Title 10, Title 10: Education and Culture

Sec. 10-151a. Access of teacher to supervisory records and reports in personnel file. Each professional employee certified by the State Board of Education and employed by any local or regional board of education shall be entitled to knowledge of, access to, and, upon request, a c…

Sec. 10-151b. Teacher evaluations. Teacher evaluation and support program; development; adoption; implementation; guidelines. (a) The superintendent of each local or regional board of education shall annually evaluate or cause to be evaluated each teacher, and for the school year…

Sec. 10-151c. Nondisclosure of records of teacher performance and evaluation. Exceptions. Any records maintained or kept on file by the Department of Education or any local or regional board of education that are records of teacher performance and evaluation shall not be deemed t…

Sec. 10-151d. Performance Evaluation Advisory Council. Responsibilities. (a) There is established a Performance Evaluation Advisory Council within the Department of Education. Membership of the council shall consist of: (1) The Commissioner of Education and the chancellor of the …

Sec. 10-151e. Disclosure of teacher records for purposes of an investigation of child abuse or neglect. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 10-151c, a local or regional board of education shall provide the Commissioner of Children and Families, upon request and for the purp…

Secs. 10-151f and 10-151g. Teacher evaluation and support pilot program. Neag School of Education study of teacher evaluation and support pilot program. Sections 10-151f and 10-151g are repealed, effective July 1, 2023. (P.A. 12-116, S. 52, 53; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 24;…

Sec. 10-151h. Training and orientation programs for educators re teacher evaluation and support program. (a) Upon the implementation of the teacher evaluation and support program adopted pursuant to subsection (b) of section 10-151b, each local and regional board of education sha…

Sec. 10-151i. Audits of teacher evaluation and support programs. On July 1, 2014, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Education shall randomly select, within available appropriations, at least ten teacher evaluation and support programs adopted pursuant to section 10-151…

Sec. 10-151j. Exit surveys for certain teachers. Not later than January 1, 2024, each local and regional board of education shall develop an exit survey to be completed by a teacher who is employed by such board and voluntarily ceases employment with such board. Such exit survey …

Sec. 10-152. Discrimination in salaries of teachers. Section 10-152 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1439; P.A. 78-218, S. 211.)

Sec. 10-153. Discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity or expression or marital status prohibited. No local or regional board of education shall discriminate on the basis of sex, gender identity or expression or marital status in the employment of teachers in the public…

Sec. 10-153a. Rights concerning professional organization and negotiations. Duty of fair representation. Annual service fees negotiable item. (a) Members of the teaching profession shall have and shall be protected in the exercise of the right to form, join or assist, or refuse t…

Sec. 10-153b. Selection of teachers' representatives. (a) Whenever used in this section or in sections 10-153c to 10-153n, inclusive: (1) The “administrators' unit” means the professional employee or employees in a school district or charter school not excluded from the purview o…

Sec. 10-153c. Disputes as to elections. (a) Any dispute as to the eligibility of personnel to vote in an election, or the agency to conduct the election required by section 10-153b, shall be submitted to a board of arbitration for a binding decision with respect thereto. If there…

Sec. 10-153d. Meeting between board of education and fiscal authority required. Duty to negotiate. Procedure if legislative body rejects contract. (a) Within thirty days prior to the date on which the local or regional board of education is to commence negotiations pursuant to th…

Sec. 10-153e. Prohibited practices of employers, employees and representatives. Hearing before State Board of Labor Relations. Appeal. Penalty. (a) No certified professional employee shall, in an effort to effect a settlement of any disagreement with the employing board of educat…

Sec. 10-153f. Mediation and arbitration of disagreements. (a) There shall be in the Department of Education an arbitration panel of not less than twenty-four or more than twenty-nine persons to serve as provided in subsection (c) of this section. The Governor shall appoint the me…

Sec. 10-153g. Negotiations concerning salaries, hours and other conditions of employment unaffected by special acts, charters, ordinances. Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act, municipal charter or local ordinance, the provisions of sections 10-153a to 10-153n, inclu…

Sec. 10-153h. Appropriation. Section 10-153h is repealed. (1969, P.A. 811, S. 7; P.A. 76-403, S. 7, 11.)

Sec. 10-153i. Designation of statutory agent for service of process. (a)(1) Each administrators' or teachers' representative organization shall file with the commissioner a written designation, on such form as the commissioner shall prescribe, of a statutory agent for service of …

Sec. 10-153j. The making of service of process, notice or demand. (a) Except for citations for contempt, any process, notice or demand in connection with any action or proceeding pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10-153e, to be served upon any member of an administrators' uni…

Sec. 10-153k. Teacher Negotiation Act applies to incorporated or endowed high schools or academies. The provisions of sections 10-153a to 10-153n, inclusive, shall apply to all certified professional employees of an incorporated or endowed high school or academy approved pursuant…

Sec. 10-153l. Applicability of employment of teachers statute and teacher negotiation law to incorporated or endowed high schools or academies. The provisions of section 10-151 as it pertains to employment of certified professional employees of an incorporated or endowed high sch…

