Title 10 — Title 10: Education and Culture

Sec. 10-223n. Publication of completion rates of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Not later than July 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Department of Education shall publish and make available on its Internet web site the student completion rate of the Free Appli…

Sec. 10-224. Duties of the secretary. The secretary of the board of education shall keep a record of all its proceedings in a book which such secretary shall provide for that purpose at the expense of the town and shall submit to the town at its annual meetings a report of the do…

Sec. 10-225. Salaries of secretary and attendance officers. The salaries and compensation of the secretary of the board of education and of the attendance officers may be fixed by the town, as provided in section 7-460, but, until the town acts, the board of education shall fix s…

Sec. 10-226. Reports to Commissioner of Education. Each local and regional board of education shall annually, before the first of October, return to the Commissioner of Education the name and the address of employment and contractual annual salary, or the equivalent thereof, of e…

Sec. 10-226a. Documentation of pupils and teachers of racial minorities and pupils eligible for free or reduced price lunches. (a) Each local or regional board of education shall annually submit to the State Board of Education at such time and in such manner as the state board ma…

Sec. 10-226b. Existence of racial imbalance. (a) Whenever the State Board of Education finds that racial imbalance exists in a public school, it shall notify in writing the board of education having jurisdiction over said school that such finding has been made, except the State B…

Sec. 10-226c. Plan to correct imbalance. (a) Any board of education receiving notification of the existence of racial imbalance as specified in section 10-226b shall forthwith prepare a plan to correct such imbalance and file a copy of said plan with the State Board of Education,…

Sec. 10-226d. Approval of plan by state board. Upon receipt of any plan required under the provisions of subsection (b) of section 10-226c, the State Board of Education shall review said plan. If it determines that the plan is satisfactory, it shall approve the plan and shall pro…

Sec. 10-226e. Regulations. The State Board of Education shall have the authority to establish regulations for the operation of sections 10-226a to 10-226e, inclusive, including times and procedures for reports to said board, and the criteria for approval of plans to correct racia…

Sec. 10-226f. Coordinator of intergroup relations. The State Board of Education shall select one of its employees to assume responsibility, in addition to whatever other duties said board may prescribe, as coordinator of intergroup relations, and shall prescribe duties for such c…

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 …

Sec. 10-226h. Programs and methods to reduce racial, ethnic and economic isolation. (a) A local or regional board of education for purposes of subdivision (3) of section 10-4a, may offer such programs or use such methods as: (1) Interdistrict magnet school programs; (2) charter s…

Sec. 10-227. Returns of receipts, expenditures and statistics to Commissioner of Education. Verification mandated. Penalty. Publication. (a) Each board of education shall cause the superintendent to make returns not later than September first of each year to the Commissioner of E…

Sec. 10-228. Free textbooks, supplies, material and equipment. Each local and regional board of education shall purchase such books, either as regular texts, as supplementary books or as library books, and such supplies, material and equipment, as it deems necessary to meet the n…

Sec. 10-228a. Free textbook loans to pupils attending nonpublic schools. Each local and regional board of education may, at the request of any nonpublic elementary or secondary school pupil, including a kindergarten pupil, residing in and attending a nonpublic school in such dist…

Sec. 10-228b. Tax credits for donation of computers to schools. (a) The Commissioner of Revenue Services shall grant a credit against any tax due under the provisions of chapter 207, 208, 209, 210, 211 or 212, in any income year commencing prior to January 1, 2014, for the donati…

Sec. 10-229. Change of textbooks. (a) No board of education shall change any textbooks used in the public schools except by a two-thirds vote of all the members of the board, notice of such intended change having been previously given at a meeting of such board held at least one …

Sec. 10-230. Flags in schoolrooms and schools. Policy on the reciting of the “Pledge of Allegiance”. (a) Each local and regional board of education shall provide a United States flag for each schoolroom and shall cause such flag to be displayed therein during each day school is i…

Sec. 10-230a. Employment of instructors of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps programs. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 166 relating to professional certification, a local or regional board of education may employ any person certified by the United States armed force…

Sec. 10-230b. Exemplary veterans education program distinction. The State Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Veterans Affairs, shall award, upon receipt of a request, an exemplary veterans education program distinction to those local and regional boards of…

Sec. 10-231. Fire drills. Crisis response drills. (a) Each local and regional board of education shall provide for a fire drill to be held in the schools of such board not later than thirty days after the first day of each school year and at least once each month thereafter, exce…

Sec. 10-231a. Pesticide applications at schools: Definitions. As used in sections 10-231b to 10-231d, inclusive, (1) “pesticide” means a fungicide used on plants, an insecticide, a herbicide or a rodenticide, but does not mean a sanitizer, disinfectant, antimicrobial agent or pes…

Sec. 10-231b. Pesticide applications at schools: Authorized applications. Ban. Exceptions. (a) No person, other than a pesticide applicator with supervisory certification under section 22a-54 or a pesticide applicator with operational certification under section 22a-54 under the …

Sec. 10-231c. Pesticide applications at schools without an integrated pest management plan. Prior notice. (a) As used in this section, “local or regional board of education” means a local or regional board of education that does not have an integrated pest management plan for the…

Sec. 10-231d. Pesticide applications at schools with an integrated pest management plan. Prior notice. (a) As used in this section, “local or regional board of education” means a local or regional board of education which has an integrated pest management plan for the schools und…

