Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10 - Education and Culture
Chapter 170 - Boards of Education

Section 10-220a. - In-service training. Professional development and evaluation committees. Institutes for educators. Cooperating teacher program, regulations. - (a) Each local or regional board of education shall provide...

Section 10-220b. - Policy statement on drugs. - Section 10-220b is repealed. (P.A. 78-218, S. 145; P.A. 87-499,...

Section 10-220c. - Transportation of children over private roads. Immunity from liability. - (a) Each town, or local or regional board of education...

Section 10-220d. - Student recruitment by regional and interdistrict specialized schools and programs. Recruitment of athletes prohibited. Information re and notice of availability of certain schools and education centers. - Each local and regional board of education shall provide full...

Section 10-220e. - Foster children count. - Section 10-220e is repealed, effective July 1, 2000. (P.A. 98-252,...

Section 10-220f. - Safety committee. - Each local and regional board of education may establish a...

Section 10-220g. - Policy on calculation of students' grade point averages. - Each local and regional board of education shall establish, and...

Section 10-220h. - *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Transfer of student records. - When a student enrolls in a school in a new...

Section 10-220i. - Transportation of students carrying cartridge injectors. - No local or regional board of education shall deny a...

Section 10-220j. - Blood glucose self-testing by children. Guidelines. - (a) No local or regional board of education may prohibit...

Section 10-220k. - Disclosure of educational records re student confined in residential facility. - In the case of a student confined pursuant to court...

Section 10-220l. - Qualified personnel to monitor school swimming pool. School swimming pool safety plan. - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “School swimming pool”...

Section 10-220m. - Review of transportation arrangements of special needs students. - Not later than January 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, each...

Section 10-220p. - Materials provided to students when discussing career options. - Guidance counselors and school counselors may provide materials concerning manufacturing,...

Section 10-220q. - Calculation of grade point average and determination of class rank percentile for Connecticut Automatic Admissions Program. - (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2022, and...

Section 10-221. - Boards of education to prescribe rules, policies and procedures. - (a) As used in this section, “remote learning” means instruction...

Section 10-221a. - *(See end of section for amended version of subsection (i) and effective date.) High school graduation requirements. Student support and remedial services. Excusal from physical education requirement. Diplomas for certain veterans... - (a) For classes graduating from 1988 to 2003, inclusive, no...

Section 10-221b. - Boards of education to establish written uniform policy re treatment of recruiters. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all...

Section 10-221c. - Development of policy for reporting complaints re school transportation safety. Reporting of accidents at school bus stops. - (a) The superintendent of schools of each local or regional...

Section 10-221d. - Criminal history and child abuse and neglect registry records checks of applicants and employees of eligible school operators. Termination or dismissal. Fingerprinting. Availability of information re applicant's history. - (a) As used in this section and sections 10-232b and...

Section 10-221e. - Intradistrict student assignment programs. - Local and regional boards of education may develop intradistrict student...

Section 10-221f. - School uniforms. - A local or regional board of education may specify a...

Section 10-221g. - Instructional time and facility usage assessment. - Each local and regional board of education shall conduct an...

Section 10-221h and 10-221i. - Plan to improve reading skills. Technical assistance; standard of reading competency. - Sections 10-221h and 10-221i are repealed, effective July 1, 2012....

Section 10-221j. - Early Reading Success Panel. - The Department of Education shall convene an Early Reading Success...

Section 10-221k. - Assessments by priority school districts of need related to goal of reading success. - Each local or regional board of education for a priority...

Section 10-221l. - State-Wide Early Reading Success Institute. - The Department of Education shall develop, within available appropriations, a...

Section 10-221m. - Development and implementation of in-service reading instruction training program by priority school districts. - (a) On or before July 1, 2001, each local or...

Section 10-221n. - Independent evaluation. - The Department of Education shall contract, within available appropriations, for...

Section 10-221o. - Lunch periods. Recess. Undirected play. Boards to adopt policies addressing limitation of physical exercise. - (a) Each local and regional board of education shall require...

Section 10-221p. - Boards to make available for purchase nutritious and low-fat foods. - Each local and regional board of education and governing authority...

Section 10-221q. - Sale of beverages. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this...

Section 10-221r. - Advanced placement course program. Guidelines. - (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2011, and...

Section 10-221s. - Posting of Careline telephone number in schools. Investigations of child abuse and neglect. Disciplinary action. - (a) Each local and regional board of education shall post...

Section 10-221t. - Alignment of common core standards with college level programs. - Each local and regional board of education, in collaboration with...

Section 10-221u. - Boards to adopt policies addressing the use of physical activity as discipline. - Not later than October 1, 2013, each local and regional...

Section 10-221v. - Confidential rapid response team re suspected abuse or neglect. - Not later than January 1, 2016, each local and regional...

Section 10-221w. - Policy re eligibility criteria for enrollment in advanced course or program. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Advanced course or...

Section 10-221x. - Challenging curriculum policy. - (a) Not later than July 1, 2022, each local and...

Section 10-221y. - Standardized conversion of transferred credits. Application toward graduation requirements. - The Commissioners of Education and Children and Families shall develop...

Section 10-222. - Appropriations and budget. - Each local board of education shall prepare an itemized estimate...

