Title 10, Title 10: Education and Culture

Sec. 10-222q. *(See end of section for amended version of subsection (a) and effective date.) Social and Emotional Learning and School Climate Advisory Collaborative. Duties. *(a) There is established a social and emotional learning and school climate advisory collaborative. The …

Sec. 10-222r. Publication of plain language explanation of rights and remedies. Not later than June 30, 2021, each local and regional board of education shall publish on the Internet web site of such board the plain language explanation of the rights and remedies available under …

Sec. 10-222s. Provision of training materials re prevention of and intervention in discrimination and harassment against students. Each local and regional board of education, in consultation with the Department of Education and the social and emotional learning and school climate…

Sec. 10-222t. Administration of social-emotional learning assessment. (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2021, and each school year thereafter, the Department of Education may provide to and assist local and regional boards of education in administering a social-emotional…

Sec. 10-222u. State-wide social-emotional support strategy. (a) The Social Emotional Learning and School Climate Advisory Collaborative, established pursuant to section 10-222q, in consultation with the Department of Education, the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Servic…

Sec. 10-222v. Social-emotional learning standards for grades four to twelve. Not later than October 1, 2022, the Department of Education shall develop student social-emotional learning standards for grades four to twelve, inclusive. Such standards shall be designed for a multitie…

Sec. 10-222w. *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Working group re bullying and safe school climate plans. Not later than January 1, 2022, the Social Emotional Learning and School Climate Advisory Collaborative, established pursuant to section 10-222q, s…

Sec. 10-222x. Inclusion of 9-8-8 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number on student identification cards. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, for the school year commencing July 1, 2023, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional …

Sec. 10-222y. Implementation of Title IX compliance toolkit by boards of education. For the school year commencing July 1, 2025, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall implement the Title IX compliance toolkit, identified or developed pu…

Sec. 10-222z. Title IX compliance report. (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2026, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall submit a Title IX compliance report to the Department of Education, in such form and manner as prescribed b…

Sec. 10-223. Separate high school accounts. Section 10-223 is repealed, effective June 3, 1996. (1949 Rev., S. 1481; P.A. 78-218, S. 148; P.A. 96-161, S. 12, 13.)

Sec. 10-223a. Promotion and graduation policies. Basic skills necessary for graduation; assessment process. (a) On or before July 1, 2000, each local and regional board of education shall review and revise its policies for promotion from grade to grade and for graduation in order…

Secs. 10-223b to 10-223d. List of schools in need of improvement; process for improving school performance. Grants for schools in need of improvement. Identification of successful programs and methods. Sections 10-223b to 10-223d, inclusive, are repealed, effective August 15, 200…

Sec. 10-223e. State-wide education accountability plan. State-wide performance management and support plan. Actions. Study of academic achievement. Reconstitution of boards of education. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Accountability index” means the score resulting from multip…

Sec. 10-223f. Use of charter school student performance data in the calculation of accountability index scores for alliance districts. (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2015, and each school year thereafter, the Department of Education shall calculate the accountability …

Sec. 10-223g. On-line credit recovery program. On-line learning coordinator. A local or regional board of education for a school district with a dropout rate of eight per cent or greater in the previous school year shall establish an on-line credit recovery program. Such program …

Sec. 10-223h. Commissioner's network of schools. Turnaround committees. Operations and instructional audit. Turnaround plans. Reports. (a) The Commissioner of Education shall establish, within available appropriations, a commissioner's network of schools to improve student academ…

Sec. 10-223i. Contracts between boards of education and not-for-profit educational management organizations. Operations report. Enrollment policies. (a) The local or regional board of education for a school participating in the commissioner's network of schools, as described in s…

Sec. 10-223j. School governance councils. (a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (4) of this subsection, on and after July 1, 2012, the local or regional board of education for a school that has been identified as in need of improvement pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection…

Sec. 10-223k. Department of Education to publish certain plans, rankings and formulas. The Department of Education shall annually publish and make available on the department's Internet web site (1) the state-wide performance management and support plan, as described in subsectio…

Sec. 10-223l. Model school district responsibilities agreement. (a) Not later than January 1, 2018, the Department of Education may develop a model school district responsibilities agreement. In developing such model agreement, the department may consider any existing school dist…

Sec. 10-223m. Adoption of policy to improve completion rates of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Not later than July 1, 2022, each local and regional board of education shall adopt a policy to improve completion rates of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid b…

Sec. 10-223n. Publication of completion rates of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Not later than July 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Department of Education shall publish and make available on its Internet web site the student completion rate of the Free Appli…

Sec. 10-224. Duties of the secretary. The secretary of the board of education shall keep a record of all its proceedings in a book which such secretary shall provide for that purpose at the expense of the town and shall submit to the town at its annual meetings a report of the do…

