Title 10 — Title 10: Education and Culture

Sec. 10-218. Officers. Meetings. Each board of education shall, not later than one month after the date on which the newly elected members take office, elect from its number a chairperson and elect a secretary of such board and may prescribe their duties. The votes of each member…

Sec. 10-218a. Oath of office. Members of boards of education shall, before entering upon their official duties, take the oath of office provided in section 1-25. (1959, P.A. 76.)

Sec. 10-218b. Translation services to be provided at meetings of board upon request. Each local and regional board of education shall, upon request of the parent or guardian of a multilingual learner student or of the multilingual learner student, provide translation services to …

Sec. 10-218c. Newly elected members of boards of education to complete training program. On and after July 1, 2023, any person who has been elected to a local or regional board of education for the first time shall complete, at a time and in a manner prescribed by the Department …

Sec. 10-219. Procedure for filling vacancy on local board of education. If a vacancy occurs in the office of any member of the local board of education, unless otherwise provided by charter or special act, such vacancy shall be filled by the remaining members of said board until …

Sec. 10-220. Duties of boards of education. (a) Each local or regional board of education shall maintain good public elementary and secondary schools, implement the educational interests of the state, as defined in section 10-4a, and provide such other educational activities as i…

Sec. 10-220a. *(See end of section for amended version of subsection (a) and effective date.) In-service training. Professional development and evaluation committees. Institutes for educators. Cooperating teacher program, regulations. *(a) Each local or regional board of educatio…

Sec. 10-220b. Policy statement on drugs. Section 10-220b is repealed. (P.A. 78-218, S. 145; P.A. 87-499, S. 33, 34.)

Sec. 10-220c. Transportation of children over private roads. Immunity from liability. (a) Each town, or local or regional board of education may when providing for the transportation of children to and from school or school activities, in accordance with the provisions of section…

Sec. 10-220d. Student recruitment by regional and interdistrict specialized schools and programs. Recruitment of athletes prohibited. Information re and notice of availability of certain schools and education centers. Each local and regional board of education shall provide full …

Sec. 10-220e. Foster children count. Section 10-220e is repealed, effective July 1, 2000. (P.A. 98-252, S. 66, 80; P.A. 00-220, S. 42, 43.)

Sec. 10-220f. Safety committee. Each local and regional board of education may establish a school district safety committee to increase staff and student awareness of safety and health issues and to review the adequacy of emergency response procedures at each school. Parents and …

Sec. 10-220g. Policy on calculation of students' grade point averages. Each local and regional board of education shall establish, and update as necessary, a written policy concerning the manner in which students' grade point averages are calculated, including whether such grade …

Sec. 10-220h. Transfer of student records. (a) When a student enrolls in a school in a new school district or in a new state charter school, the new school district or new state charter school shall provide written notification of such enrollment to the school district in which t…

Sec. 10-220i. Transportation of students carrying cartridge injectors. No local or regional board of education shall deny a student access to school transportation solely due to such student's need to carry a cartridge injector while traveling on a vehicle used for school transpo…

Sec. 10-220j. Blood glucose self-testing by children. Guidelines. (a) No local or regional board of education may prohibit blood glucose self-testing by children with diabetes who have a written order from a physician or an advanced practice registered nurse stating the need and …

Sec. 10-220k. Disclosure of educational records re student confined in residential facility. In the case of a student confined pursuant to court order to a state-operated residential facility or community residential facility, the local or regional board of education of the town …

Sec. 10-220l. Qualified personnel to monitor school swimming pool. School swimming pool safety plan. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “School swimming pool” means any swimming pool approved for use by a local or regional board of education for student aquatic activities; (2)…

Sec. 10-220m. Review of transportation arrangements of special needs students. Not later than January 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall review the transportation arrangements of their special needs students, both in and out of dist…

Secs. 10-220n and 10-220o. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 10-220p. Materials provided to students when discussing career options. Guidance counselors and school counselors may provide materials concerning manufacturing, military and law enforcement careers when discussing career options with students. (P.A. 19-58, S. 1.) History: P…

Sec. 10-220q. Calculation of unweighted grade point average for Connecticut Automatic Admissions Program. (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2022, and each school year thereafter, for the purpose of qualifying a student for the Connecticut Automatic Admissions Program, es…

Sec. 10-220r. School playground design conformity with universal design principles. Each local and regional board of education shall conform the design of any school playground designed on or after July 1, 2025, to the principles of universal design. Such playgrounds shall includ…

Sec. 10-221. Boards of education to prescribe rules, policies and procedures. (a) As used in this section, “remote learning” means instruction by means of one or more Internet-based software platforms as part of a remote learning model. (b) Boards of education shall prescribe rul…

Sec. 10-221a. High school graduation requirements. Student support and remedial services. Excusal from physical education requirement. Diplomas for certain veterans and certain persons assisting in the war effort during World War II. Student success plans. Connecticut State Seal …

Sec. 10-221aa. Prohibition on parent or guardian participation as condition for student enrollment. No local or regional board of education shall require a parent or guardian of a student to participate in school activities, such as through volunteering, as a condition for the en…

