Title 10 — Title 10: Education and Culture
35 chapters · 1,385 sections in this title.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-500 Office of Early Childhood. Commissioner. Responsibilities. Successor department. Connecticut Head Start State Collaboration Office.
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Sec. 10-500. Office of Early Childhood. Commissioner. Responsibilities. Successor department. Connecticut Head Start State Collaboration Office. (a) There is established an Office of Early Childhood. The office shall be under the direction of the Commissioner of Early Childhood, …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-500a Authority of office re licensing matters.
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Sec. 10-500a. Authority of office re licensing matters. The Commissioner of Early Childhood may enter into stipulations, agreements, memoranda of understanding, interim consent orders or consent orders relating to licensing matters under chapters 368a and 368r with: (1) Any perso…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-501 Early childhood information system.
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Sec. 10-501. Early childhood information system. (a) The Office of Early Childhood shall develop and implement an early childhood information system. Such early childhood information system shall facilitate and encourage the sharing of data between and among early childhood servi…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-502 (Formerly Sec. 10-16bb). Collaboration with local early childhood collaboratives.
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Sec. 10-502. (Formerly Sec. 10-16bb). Collaboration with local early childhood collaboratives. The Office of Early Childhood shall collaborate with and may, within available appropriations, provide funding to local early childhood collaboratives for the implementation of early ca…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-503 Early childhood accountability plan. Report cards. Report.
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Sec. 10-503. Early childhood accountability plan. Report cards. Report. (a) Not later than December 31, 2015, the Office of Early Childhood shall develop, in consultation with the Early Childhood Cabinet, established pursuant to section 10-16z, an early childhood accountability p…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-504 Child care development block grant administered by the Office of Early Childhood.
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Sec. 10-504. Child care development block grant administered by the Office of Early Childhood. The Office of Early Childhood is designated as the state agency for the administration of the child care development block grant pursuant to the Child Care and Development Block Grant A…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-505 Grant program for costs associated with classroom start-up and new spaces in certain school readiness programs.
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Sec. 10-505. Grant program for costs associated with classroom start-up and new spaces in certain school readiness programs. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Eligible town” means a town in which a priority school, as defined in section 10-16p, is located or a town ranked on…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-505a Emergency stabilization grant program for school readiness programs and certain other child care centers receiving state financial assistance.
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Sec. 10-505a. Emergency stabilization grant program for school readiness programs and certain other child care centers receiving state financial assistance. (a) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2023, and June 30, 2024, the Office of Early Childhood shall administer an emergen…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-505b Tri-Share Child Care Matching Program.
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Sec. 10-505b. Tri-Share Child Care Matching Program. (a) The Office of Early Childhood shall, within available appropriations, establish a Tri-Share Child Care Matching Program serving New London County. Under such program, costs for child care provided by duly licensed child car…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-506 Connecticut Smart Start competitive grant program.
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Sec. 10-506. Connecticut Smart Start competitive grant program. (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Office of Early Childhood, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall design and administer the Connecticut Smart Start …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-507 Smart start competitive capital grant account. Smart start competitive operating grant account.
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Sec. 10-507. Smart start competitive capital grant account. Smart start competitive operating grant account. (a) There is established an account to be known as the “smart start competitive capital grant account” which shall be a capital projects fund. The account shall contain th…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-508 Bond authorization for early care and education facility improvement grants.
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Sec. 10-508. Bond authorization for early care and education facility improvement grants. (a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this section, the State Bond Commission shall have the power from time to time to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or m…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-509 Expenditure of certain funds for early care and education and child development programs.
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Sec. 10-509. Expenditure of certain funds for early care and education and child development programs. (a) As used in this subsection, “early care and education and childhood development programs” includes the child care subsidy program, established pursuant to section 17b-749, t…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-509a Allocation and expenditure of funds for professional development services, technical assistance and evaluation and program planning and implementation activities.
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Sec. 10-509a. Allocation and expenditure of funds for professional development services, technical assistance and evaluation and program planning and implementation activities. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 4-98, 4-212 to 4-219, inclusive, 4a-51 and 4a-57, the Commis…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-510 Start Early - Early Child Development Initiative.
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Sec. 10-510. Start Early - Early Child Development Initiative. (a) The Office of Early Childhood shall establish and administer the Start Early - Early Child Development Initiative. The office shall develop funding priorities for the initiative for early education and support ser…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-511 Early Childhood Care and Education Fund.
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Sec. 10-511. Early Childhood Care and Education Fund. (a) There is established the Early Childhood Care and Education Fund. Said fund may contain any moneys required or permitted by law to be deposited in the fund and shall receive and hold all payments and deposits for contribut…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-511a Early Childhood Care and Education Fund Advisory Commission.
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Sec. 10-511a. Early Childhood Care and Education Fund Advisory Commission. (a)(1) There is established the Early Childhood Care and Education Fund Advisory Commission, which shall be part of the Legislative Department. The commission shall review and report on the financial healt…
Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 10-512 and 10-513 10-512 and 10-513
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Secs. 10-512 and 10-513. Reserved for future use.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-514 Creation of document re developmental milestones. Posting of document.
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Sec. 10-514. Creation of document re developmental milestones. Posting of document. (a) Not later than January 1, 2020, the Office of Early Childhood shall create a one-page document that (1) lists important developmental milestones experienced by children ages birth to five year…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-515 Preschool experience survey.
