Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 168 - School Attendance and Employment of Children
Section 10-188. - Private schools and instruction.

Attendance of children at a school other than a public school shall not be regarded as compliance with the laws of the state requiring parents and other persons having control of children to cause them to attend school, unless the teachers or persons having control of such school file with the Commissioner of Education student attendance reports at such times and in such forms as the commissioner prescribes, and make such reports and returns concerning the school under their charge to the Commissioner of Education as are required from boards of education concerning the public schools, except that no report concerning finances shall be required. The Commissioner of Education shall furnish to the teachers or persons having charge of any school such forms as may be necessary for compliance with the provisions of this section.

(1949 Rev., S. 1449; P.A. 77-614, S. 302, 610; P.A. 88-360, S. 22, 63.)
History: P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of education for secretary of the state board of education, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 88-360 substituted the filing of student attendance reports with the commissioner of education for the keeping of a register of attendance open to the inspection of the commissioner and agents of the state board of education and provided that the commissioner furnish forms rather than registers and blanks for returns, upon request.
Cited. 147 C. 374; 149 C. 720.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 10 - Education and Culture

Chapter 168 - School Attendance and Employment of Children

Section 10-184. - Duties of parents. School attendance age requirements.

Section 10-184a. - Special education programs or services for children educated in a home or private school.

Section 10-184b. - Waiver provisions not applicable to equivalent instruction authority of parents.

Section 10-185. - Penalty.

Section 10-186. - Duties of local and regional boards of education re school attendance. Hearings. Appeals to state board. Establishment of hearing board. Readmission. Transfers.

Section 10-187. - Appeal from finding of hearing board.

Section 10-188. - Private schools and instruction.

Section 10-189 to 10-192. - Leaving certificate. Educationally retarded children, exception. Physical examination. Employer's duty upon receiving leaving certificate.

Section 10-193. - Certificate of age for minors in certain occupations.

Section 10-194. - Penalty.

Section 10-195. - Evidence of age.

Section 10-196. - Agents.

Section 10-197. - Penalty for employment of child under fourteen.

Section 10-198. - False statement as to age.

Section 10-198a. - Policies and procedures concerning truants.

Section 10-198b. - State Board of Education to define “excused absence”, “unexcused absence” and “disciplinary absence”.

Section 10-198c. - Attendance review teams.

Section 10-198d. - Chronic absenteeism prevention and intervention plan.

Section 10-198e. - Truancy intervention models.

Section 10-198f. - Mental health wellness days.

Section 10-199. - Attendance officers. Duties.

Section 10-200. - Habitual truants.

Section 10-201. - Fees for arresting truants.

Section 10-202. - Warrant and hearing.

Section 10-202a to 10-202d. - Dropout prevention pilot program; establishment. Attendance plan. Testing; inventory of skills and interests. Programs and services; assistance; report.

Section 10-202e. - Policy on dropout prevention.

Section 10-202f. - Dropout prevention grant program.