Title 10, Title 10: Education and Culture

Sec. 10-156b. Tenure and sick leave rights of teacher on regionalization of school and on dissolution of regional school district. (a) In determining the rights and benefits earned by a teacher under section 10-151 and section 10-156, the establishment of a new regional school di…

Sec. 10-156bb. Increasing Educator Diversity Policy Oversight Council. There is established an Increasing Educator Diversity Policy Oversight Council within the Department of Education. The council shall consist of (1) the Commissioner of Education, or the commissioner's designee…

Sec. 10-156c. Military leave. Each professional employee certified by the State Board of Education and employed by a local or regional board of education who is a member of the reserve corps of any branch of the armed forces of the United States, as defined in section 27-103, sha…

Sec. 10-156cc. Report re effectiveness of minority teacher recruitment programs. Not later than July 1, 2017, and annually thereafter, the Department of Education shall submit a report using results-based accountability measures to assess the effectiveness of minority teacher rec…

Sec. 10-156d. Reemployment after military leave. Any professional employee certified by the State Board of Education and employed by a local or regional board of education who leaves such employment for the purpose of entering the armed forces of the United States, as defined in …

Sec. 10-156dd. Student survey re minority teacher recruitment programs. Not later than January 1, 2017, and annually thereafter, the Department of Education shall conduct a survey of students participating in minority teacher recruitment programs offered by regional educational s…

Sec. 10-156e. Employees of boards of education permitted to serve as elected officials; exception. Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act or municipal charter or ordinance to the contrary, any employee of a local or regional board of education or of an incorporated or …

Sec. 10-156ee. Duties re recruitment of diverse educators. Not later than January 1, 2019, the Department of Education, in consultation with the Increasing Educator Diversity Policy Oversight Council, established pursuant to section 10-156bb, shall (1) identify relevant research …

Sec. 10-156f. Tenure and sick leave rights of teacher employed by Goodwin University Magnet Schools, Inc. or Goodwin University Education Services, Inc. In determining the rights and benefits earned by a teacher under sections 10-151 and 10-156, employment in a school operated by…

Sec. 10-156ff. Strategies and utilization of resources for the hiring and employment of diverse teachers and administrators. For the school year commencing July 1, 2020, and each school year thereafter, the Increasing Educator Diversity Policy Oversight Council, established pursu…

Sec. 10-156gg. Minority candidate certification, retention or residency year program. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Minority” has the same meaning as provided in section 10-156bb; (2) “Minority candidate” means an individual who is a minority and employed by a local or region…

Sec. 10-156hh. Completion of video training module re implicit bias and anti-bias in hiring process for certain school district employees. For the school year commencing July 1, 2023, and each school year thereafter, any employee of a local or regional board of education who is i…

Sec. 10-156ii. Aspiring educators diversity scholarship program. (a) There is established an aspiring educators diversity scholarship program administered by the Department of Education. The program shall provide an annual scholarship to diverse students who (1) graduated from a …

Sec. 10-156jj. Increasing educator diversity plans: Submission; review; approval; revision; implementation; made available. (a) Not later than March 15, 2024, each local and regional board of education shall submit the increasing educator diversity plan described in subsection (a…

Sec. 10-157. Superintendents: Relationship to local or regional board of education; verification of certification status; waiver of certification; written contract of employment; evaluation of superintendent by board of education. (a) Each local board of education for a municipal…

Sec. 10-157a. Superintendent for more than one town. (a) Notwithstanding any provisions of the general statutes to the contrary, the boards of education of any two or more towns, or the board of education of any regional school district and the board of education of one or more o…

Sec. 10-158. Superintendent for more than one town. Supervision districts. Section 10-158 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1443; 1961, P.A. 544, S. 2.)

Sec. 10-158a. Cooperative arrangements among towns. School building projects. Student transportation. (a) Any two or more boards of education may, in writing, agree to establish cooperative arrangements to provide school accommodations services, programs or activities, special ed…

Secs. 10-159 and 10-159a. Supervisory service by State Board of Education. Election to receive grant in lieu of supervisory service. Sections 10-159 and 10-159a are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1444; 1969, P.A. 698, S. 23; 1971, P.A. 861, S. 1; 1972, P.A. 193, S. 1; P.A. 78-218, S. 1…

Secs. 10-160 to 10-180b. Definitions. Extra duty or coaching. Retirement system and retirement association. Teachers' Retirement Board. Bylaws, regulations and funds. Retirement qualifications. Cost of living allowances and adjustment. Teachers retiring on or after July 1, 1975. …

Sec. 10-180c. Administration of retirement funds for teachers at E. O. Smith School. See chapter 66, Sec. 5-192d.

