school which such child should attend is in session, and any person who authorizes or permits on premises under his or her control an…

Sec. 10-198. False statement as to age. Any parent or other person having control of a child, who makes any false statement concerning the age of such child with intent to deceive any registrar of vital statistics or the teacher of any school, or instructs a child to make any suc…

Sec. 10-198a. Policies and procedures concerning truants. (a) For purposes of this section and sections 10-198c and 10-220, “truant” means a child age five to eighteen, inclusive, who is enrolled in a public or private school and has four unexcused absences from school in any one…

Sec. 10-198b. State Board of Education to define “excused absence”, “unexcused absence” and “disciplinary absence”. The State Board of Education shall define “excused absence”, “unexcused absence” and “disciplinary absence” for use by local and regional boards of education for th…

Sec. 10-198c. Attendance review teams. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Chronically absent child” means a child who is enrolled in a school under the jurisdiction of a local or regional board of education and whose total number of absences at any time during a school year is equ…

Sec. 10-198d. Chronic absenteeism prevention and intervention plan. (a) Not later than January 1, 2016, the Department of Education, in consultation with the Interagency Council for Ending the Achievement Gap established pursuant to section 10-16nn, shall develop a chronic absent…

Sec. 10-198e. Truancy intervention models. (a) The Department of Education shall identify effective truancy intervention models for implementation by local and regional boards of education pursuant to subsection (b) of section 10-198a, including intervention models that address t…

Sec. 10-198f. Mental health wellness days. (a) As used in this section and section 10-198b, “mental health wellness day” describes a school day during which a student attends to such student's emotional and psychological well-being in lieu of attending school. (b) For the school …

Sec. 10-199. Attendance officers. Duties. Any local or regional board of education may appoint one or more persons, who shall be authorized to prosecute for violations of the laws relating to attendance of children and their employment. All warrants issued upon such prosecutions …

Sec. 10-200. Habitual truants. Each city and town may adopt ordinances concerning habitual truants from school and children between the ages of five and eighteen years wandering about its streets or public places, having no lawful occupation and not attending school, and may make…

Sec. 10-201. Fees for arresting truants. Officers other than policemen of cities shall receive for making the arrests required by section 10-200 such fees, not exceeding the fees allowed by law for making other arrests, as may be allowed by the selectmen of the town in which such…

Sec. 10-202. Warrant and hearing. In all cases arising under the provisions of sections 10-200 and 10-201 a proper warrant shall be issued by a judge of the Superior Court in the jurisdiction where such arrest is made; and the parent or guardian of such child, shall be notified, …

Secs. 10-202a to 10-202d. Dropout prevention pilot program; establishment. Attendance plan. Testing; inventory of skills and interests. Programs and services; assistance; report. Sections 10-202a to 10-202d, inclusive, are repealed. (May Sp. Sess. P.A. 86-1, S. 49–52, 58; P.A. 88…

Sec. 10-202e. Policy on dropout prevention. The State Board of Education shall adopt a state policy on dropout prevention. The policy shall include, but not be limited to, the encouragement of: (1) The local identification of students in grades kindergarten to twelve, inclusive, …

Sec. 10-202f. Dropout prevention grant program. (a) Consistent with the policy adopted pursuant to section 10-202e, the Department of Education shall establish a student dropout prevention grant program, in each fiscal year in which funds are appropriated, to assist local and reg…