(a) The State Board of Education shall develop and distribute to all local and regional boards of education a model program to encourage the participation of parents and the community in the local or regional educational system. The model program shall include, but not be limited to, the establishment of school-based teams with representatives of parents, students, teachers, administrators, local or regional boards of education and community groups and organizations assembled to: (1) Foster model agreements between parents and their children with the cooperation of the school, such agreements to cover goals and objectives for the student for the school year; (2) adopt agreements to foster cooperation and improve communication between such representatives regarding matters such as academic rights and responsibilities, codes of social conduct and disciplinary policies; and (3) develop agreements to encourage community residents to take an active role in improving the school and to become school volunteers. The model program developed by the state board shall provide model agreements for the use of school-based teams in the development of their own local or regional agreements.
(b) The State Board of Education shall develop a program to encourage local and regional boards of education to develop and implement plans to involve parents of students in the educational process in that district and to increase community involvement in the schools. The local programs shall include, but not be limited to, providing regular contact with all parents, including opportunities for parents to meet with their children's instructors for the purpose of reviewing the curriculum of their child's program, and developing strategies for parents to actively assist in the educational process. Such local programs shall also include the development of written materials designed to familiarize parents with their child's curriculum and to detail specific activities parents and students may undertake together to enrich the child's education experience and development. The State Board of Education shall develop such program on or before July 1, 1998, and shall immediately distribute the materials explaining the program to all local and regional boards of education.
(P.A. 84-209, S. 1, 2; P.A. 97-290, S. 6, 29.)
History: P.A. 97-290 expanded the model program to include community participation, substituted school-based teams for local or regional panels, added provisions in Subsec. (a) re agreements to improve communication and to encourage community residents to take an active role, amended Subsec. (b) to require local programs to provide regular contact with parents, to require the State Board of Education to develop the model program on or before July 1, 1998, and to delete provisions re submission of plans to the State Board of Education, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1997.
Cited. 226 C. 704.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10 - Education and Culture
Chapter 163 - State Board of Education. Department of Education
Section 10-1. - Appointment of board members.
Section 10-2a. - Student Advisory Council on Education.
Section 10-3. - Prosecuting agents to enforce school laws.
Section 10-3b. - Annual report to the General Assembly re State Education Resource Center.
Section 10-4a. - Educational interests of state identified.
Section 10-4c. - State board to monitor state grants to local and regional boards.
Section 10-4d. - Advisory committee on educational equity.
Section 10-4e. - Coordination and planning for educational technology.
Section 10-4f. - State Board of Education. Copyright authority.
Section 10-4g. - Parental and community involvement in schools; model program; school-based teams.
Section 10-4h. - Grant program for telecommunications projects.
Section 10-4l. - Advisory committee on school district reporting requirements.
Section 10-4m. - Commission on Educational Excellence.
Section 10-4n. - Committee on Educational Equity and Excellence.
Section 10-4s. - Reports and evaluations re school governance councils and reconstituted schools.
Section 10-4t. - Reports and evaluations re school governance councils.
Section 10-4u. - Parent Trust Fund.
Section 10-4v. - Innovation waivers. Procedural requirements. Legislative review.
Section 10-5a. - Educational technology and high school graduation requirements.
Section 10-5b. - Department of Education web site.
Section 10-5c. - Academic advancement program.
Section 10-5e. - Development or approval of end of the school year examinations.
Section 10-7e. - Occupational schools in existence on October 1, 1979.
Section 10-7v. - Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety and Media Literacy Advisory Council.
Section 10-8b. - Teacher shortages.
Section 10-8c. - Accelerated cross endorsement. Former teacher certification.
Section 10-9. - Bequests for educational purposes.
Section 10-9a. - Misuse of state funds or resources. Civil action by department.
Section 10-10. - Acquisition of federal surplus property.
Section 10-10b. - Inclusion of state-assigned student identifier on all official student documents.
Section 10-10c. - Uniform system of accounting. Chart of accounts. Audit.
Section 10-10d. - Regulations re fiscal accountability data collection report.
Section 10-10f. - Minimum budget requirement calculation worksheet.
Section 10-10h. - Document re resources for students and families.
Section 10-11a. - Allocation to meet matching requirements of federal acts.
Section 10-12. - State Board of Vocational Education.
Section 10-13. - Appointment of physicians for technical education and career schools.
Section 10-13a. - Fees at technical institutes.