Secs. 10-181 to 10-183a. Certain towns reimbursed. Insurance deductions. Participation in hospital insurance benefits under Social Security Act. Substitute teaching or temporary employment by retired teacher. Employment of retired teacher in emergency. Sections 10-181 to 10-183a,…

Sec. 10-183aa. Disability allowance. (a)(1) An active member is eligible for a disability allowance if he or she has (A) become disabled as a result of any sickness or injury incurred in the performance of his or her duty as a teacher, without regard to the member's accumulated y…

Sec. 10-183b. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Actuarial reserve basis” means a basis under which the liabilities of the retirement system are determined under acceptable actuarial methods and under which assets are accumulated und…

Sec. 10-183bb. Suspension or reduction of retirement income payments during disability. (a) Retirement income payments being made to a member shall be suspended during any period when the member is receiving disability payments and necessary medical and hospital expenses because …

Sec. 10-183c. Teachers' retirement system established. Benefits contractual. (a) The Connecticut teachers' retirement system is established to provide retirement and other benefits for teachers, their survivors and beneficiaries. On or after a member vests in the system by becomi…

Sec. 10-183cc. Payments on behalf of minor or legally incapable payees. If the payee for any payment of benefits under the provisions of this chapter is a minor, or if the Teachers' Retirement Board finds that any payee is legally incapable of giving a valid receipt and discharge…

Sec. 10-183d. Members of association to become members of system. Any member of the Teachers' Retirement Association, established by prior law, on July 1, 1978 shall automatically be a member of the system. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all members including inact…

Sec. 10-183dd. Retirement contributions; quarterly allocations. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the general statutes to the contrary, the amounts appropriated to the Teachers' Retirement Board for retirement contributions under section 1 of special act 82-10 for the fisc…

Sec. 10-183e. Credited service. (a)(1) A member shall receive a month of credited service for each month of service, from September to June, inclusive, as a teacher, provided the member makes the mandatory contribution for each month. Ten months of credited service shall be deeme…

Sec. 10-183ee. Unclaimed contributions. Procedure for claiming. (a) After at least twenty-five years have elapsed since a vested member, or ten years have elapsed since a nonvested member, of the teachers' retirement system ceased to be a teacher for any cause other than death or…

Sec. 10-183f. Benefit eligibility. (a) Normal retirement. A member is eligible to receive a normal retirement benefit if such member (1) has attained age sixty and has accumulated twenty years of credited service in the public schools of Connecticut, or (2) has attained any age a…

Sec. 10-183ff. Erroneous payments; adjustment, repayment or refund. Erroneous invoices; purchase of additional credited service. Payment of benefits when material error in estimate of benefits statement. (a) Should any change or error in records result in any member or beneficiar…

Sec. 10-183g. Benefit rates. Commencing and ending dates. (a) Normal retirement. The normal retirement benefit shall be two per cent times the number of years of full-time credited service and a proportional fraction of two per cent times the number of years of credited service a…

Sec. 10-183gg. Part-time service. Determination of benefits. Part-time service averaging at least one-half of a school day but less than a full school day shall be treated as full-time service for purposes of determining eligibility for benefits under this chapter. For purposes o…

Sec. 10-183h. Death benefits. (a) Survivors' benefits; waiver. The basic monthly survivor's benefit, subject to a family maximum of one thousand five hundred dollars, shall be (1) three hundred dollars each for a surviving spouse, plus twenty-five dollars for each year of service…

Sec. 10-183hh. Credit for certain service as a school nurse. For purposes of calculating retirement benefits under the provisions of this chapter, service as a school nurse during the years 1970 to 1975, inclusive, shall be considered as credited service as a teacher during the s…

Sec. 10-183i. Member's voluntary contributions. Limitations. (a) A member may make voluntary contributions to the system and may, no more than once, withdraw such voluntary contributions from the system under rules of the board. Any voluntary contribution shall be made solely by …

Sec. 10-183ii. Mailing date for benefit checks. Electronic transmission of benefit payments. The Teachers' Retirement Board shall mail retirement benefit checks on the next to last business day prior to the date on which such checks are payable. Any member whose retirement benefi…

Sec. 10-183j. Benefit options. Period certain. Coparticipant's option. Retention of option after divorce. (a) A member shall elect one of the benefit options described in this section. A member may amend or revoke such benefit option election by delivering written notice, signed …

Sec. 10-183jj. Retirement incentive plans for teachers. (a) A local or regional board of education may establish a retirement incentive plan for teachers in its employ who are members of the teachers' retirement system. The plan shall provide for purchase of additional credited s…

Sec. 10-183k. Termination of service prior to retirement. (a) A member who voluntarily or involuntarily terminates service with the member's employer, including termination due to the member's death, before retirement shall be entitled to have refunded his or her accumulated volu…

Sec. 10-183kk. Employer pick up of mandatory contributions commencing July 1, 1991. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, mandatory retirement contributions described in subdivision (7) of section 10-183b payable on all salary earned on or after July 1, 1991, shal…

Sec. 10-183l. Teachers' Retirement Board. Valuation of fund. (a)(1) On and after July 1, 1991, the management of the system shall continue to be vested in the Teachers' Retirement Board, whose members shall include the Treasurer, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Manageme…

Sec. 10-183ll. Supplemental retirement benefit for certain members whose retirement became effective between July 1, 1989, and November 1, 1989. Section 10-183ll is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 90-331, S. 1, 3; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 10-183m. Custody of funds. (a) All funds of the system shall be in the custody of the State Treasurer who shall invest such portions of the same not required for current disbursements in accordance with the statutes governing the investment of savings bank funds or, when dee…