(a) The State Board of Education, in collaboration with the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, the Department of Developmental Services and the Office of Workforce Strategy, shall: (1) Coordinate the provision of transition resources, services and programs to children requiring special education and related services, (2) create, and update as necessary, a fact sheet that lists the state agencies that provide transition resources, services and programs and a brief description of such transition resources, services and programs and disseminate such fact sheet to local and regional boards of education for distribution to parents, teachers, administrators and boards of education, and (3) annually collect information related to transition resources, programs and services provided by other state agencies and make such information available to parents, teachers, administrators and boards of education.
(b) For the school year commencing July 1, 2016, and each school year thereafter, the State Board of Education shall distribute the information described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section to each local or regional board of education. Each local or regional board of education shall annually distribute such information to the parent of a child requiring special education and related services in grades six to twelve, inclusive, at a planning and placement team meeting for such child. As used in this section, “parent” means the parent or guardian of a child requiring special education or the surrogate parent or, in the case of a pupil who is an emancipated minor or eighteen years of age or older, the pupil.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 266; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 233.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 effective July 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “Office of Workforce Competitiveness” with “Office of Workforce Strategy”, effective July 1, 2021.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10 - Education and Culture
Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities
Section 10-15c. - Discrimination in public schools prohibited. School attendance by five-year-olds.
Section 10-15j. - Connecticut Remote Learning Commission.
Section 10-15l. - Comprehensive audit re provision of remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic.
Section 10-15m. - Purple Star School Program.
Section 10-16. - Length of school year.
Section 10-16o. - Development of network of school readiness programs.
Section 10-16r. - Local school readiness councils; duties. Regional school readiness councils.
Section 10-16uu. - Black and Latino studies course to be offered in grades nine to twelve.
Section 10-16vv. - Native American studies instruction.
Section 10-19o. (Formerly Sec. 17a-40a). - Youth service bureau grant program.
Section 10-21j. - Connecticut Apprenticeship and Education Committee.
Section 10-25b. - Model curriculum for grades kindergarten to eight.
Section 10-66ss. - Amendment to charter.
Section 10-71. - State grants for adult education programs.
Section 10-76g. - State aid for special education.
Section 10-76q. - Special education at technical education and career schools.
Section 10-91g. - Audits of private providers of special education services.