Title 10, Title 10: Education and Culture

Sec. 10-262h. Equalization aid grants. (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town designated as an alliance district, as defined in section 10-262u, sh…

Sec. 10-262i. Equalization aid grant payments. Expenditures for educational purposes only. Prohibition against supplanting local funding. Aid increase. Aid reduction. Equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year. Penalty. (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1990…

Sec. 10-262j. Minimum budget requirement. (a) Except as otherwise provided under the provisions of subsections (b) to (h), inclusive, of this section, for any fiscal year, the budgeted appropriation for education shall be not less than the budgeted appropriation for education for…

Sec. 10-262k. Grants for compensatory education programs. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the board of education which has jurisdiction over the schools in any town (1) with a total population, as defined in subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of section 10-2…

Sec. 10-262l. Grants for improvement in student achievement. (a) Each local and regional board of education, within available appropriations, shall be eligible to receive a state grant of funds as a reward for demonstrating improvement in district-wide student achievement on the …

Sec. 10-262m. Grants for high level of foster care placements in a school district. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and each fiscal year thereafter, each school district in which two per cent or more of the average daily membership, as defined in section 10-261, of the …

Sec. 10-262n. Grants to improve the use of technology in schools. (a) The Department of Education shall administer, within available appropriations, a program to assist local and regional school districts to improve the use of information technology in their schools. Under the pr…

Sec. 10-262o. Grant program for teacher technology training programs. The Department of Education shall establish, within available appropriations, a competitive grant program to fund innovative teacher training programs on the integration of technology into the public school cur…

Sec. 10-262p. Computer technology competency standards for students. Report on the status of educational technology in the public schools. (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt grade kindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive, computer technology competency standards for stud…

Sec. 10-262q. Centralized web-based site for educators. The Department of Education shall develop and maintain, within available appropriations, a centralized web-based site for use by educators in posting and sharing suggested grade-specific or topic-specific lesson plans, curri…

Sec. 10-262r. Computer-assisted writing, instruction and testing. Pilot program. Section 10-262r is repealed, effective April 1, 2009. (P.A. 05-245, S. 39; P.A. 06-196, S. 65; P.A. 08-170, S. 16; P.A. 09-2, S. 27.)

Sec. 10-262s. Authority of Commissioner of Education to transfer funds appropriated for Sheff settlement to certain grant programs and voluntary interdistrict programs. (a) The Commissioner of Education may, to assist the state in meeting its obligations pursuant to the decision …

Sec. 10-262t. Grants to support plans that implement cost-saving strategies. The Commissioner of Education may provide, within available appropriations, grants for technical assistance and regional cooperation to support any local or regional board of education that develops a pl…

Sec. 10-262u. Alliance districts. (a) As used in this section and section 10-262i: (1) “Alliance district” means a school district for a town that (A) is among the towns with the thirty-three lowest accountability index scores, as calculated by the Department of Education, or (B)…

Sec. 10-262v. Publication of alliance district improvement plans. The Department of Education shall publish on its Internet web site the improvement plan submitted pursuant to subsection (d) of section 10-262u for each local or regional board of education for a town designated as…

Sec. 10-262w. Report re effectiveness of alliance district program. Recommendations re reforming program. (a) The Commissioner of Education shall develop a report of the effectiveness of the alliance district program, described in section 10-262u, and recommendations for reformin…

Sec. 10-262x. Notice to towns of estimated equalization aid grants. Not later than December 31, 2024, and each December thirty-first thereafter, the Department of Education shall calculate an estimated amount that each town may receive under the provisions of section 10-262h, for…

Sec. 10-263. Withholding of payments; adjustments for underpayments and overpayments of grants. (a) The State Board of Education may withhold from the total sum which is paid from the State Treasury an amount which it determines to be equitable from any town or school district wh…

Secs. 10-263a and 10-263b. Payment to towns not on uniform fiscal year. Amounts in average daily membership payable to the Department of Correction. Sections 10-263a and 10-263b are repealed. (P.A. 75-1, S. 1, 2; 75-481, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-81, S. 1, 2; P.A. 79-128, S. 35, 36; 79-63…

Sec. 10-263c. Transitional school district grant program. (a) The State Board of Education, within available appropriations, shall administer a transitional school district grant program in accordance with this section. Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of section 10-26…

Sec. 10-263d. Transitional school district phase-out grants. Reduced grants for first year of eligibility for transitional school district grants. (a) Commencing with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, if a school district that received a transitional school district grant pur…

Sec. 10-263e. Safe learning grant program. (a) The Department of Education shall establish, within available appropriations, a competitive safe learning grant program to assist school districts in (1) developing a school environment where children learn in safety without fear of …

Sec. 10-264. Temporary additional payment. Obsolete. (1957, P.A. 642, S. 1.)