Sec. 10-153m. Payment of attorney's fees in proceedings to vacate or confirm teacher grievance arbitration awards. In any action brought pursuant to section 52-418 to vacate an arbitration award rendered in a controversy between a board of education and a teacher or the organizat…

Sec. 10-153n. Applicability of employment of teachers statute and teacher negotiation law to the Gilbert School in Winchester. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 10-153l, the provisions of section 10-151 as it pertains to employment of certified professional employees of a…

Sec. 10-153o. Review of performance of arbitration panel members. The Commissioner of Education shall develop a process to annually review the performance of each member of the arbitration panel appointed pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10-153f, including an evaluation of t…

Sec. 10-153p to 10-153r. Summary of results of contract negotiations. Monitoring of major economic provisions of contracts. Report concerning contracts to General Assembly. Sections 10-153p to 10-153r, inclusive, are repealed, effective July 1, 1997. (P.A. 90-325, S. 25–27, 32; P…

Sec. 10-153s. Negotiation, arbitration and ratification of turnaround plans for commissioner's network schools. (a) Upon approval of the turnaround plan, developed pursuant to subsection (d) of section 10-223h, by the State Board of Education or, if the Commissioner of Education …

Sec. 10-153t. Turnaround plan referees. On or before July 1, 2012, the Department of Education shall create a list of turnaround plan referees to be used by local or regional boards of education for schools selected to participate in the commissioner's network of schools and the …

Sec. 10-154. Homes and transportation for teachers. Section 10-154 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1441; P.A. 78-218, S. 211.)

Sec. 10-154a. Professional communications between teacher or nurse and student. Surrender of physical evidence obtained from students. (a) As used in this section: (1) “School” means a public school as defined in section 10-183b or a private elementary or secondary school attenda…

Sec. 10-155. Emergency teacher training program. The Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System may maintain an emergency training program to prepare graduates of approved four-year colleges and universities to teach in the elementary schools of the state. In c…

Secs. 10-155a to 10-155c. Cooperative arrangements for teacher training. Subcommittee and advisory committee for program. State grants. Sections 10-155a to 10-155c, inclusive, are repealed. (1967, P.A. 761, S. 1–4; 1969, P.A. 230; P.A. 75-556, S. 1–3; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A.…

Sec. 10-155cc. Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Adjusted staff members in the school district or regional educational service center” means the result obtained by multiplying the total number, according to the Teachers' Retirement Board data pursuant to sub…

Sec. 10-155d. Preparation of teachers. Alternate route programs for teachers, administrators and early childhood education teachers. (a) The Office of Higher Education shall encourage and support experimentation and research in the preparation of teachers for public elementary an…

Secs. 10-155dd to 10-155gg. Grants to implement comprehensive professional development plans. Planning grants to develop or revise teacher evaluation programs. Grants to implement, assess and improve teacher evaluation programs. Planning grants for teacher career incentive progra…

Sec. 10-155e. Development of programs to assist paraprofessionals to fulfill state certification requirements. Report to General Assembly. Section 10-155e is repealed, effective July 1, 2013. (1971, P.A. 414; P.A. 73-324; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 46; P.A. 84-24…

Sec. 10-155f. Residency requirement prohibited. No municipality or school district shall require that an individual reside within the municipality or school district as a condition for appointment or continued employment as a school teacher. (P.A. 78-203.) Cited. 216 C. 253.

Sec. 10-155g. Educational Excellence Trust Fund. There is established a fund to be known as the “Educational Excellence Trust Fund”. Moneys deposited in the fund shall be held by the Treasurer separate and apart from all other moneys, funds and accounts. Investment earnings credi…

Sec. 10-155h. Educational excellence program administered by department. Governor to recommend appropriation for. Section 10-155h is repealed. (P.A. 85-554, S. 2, 6; P.A. 88-136, S. 36, 37.)

Sec. 10-155i. Pilot program to assist paraprofessionals. Section 10-155i is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 89-355, S. 15, 20; P.A. 91-361, S. 1, 2; P.A. 95-226, S. 15, 30; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 10-155j. Development of paraeducators. The Department of Education shall, within available appropriations, promote and encourage professional development activities for paraeducators with instructional responsibilities. Such activities may include, but shall not be limited t…

Sec. 10-155k. School Paraeducator Advisory Council. On and after July 1, 2013, the Commissioner of Education shall establish a School Paraprofessional Advisory Council, which on and after July 1, 2021, shall be known as the School Paraeducator Advisory Council, consisting of (1) …

Sec. 10-155l. Minority teacher recruitment. (a) For purposes of this section, “minority” means individuals whose race is defined as other than white, or whose ethnicity is defined as Hispanic or Latino by the federal Office of Management and Budget for use by the Bureau of Census…

Sec. 10-155m. Promotion of teaching profession as career option to high school students. (a) The Commissioner of Education, the chancellor of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities and the dean of the Neag School of Education at The University of Connecticut shall jointl…

Secs. 10-155n to 10-155q. Teacher career incentive programs. Applications for grants; selection criteria. Project evaluations; statement of expenditures. Grant program administration. Sections 10-155n to 10-155q, inclusive, are repealed. (P.A. 85-405, S. 1–5; P.A. 86-333, S. 18–2…