Sec. 10-225. Salaries of secretary and attendance officers. The salaries and compensation of the secretary of the board of education and of the attendance officers may be fixed by the town, as provided in section 7-460, but, until the town acts, the board of education shall fix s…

Sec. 10-226. Reports to Commissioner of Education. Each local and regional board of education shall annually, before the first of October, return to the Commissioner of Education the name and the address of employment and contractual annual salary, or the equivalent thereof, of e…

Sec. 10-226a. Documentation of pupils and teachers of racial minorities and pupils eligible for free or reduced price lunches. (a) Each local or regional board of education shall annually submit to the State Board of Education at such time and in such manner as the state board ma…

Sec. 10-226b. Existence of racial imbalance. (a) Whenever the State Board of Education finds that racial imbalance exists in a public school, it shall notify in writing the board of education having jurisdiction over said school that such finding has been made, except the State B…

Sec. 10-226c. Plan to correct imbalance. (a) Any board of education receiving notification of the existence of racial imbalance as specified in section 10-226b shall forthwith prepare a plan to correct such imbalance and file a copy of said plan with the State Board of Education,…

Sec. 10-226d. Approval of plan by state board. Upon receipt of any plan required under the provisions of subsection (b) of section 10-226c, the State Board of Education shall review said plan. If it determines that the plan is satisfactory, it shall approve the plan and shall pro…

Sec. 10-226e. Regulations. The State Board of Education shall have the authority to establish regulations for the operation of sections 10-226a to 10-226e, inclusive, including times and procedures for reports to said board, and the criteria for approval of plans to correct racia…

Sec. 10-226f. Coordinator of intergroup relations. The State Board of Education shall select one of its employees to assume responsibility, in addition to whatever other duties said board may prescribe, as coordinator of intergroup relations, and shall prescribe duties for such c…

Sec. 10-226g. Intergroup relations training for teachers. Each regional and local board of education may, in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the State Board of Education, provide a program in intergroup relations training for all teachers employed in the …

Sec. 10-226h. Programs and methods to reduce racial, ethnic and economic isolation. (a) A local or regional board of education for purposes of subdivision (3) of section 10-4a, may offer such programs or use such methods as: (1) Interdistrict magnet school programs; (2) charter s…

Sec. 10-227. Returns of receipts, expenditures and statistics to Commissioner of Education. Verification mandated. Penalty. Publication. (a) Each board of education shall cause the superintendent to make returns not later than September first of each year to the Commissioner of E…

Sec. 10-228. Free textbooks, supplies, material and equipment. Each local and regional board of education shall purchase such books, either as regular texts, as supplementary books or as library books, and such supplies, material and equipment, as it deems necessary to meet the n…

Sec. 10-228a. Free textbook loans to pupils attending nonpublic schools. Each local and regional board of education may, at the request of any nonpublic elementary or secondary school pupil, including a kindergarten pupil, residing in and attending a nonpublic school in such dist…

Sec. 10-228b. Tax credits for donation of computers to schools. (a) The Commissioner of Revenue Services shall grant a credit against any tax due under the provisions of chapter 207, 208, 209, 210, 211 or 212, in any income year commencing prior to January 1, 2014, for the donati…

Sec. 10-229. Change of textbooks. (a) No board of education shall change any textbooks used in the public schools except by a two-thirds vote of all the members of the board, notice of such intended change having been previously given at a meeting of such board held at least one …

Sec. 10-230. Flags in schoolrooms and schools. Policy on the reciting of the “Pledge of Allegiance”. (a) Each local and regional board of education shall provide a United States flag for each schoolroom and shall cause such flag to be displayed therein during each day school is i…

Sec. 10-230a. Employment of instructors of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps programs. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 166 relating to professional certification, a local or regional board of education may employ any person certified by the United States armed force…

Sec. 10-230b. Exemplary veterans education program distinction. The State Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Veterans Affairs, shall award, upon receipt of a request, an exemplary veterans education program distinction to those local and regional boards of…

Sec. 10-231. Fire drills. Crisis response drills. (a) Each local and regional board of education shall provide for a fire drill to be held in the schools of such board not later than thirty days after the first day of each school year and at least once each month thereafter, exce…

Sec. 10-231a. Pesticide applications at schools: Definitions. As used in sections 10-231b to 10-231d, inclusive, (1) “pesticide” means a fungicide used on plants, an insecticide, a herbicide or a rodenticide, but does not mean a sanitizer, disinfectant, antimicrobial agent or pes…

Sec. 10-231b. Pesticide applications at schools: Authorized applications. Ban. Exceptions. (a) No person, other than a pesticide applicator with supervisory certification under section 22a-54 or a pesticide applicator with operational certification under section 22a-54 under the …

Sec. 10-231c. Pesticide applications at schools without an integrated pest management plan. Prior notice. (a) As used in this section, “local or regional board of education” means a local or regional board of education that does not have an integrated pest management plan for the…