Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 168 - School Attendance and Employment of Children
Section 10-202e. - Policy on dropout prevention.

The State Board of Education shall adopt a state policy on dropout prevention. The policy shall include, but not be limited to, the encouragement of: (1) The local identification of students in grades kindergarten to twelve, inclusive, who are at risk of dropping out of school; (2) the development, expansion and coordination of local services to such students; and (3) the coordination of dropout prevention programs administered by state agencies.

(P.A. 87-423, S. 1, 3.)

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.