Sec. 10-221b. Boards of education to establish written uniform policy re treatment of recruiters. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all public high schools and any private high school which receives state funds shall, subject to the provisions of subdivi…

Sec. 10-221c. Development of policy for reporting complaints re school transportation safety. Reporting of accidents at school bus stops. (a) The superintendent of schools of each local or regional school district and the supervisory agent of each nonpublic school shall develop a…

Sec. 10-221d. Criminal history and child abuse and neglect registry records checks of applicants and employees of eligible school operators. Termination or dismissal. Fingerprinting. Availability of information re applicant's history. (a) As used in this section and sections 10-2…

Sec. 10-221e. Intradistrict student assignment programs. Local and regional boards of education may develop intradistrict student assignment programs. Under such programs parents may select the public school which their child will attend provided the school is in the school distr…

Sec. 10-221f. School uniforms. A local or regional board of education may specify a school uniform for students in schools under its jurisdiction. (P.A. 96-101, S. 1, 2.) History: P.A. 96-101 effective May 8, 1996.

Sec. 10-221g. Instructional time and facility usage assessment. Each local and regional board of education shall conduct an instructional time and facility usage assessment in order to maximize student learning and community use of facilities. For purposes of such audit, the supe…

Secs. 10-221h and 10-221i. Plan to improve reading skills. Technical assistance; standard of reading competency. Sections 10-221h and 10-221i are repealed, effective July 1, 2012. (P.A. 97-290, S. 23, 29; P.A. 98-243, S. 1, 2, 25; P.A. 12-116, S. 97.)

Sec. 10-221j. Early Reading Success Panel. The Department of Education shall convene an Early Reading Success Panel composed of elementary school teachers, school administrators, national experts in the field of reading research and early childhood and higher education experts kn…

Sec. 10-221k. Assessments by priority school districts of need related to goal of reading success. Each local or regional board of education for a priority school district pursuant to section 10-266p shall conduct an assessment of its institutional and teacher need related to the…

Sec. 10-221l. State-Wide Early Reading Success Institute. The Department of Education shall develop, within available appropriations, a State-Wide Early Reading Success Institute for educators based on the review completed by the Early Reading Success Panel pursuant to section 10…

Sec. 10-221m. Development and implementation of in-service reading instruction training program by priority school districts. (a) On or before July 1, 2001, each local or regional board of education for a priority school district pursuant to section 10-266p shall develop and impl…

Sec. 10-221n. Independent evaluation. The Department of Education shall contract, within available appropriations, for an independent evaluation of the early reading success teacher training and curriculum modules as delineated in sections 10-221j to 10-221m, inclusive. (June Sp.…

Sec. 10-221o. Lunch periods. Recess. Undirected play. Boards to adopt policies addressing limitation of physical exercise. (a) Each local and regional board of education shall require each school under its jurisdiction to (1) offer all full day students a daily lunch period of no…

Sec. 10-221p. Boards to make available for purchase nutritious and low-fat foods. Each local and regional board of education and governing authority for each state charter school, interdistrict magnet school and endowed academy approved pursuant to section 10-34, shall make avail…

Sec. 10-221q. Sale of beverages. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, each local and regional board of education and the governing authority for each state charter school, interdistrict magnet school and endowed academy approved pursuant to section …

Sec. 10-221r. Advanced placement course program. Guidelines. (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2011, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall provide an advanced placement course program. For purposes of this section, “advanced pl…

Sec. 10-221s. Posting of Careline telephone number in schools. Investigations of child abuse and neglect. Disciplinary action. Preliminary inquiries. (a) Each local and regional board of education shall post the telephone number for the Careline operated by the Department of Chil…

Sec. 10-221t. Alignment of common core standards with college level programs. Each local and regional board of education, in collaboration with the Board of Regents for Higher Education and the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut, shall develop a plan to align Con…

Sec. 10-221u. Boards to adopt policies addressing the use of physical activity as discipline. Not later than October 1, 2013, each local and regional board of education shall adopt a policy, as the board deems appropriate, concerning the issue regarding any school employee being …

Sec. 10-221v. Confidential rapid response team re suspected abuse or neglect. Not later than January 1, 2016, each local and regional board of education shall establish a confidential rapid response team to coordinate with the Department of Children and Families to (1) ensure pro…

Sec. 10-221w. Policy re eligibility criteria for enrollment in advanced course or program. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Advanced course or program” means an honors class, advanced placement class, International Baccalaureate program, Cambridge International program, dual enr…

Sec. 10-221x. Challenging curriculum policy. (a) Not later than July 1, 2022, each local and regional board of education shall adopt a challenging curriculum policy. A challenging curriculum policy shall include, but need not be limited to, (1) criteria for the identification of …

Sec. 10-221y. Standardized conversion of transferred credits. Application toward graduation requirements. The Commissioners of Education and Children and Families shall develop a system for standardized conversion of credits transferred pursuant to section 10-220h. Such system sh…

Sec. 10-221z. Completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or an application for institutional financial aid as a condition for graduation from high school. Waiver. Exemption. (a) No local or regional board of education shall permit any student to graduate from high…