Sec. 10-231e. Maintenance of heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. (a) For purposes of this section “Standard 62” means the American Society of Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Engineers Standard 62 entitled “Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality”, as…

Sec. 10-231f. Indoor air quality committee. Each local and regional board of education may establish an indoor air quality committee for each school district or facility to increase staff and student awareness of facets of the environment that affect the health of the occupants o…

Sec. 10-231g. Green cleaning program at schools: Definitions. Implementation. Notice. (a) As used in this section, (1) “green cleaning program” means the procurement and proper use of environmentally preferable cleaning products in school buildings and facilities, and (2) “enviro…

Sec. 10-231h. Standard reporting forms for inspections re school building indoor air quality and heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. (a) The Department of Administrative Services shall develop a standard school building indoor air quality reporting form to be used …

Sec. 10-231i. Guidelines re optimal thermal comfort range for school buildings and facilities. On or before July 1, 2024, the Commissioner of Public Health shall develop guidelines regarding the establishment of an optimal thermal comfort range of sixty-five to eighty degrees Fah…

Sec. 10-232. Restrictions on employment of members of board of education. Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act to the contrary, no member of the board of education shall be employed for compensation by the board of which he or she is a member in any position in the s…

Sec. 10-232a. Criminal history and child abuse and neglect registry records checks of applicants and employees of nongovernmental school operators. Termination or dismissal. Fingerprinting. Availability of information re applicant's history. (a) As used in this section and sectio…

Sec. 10-232b. Criminal history and child abuse and neglect registry records checks of students in teacher preparation programs. Fee waiver. (a) Each eligible school operator and nongovernmental school operator shall require each student who is enrolled in a teacher preparation pr…

Sec. 10-232c. Criminal history and child abuse and neglect registry records checks of persons who will perform service involving direct contact with students. Each eligible school operator or nongovernmental school operator may require any person who will perform a service involv…

Sec. 10-232d. Criminal history and child abuse and neglect registry records checks of certified school personnel. Denial of application for and revocation of certification. (a) The State Board of Education shall submit, periodically, to the State Police Bureau of Identification a…

Sec. 10-233. Suspension of pupils. Section 10-233 is repealed. (1949, S. 959d; P.A. 75-609, S. 6.)

Sec. 10-233a. Definitions. Whenever used in sections 10-233a to 10-233g, inclusive: (a) “Exclusion” means any denial of public school privileges to a pupil for disciplinary purposes. (b) “Removal” means an exclusion from a classroom for all or part of a single class period, provi…

Sec. 10-233b. Removal of pupils from class. (a) Any local or regional board of education may authorize teachers in its employ to remove a pupil from class when such pupil deliberately causes a serious disruption of the educational process within the classroom, provided no pupil s…

Sec. 10-233c. Suspension of pupils. (a) Any local or regional board of education may authorize the administration of the schools under its direction to suspend from school privileges a pupil whose conduct on school grounds or at a school sponsored activity is violative of a publi…

Sec. 10-233d. Expulsion of pupils. (a)(1) Any local or regional board of education, at a meeting at which three or more members of such board are present, or the impartial hearing board established pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, may expel, subject to the provisions o…

Sec. 10-233e. Notice as to disciplinary policies and action. Each local or regional board of education shall inform all pupils within its jurisdiction and their parents, guardians and surrogate parents, if appointed pursuant to section 10-94g, at least annually, of the board poli…

Sec. 10-233f. In-school suspension of pupils. Reassignment. (a) Any local or regional board of education may authorize the administration of schools under its direction to impose an in-school suspension on any pupil whose conduct endangers persons or property or is seriously disr…

Sec. 10-233g. Reports of principals to police authority concerning physical assaults upon school employees by students. (a) Where there is a physical assault made by a student upon a teacher or other school employee on school property or in performance of school duties and such t…

Sec. 10-233h. Arrested students. Reports by police, disclosure, confidentiality. Police testimony at expulsion hearings. If any person who is at least seven years of age but less than twenty-one years of age and an enrolled student is arrested for a violation of section 53-206c, …

Sec. 10-233i. Students placed on probation by a court. A student placed on probation by a court may return to school on a conditional basis, within the limits prescribed by the court, provided the court has requested, from the superintendent of schools of the school district in w…

Sec. 10-233j. Student possession and use of telecommunication devices. (a) No student in a public school in the state shall possess or use a remotely activated paging device unless such student obtains the written permission of the school principal for such possession and use. Th…

Sec. 10-233k. Notification of school officials of potentially dangerous students. Provision of educational records of children returning to school from residential centers. (a) If the Department of Children and Families believes, in good faith, that there is a risk of imminent pe…

Sec. 10-233l. Expulsion and suspension of children in preschool programs. (a) As used in this section, “preschool program provider” means a local or regional board of education, state or local charter school or interdistrict magnet school that offers a preschool program. (b) (1) …

Sec. 10-233m. Memorandum of understanding re school resource officers. Each local or regional board of education that assigns a school resource officer to any school under the jurisdiction of such board shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with a local law enforcement a…

Sec. 10-233n. Report re disaggregated school discipline data. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Student” means a person who is enrolled in a school under the jurisdiction of a local or regional board of education; (2) “School property” means the real property comprising a public …