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Sec. 10-515. Preschool experience survey. On or before March 1, 2015, the Commissioner of Early Childhood, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall develop a preschool experience survey that shall be included in kindergarten registration materials provided by local…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-516 Competitive grants for alliance school districts.
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Sec. 10-516. Competitive grants for alliance school districts. The Office of Early Childhood, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, may offer from funds which may originate from public, private, federal or philanthropic sources, a competitive grant for up to th…
Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 10-517 to 10-519 10-517 to 10-519
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Secs. 10-517 to 10-519. Reserved for future use.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-520 Trend analysis of certain bachelor's degree programs in early childhood education or child development.
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Sec. 10-520. Trend analysis of certain bachelor's degree programs in early childhood education or child development. Section 10-520 is repealed, effective July 12, 2019. (P.A. 15-134, S. 1; P.A. 16-163, S. 17; P.A. 19-34, S. 2; 19-121, S. 15.)
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-520a Report re staff qualifications requirement compliance.
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Sec. 10-520a. Report re staff qualifications requirement compliance. Not later than January first, annually, the Office of Early Childhood shall submit a report regarding the status of school readiness program providers' compliance with the staff qualifications requirement, descr…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-520b (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Early childhood teacher credential.
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Sec. 10-520b. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Early childhood teacher credential. The Office of Early Childhood, upon receipt of a proper application and in a manner prescribed by the Commissioner of Early Childhood, shall issue an early childhood teache…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-520c Approval to work as head teacher or educational consultant. Suspension or revocation of approval.
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Sec. 10-520c. Approval to work as head teacher or educational consultant. Suspension or revocation of approval. (a) Upon receipt of an application for approval to work as a head teacher or an educational consultant in a licensed child care center or group child care home, the Com…
Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 10-521 to 10-529 10-521 to 10-529
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Secs. 10-521 to 10-529. Reserved for future use.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-530 Comprehensive background checks.
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Sec. 10-530. Comprehensive background checks. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Child care facility” means a “child care center”, “group child care home” or “family child care home” that provides “child care services”, each as described in section 19a-77, or any provider of child…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-531 Proposed early childhood educator compensation schedule.
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Sec. 10-531. Proposed early childhood educator compensation schedule. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Early childhood education program” means any child care or school readiness program that accepts state funds for infant, toddler and preschool spaces associated with such progr…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-532 Universal nurse home visiting services program.
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Sec. 10-532. Universal nurse home visiting services program. (a) As used in this section, “universal nurse home visiting” means an evidence-based nurse home visiting model in which a registered nurse, licensed pursuant to chapter 378, with specialized training provides services i…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-533 Document re liability insurance coverage. Distribution.
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Sec. 10-533. Document re liability insurance coverage. Distribution. Not later than December 1, 2024, the Commissioner of Early Childhood shall, in consultation with a nonprofit organization providing entrepreneurial and financial education services to women, develop a document f…
Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 10-534 to 10-549 10-534 to 10-549
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Secs. 10-534 to 10-549. Reserved for future use.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-550 (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Definitions.
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Sec. 10-550. (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Definitions. As used in this section and sections 10-550a to 10-550h, inclusive: (1) “Accredited” means an early care and education program (A) accredited by the National Association for the Education of…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-550a (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Responsibilities.
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Sec. 10-550a. (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Responsibilities. The Office of Early Childhood shall operate and administer Early Start CT in order to provide state funding to early care and education programs throughout the state and coordinate and…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-550b (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Contracts for financial assistance.
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Sec. 10-550b. (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Contracts for financial assistance. (a) As part of Early Start CT, the state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Early Childhood, may enter into direct or third-party contracts to pr…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-550c (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Local and regional governance partners.
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Sec. 10-550c. (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Local and regional governance partners. (a) There shall be established, within available appropriations, local or regional governance partners to assist in the provision of early care and education in a…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-550d (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Sliding fee scale.
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Sec. 10-550d. (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Sliding fee scale. The Office of Early Childhood shall establish a sliding fee scale for families that are enrolled in an early care and education program under Early Start CT. Such sliding scale shall …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-550e (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Unexpended funds.
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Sec. 10-550e. (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Unexpended funds. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, if funds appropriated to the Office of Ea…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-550f (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Accreditation requirement.
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Sec. 10-550f. (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. Accreditation requirement. Any early care and education program receiving financial assistance under Early Start CT, including, but not limited to, licensed family child care homes, group child care hom…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-550g (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Designated staff member and designated qualified staff member requirements.
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Sec. 10-550g. (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Designated staff member and designated qualified staff member requirements. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Office of Early Childhood funded early care and education program” means an early care and education program…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-550h (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. State-funded competitive program.
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Sec. 10-550h. (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Early Start CT. State-funded competitive program. As part of Early Start CT, the Commissioner of Early Childhood shall establish a state-funded competitive program in which contracts are entered into with nonprofit age…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-550i Policies and procedures re Early Start CT and infant, toddler and school-age ratios, groups and teacher staffing requirements.
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Sec. 10-550i. Policies and procedures re Early Start CT and infant, toddler and school-age ratios, groups and teacher staffing requirements. (a) The Commissioner of Early Childhood shall implement policies and procedures necessary to (1) administer the provisions of sections 10-5…