Secs. 10-264a to 10-264d. Promotion of educational quality and diversity: Definitions. Local assessment. Regional plans. Withholding of funds. Sections 10-264a to 10-264d, inclusive, are repealed, effective July 1, 1998. (P.A. 93-263, S. 1–4, 14; P.A. 95-226, S. 19, 30; P.A. 98-2…

Sec. 10-264e. Grant applications. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1996, and each fiscal year thereafter, at such time and in such manner as the commissioner prescribes, local and regional boards of education, individually or cooperatively, pursuant to section 10-158a, or thro…

Sec. 10-264f. Grants for single districts or one or more schools within a district. (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1996, and each fiscal year thereafter, a local or regional board of education, may, in accordance with this section, apply to the commissioner, pursuant to …

Sec. 10-264g. Grants for two or more districts. Section 10-264g is repealed, effective July 1, 1995. (P.A. 93-263, S. 8, 14; P.A. 95-226, S. 28, 30.)

Sec. 10-264h. School building project grants for interdistrict magnet school facilities. (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, and each fiscal year thereafter, a local or regional board of education, a regional educational service center, a cooperative arrangement pursuan…

Sec. 10-264i. Transportation grants for interdistrict magnet school programs. (a)(1)(A) A local or regional board of education, (B) a regional educational service center, (C) the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges on behalf of Quinebaug Valley Community College…

Sec. 10-264j. No time or regional restrictions on development and implementation of interdistrict programs. Nothing in subsection (a) of section 10-74d or in sections 10-264e to 10-264i, inclusive, shall be deemed to prohibit one or more local or regional boards of education from…

Sec. 10-264k. Regions. Section 10-264k is repealed, effective July 1, 1998. (P.A. 93-263, S. 12, 14; P.A. 98-252, S. 79, 80; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 105, 121.)

Sec. 10-264l. Grants for the operation of interdistrict magnet school programs. Transportation. Enrollment of students; notice. Special education; Section 504 plans. Financial audits. Tuition. (a) The Department of Education shall, within available appropriations, establish a gra…

Sec. 10-264m. Creation of additional interdistrict magnet school programs with special emphasis on information technology curriculum. The Department of Education shall encourage the creation of additional interdistrict magnet school programs with special emphasis on information t…

Sec. 10-264n. Collaborative planning for the establishment of additional interdistrict magnet schools in the Sheff region. The Commissioner of Education shall consult with (1) the Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges, (2) the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut Sta…

Sec. 10-264o. Tuition payable to interdistrict magnet schools that assist the state in meeting its obligations pursuant to Sheff v. O'Neill. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, interdistrict magnet schools that begin operations on or after July 1, 2008, pursuant to…

Sec. 10-264p. Sliding tuition scale for preschool programs offered at certain magnet schools. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Social Services, shall develop a sliding tuition scale based on family incom…

Sec. 10-264q. Eligibility of certain magnet schools not in compliance with racial minority enrollment requirements to continue to receive operating grants. Notwithstanding subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of section 10-264l, an interdistrict magnet school program that (1) does n…

Sec. 10-264r. Reduced-isolation enrollment standards. Not later than July 1, 2017, the Commissioner of Education shall develop, and revise as necessary thereafter, reduced-isolation enrollment standards for interdistrict magnet school programs that shall serve as the enrollment r…

Sec. 10-264s. Applicability of education statutes to certain interdistrict magnet school operators. Recognized and considered a local education agency for purposes of state and federal law. (a) All state laws and regulations applicable to the operation of public schools, includin…

Sec. 10-264t. Adoption of long-range plan of capital improvement and school building project priorities and goals by the Capitol Region Education Council. (a) Not later than January 1, 2023, and every five years thereafter, the Capitol Region Education Council shall adopt a long-…

Sec. 10-264u. Submission of enrollment numbers for certain programs by May twentieth. Not later than May twentieth of each school year, each local and regional board of education, operator of an interdistrict magnet school program and governing council of a state or local charter…

Sec. 10-265. Payments. Section 10-265 is repealed. (1957, P.A. 642, S. 2; 1959, P.A. 143, S. 2; 645; 1961, P.A. 42; 1963, P.A. 3; P.A. 74-145, S. 1, 2.)

Sec. 10-265a. Definitions. For purposes of this section and sections 10-265b to 10-265d, inclusive: (a) “Vocational education equipment” means personal property with an estimated useful life of five or more years and an initial purchase price of five hundred dollars or more for u…

Sec. 10-265aa. The Partnership for Connecticut, Inc. Purposes, powers and reports. (a) As used in this section and sections 10-265bb to 10-265ff, inclusive: (1) “Corporation” means the nonprofit nonstock corporation described in subsection (b) of this section, which has been esta…

Sec. 10-265b. State grants for vocational education equipment. Commencing with grant applications submitted during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1994, and for each fiscal year thereafter, in which funds are available pursuant to section 10-265d, the Commissioner of Education sh…

Sec. 10-265bb. Duties of the corporation. (a) The corporation shall work with entities that include, but are not limited to, nonprofit organizations, high schools and school districts, institutions of higher education and employers to connect youths and young adults between the a…