(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 regional board of education as a school paraprofessional or an associate instructor;
(3) “Residency program” means a certification program approved by the State Board of Education that requires participants to complete a residency in which such participants serve (A) in a position otherwise requiring professional certification, and (B) in a full-time position for ten school months at a local or regional board of education in the state under the supervision of (i) a certified administrator or teacher, and (ii) a supervisor from the regional educational service center or private, nonprofit teacher or administrator operating such certification program; and
(4) “Alliance district” has the same meaning as provided in section 10-262u.
(b) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Education shall administer the minority candidate certification, retention or residency year program. Such program shall assist (1) minority candidates in enrolling in a residency program for purposes of becoming full-time, certified teachers upon successful completion of such residency program, and (2) local and regional boards of education in hiring and retaining such minority candidates.
(c) (1) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and each fiscal year thereafter, each local and regional board of education for an alliance district shall partner with the operator of a residency program for purposes of enrolling minority candidates and placing them in such school district as part of such residency program. Following the successful completion of the residency program by a minority candidate, such board may hire such minority candidate. Such board may apply to the Commissioner of Education, at such time and in such manner as the commissioner prescribes, to receive a payment, as described in subdivision (2) of this subsection, for any of the costs described in subsection (e) of this section.
(2) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Commissioner of Education shall withhold from an alliance district, from the funds transferred by the Comptroller pursuant to subsection (c) of section 10-262u, ten per cent of any increase in such funds that such alliance district receives for the fiscal year over the amount of such funds that it received for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020. The department shall use such funds to make a payment to such alliance district and such alliance district shall expend such payment for any of the costs described in subsection (e) of this section.
(d) (1) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and each fiscal year thereafter, any local or regional board of education, other than a local or regional board of education for an alliance district, may partner with the operator of a residency program for purposes of enrolling minority candidates and placing them in such school district as part of such residency program. Following the successful completion of the residency program by a minority candidate, such board may hire such minority candidate. Such board may apply to the Commissioner of Education, at such time and in such manner as the commissioner prescribes, to receive a grant for any of the costs described in subsection (e) of this section.
(2) The commissioner may, within available appropriations, award a grant to a local or regional board of education described in subdivision (1) of this subsection for any of the costs described in subsection (e) of this section.
(e) Any payments made or grants awarded under this section may be used for costs associated with the (1) enrollment of such minority candidates in a residency program, (2) certification process for such minority candidates, (3) hiring of such minority candidates following the successful completion of a residency program, or (4) retention of such minority candidates as certified employees of the school district.
(f) Any unexpended funds paid or awarded to a local or regional board of education under this section shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year but shall be available for expenditure during the next fiscal year for purposes of implementing the provisions of this section.
(g) The department shall develop guidelines and criteria for the implementation of the minority candidate certification, retention or residency year program and administration of funds under this section.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 378.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 effective July 1, 2021.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10 - Education and Culture
Chapter 166 - Teachers and Superintendents
Section 10-144o. - Definitions.
Section 10-145a. (Formerly Sec. 10-146). - Specific components of teacher preparation programs.
Section 10-145b. - Teaching certificates.
Section 10-145c. - Election of persons certified provisionally before July 1, 1974.
Section 10-145e. - Certification for occupational subjects.
Section 10-145f. - Testing for prospective teachers.
Section 10-145g. - Regulations.
Section 10-145h. - Requirements for certification as a bilingual education teacher.
Section 10-145j. - Employment of national corps of teachers' training program graduates.
Section 10-145k. - Issuance of international teacher permit.
Section 10-145l. - Waiver from subject area major requirements for certain teachers.
Section 10-145m. - Resident teacher certificate.
Section 10-145n. - Issuance of adjunct instructor permit.
Section 10-145q. - Issuance of charter school educator permit.
Section 10-145r. - Survey on reading instruction.
Section 10-145s. - Distinguished educator designation.
Section 10-145y. - Issuance of career and technical pathways instructor permit.
Section 10-146a. - Advisory board on state certification of teachers.
Section 10-146f. - Waiver of certification requirements for bilingual teachers.
Section 10-146g. - Teachers of specialized courses.
Section 10-146h. - Report re quality of teacher preparation programs.
Section 10-146i. - Military spouse teacher permit.
Section 10-147 and 10-148. - Kindergarten certificates. Teacher to have certificate.
Section 10-148a. - Professional development for certified employees.
Section 10-148d. - Professional development for paraeducators.
Section 10-149. - Qualifications for athletic coaches of intramural and interscholastic athletics.
Section 10-149d. - Athletic directors. Definitions. Qualifications and hiring. Duties.
Section 10-149f. - Sudden cardiac arrest awareness education program. Consent form.
Section 10-149h. - Exertional heat illness awareness education program.
Section 10-150 and 10-150a. - School registers.
Section 10-151a. - Access of teacher to supervisory records and reports in personnel file.
Section 10-151c. - Nondisclosure of records of teacher performance and evaluation. Exceptions.
Section 10-151d. - Performance Evaluation Advisory Council. Responsibilities.
Section 10-151f. - Teacher evaluation and support pilot program.
Section 10-151g. - Neag School of Education study of teacher evaluation and support pilot program.
Section 10-151i. - Audits of teacher evaluation and support programs.
Section 10-152. - Discrimination in salaries of teachers.
Section 10-153b. - Selection of teachers' representatives.
Section 10-153c. - Disputes as to elections.
Section 10-153f. - Mediation and arbitration of disagreements.
Section 10-153h. - Appropriation.
Section 10-153i. - Designation of statutory agent for service of process.
Section 10-153j. - The making of service of process, notice or demand.
Section 10-153o. - Review of performance of arbitration panel members.
Section 10-153t. - Turnaround plan referees.
Section 10-154. - Homes and transportation for teachers.
Section 10-155. - Emergency teacher training program.
Section 10-155cc. - Definitions.
Section 10-155f. - Residency requirement prohibited.
Section 10-155g. - Educational Excellence Trust Fund.
Section 10-155i. - Pilot program to assist paraprofessionals.
Section 10-155j. - Development of paraprofessionals.
Section 10-155k. - School Paraeducator Advisory Council.
Section 10-155l. - Minority teacher recruitment.
Section 10-155m. - Promotion of teaching profession as career option to high school students.
Section 10-156a. - Duty-free lunch period.
Section 10-156aa. - Task Force to Diversify the Educator Workforce.
Section 10-156bb. - Minority Teacher Recruitment Policy Oversight Council.
Section 10-156c. - Military leave.
Section 10-156cc. - Report re effectiveness of minority teacher recruitment programs.
Section 10-156d. - Reemployment after military leave.
Section 10-156dd. - Student survey re minority teacher recruitment programs.
Section 10-156ee. - Duties re minority teacher recruitment.
Section 10-156gg. - Minority candidate certification, retention or residency year program.
Section 10-156ii. - Minority teacher candidate scholarship program.
Section 10-157a. - Superintendent for more than one town.
Section 10-158. - Superintendent for more than one town. Supervision districts.