Section 10-222a. - Boards to have use of funds from repayment and insurance proceeds for school materials and from payment for custodial services for use of school facilities. - Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 106, or any municipal charter...

Section 10-222b. - Board to have use of funds from the Manville property damage settlement trust. - Section 10-222b is repealed, effective July 1, 2000. (P.A. 90-122,...

Section 10-222c. - Hiring policy. Applicant's employment history; requirement to disclose and check upon. Immunity from civil and criminal liability. - (a) No local or regional board of education, governing council...

Section 10-222d. - Safe school climate plans. Definitions. School climate assessments. - (a) As used in this section, sections 10-222g to 10-222i,...

Section 10-222e. - Policy on evaluation and termination of athletic coaches. - (a) Any local or regional board of education that employs...

Section 10-222f. - College informational forums. - Each local and regional board of education may require any...

Section 10-222g. - Prevention and intervention strategy re bullying and teen dating violence. - For the purposes of section 10-222d, the term “prevention and...

Section 10-222h. - Analysis of school districts' efforts re prevention of and response to bullying in schools. School climate assessment instruments. - (a) The Department of Education shall, within available appropriations, (1)...

Section 10-222i. - State-wide safe school climate resource network. - (a) The Department of Education, in consultation with the State...

Section 10-222j. - Training re prevention, identification and response to school bullying, teen dating violence and youth suicide. - The Department of Education shall provide, within available appropriations, annual...

Section 10-222k. - District safe school climate coordinator. Safe school climate specialist. Safe school climate committee. - (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2012, and...

Section 10-222l. - Immunity of school employees, students, parents or guardians, individuals and boards of education from liability for certain actions relating to reporting, investigating and responding to school bullying and teen dating violence. - (a) No claim for damages shall be made against a...

Section 10-222m. - School security and safety plans. School security and safety committees. - (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2014, and...

Section 10-222n. - School security and safety plan standards. - (a) Not later than January 1, 2014, the Department of...

Section 10-222o. - Information re aggregate spending for education to be made available. - (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, and...

Section 10-222p. - Review of safe school climate plans by Department of Education. Approval or rejection. - (a) The Department of Education shall receive each safe school...

Section 10-222q. - Social and Emotional Learning and School Climate Advisory Collaborative. - (a) There is established a social and emotional learning and...

Section 10-222r. - Publication of plain language explanation of rights and remedies. - Not later than June 30, 2021, each local and regional...

Section 10-222s. - Provision of training materials re prevention of and intervention in discrimination and harassment against students. - Each local and regional board of education, in consultation with...

Section 10-222t. - Administration of social-emotional learning assessment. - (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2021, and...

Section 10-222u. - State-wide social-emotional support strategy. - (a) The Social Emotional Learning and School Climate Advisory Collaborative,...

Section 10-222v. - Social-emotional learning standards for grades four to twelve. - Not later than October 1, 2022, the Department of Education...

Section 10-222w. - Working group re bullying and safe school climate plans. - Not later than January 1, 2022, the Social Emotional Learning...

Section 10-222x. - Inclusion of 9-8-8 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number on student identification cards. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this...

Section 10-223. - Separate high school accounts. - Section 10-223 is repealed, effective June 3, 1996. (1949 Rev.,...

Section 10-223a. - Promotion and graduation policies. Basic skills necessary for graduation; assessment process. - (a) On or before July 1, 2000, each local and...

Section 10-223b to 10-223d. - List of schools in need of improvement; process for improving school performance. Grants for schools in need of improvement. Identification of successful programs and methods. - Sections 10-223b to 10-223d, inclusive, are repealed, effective August 15,...

Section 10-223e. - State-wide education accountability plan. State-wide performance management and support plan. Actions. Study of academic achievement. Reconstitution of boards of education. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Accountability index” means...

Section 10-223f. - Use of charter school student performance data in the calculation of accountability index scores for alliance districts. - (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2015, and...

Section 10-223g. - On-line credit recovery program. On-line learning coordinator. - A local or regional board of education for a school...

Section 10-223h. - Commissioner's network of schools. Turnaround committees. Operations and instructional audit. Turnaround plans. Reports. - (a) The Commissioner of Education shall establish, within available appropriations,...

Section 10-223i. - Contracts between boards of education and not-for-profit educational management organizations. Operations report. Enrollment policies. - (a) The local or regional board of education for a...

Section 10-223j. - School governance councils. - (a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (4) of this subsection,...

Section 10-223k. - Department of Education to publish certain plans, rankings and formulas. - The Department of Education shall annually publish and make available...

Section 10-223l. - Model school district responsibilities agreement. - (a) Not later than January 1, 2018, the Department of...

Section 10-223m. - Adoption of policy to improve completion rates of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. - Not later than July 1, 2022, each local and regional...

Section 10-223n. - Publication of completion rates of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. - Not later than July 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the...

Section 10-224. - Duties of the secretary. - The secretary of the board of education shall keep a...

Section 10-225. - Salaries of secretary and attendance officers. - The salaries and compensation of the secretary of the board...

Section 10-226. - Reports to Commissioner of Education. - Each local and regional board of education shall annually, before...

Section 10-226a. - Documentation of pupils and teachers of racial minorities and pupils eligible for free or reduced price lunches. - (a) Each local or regional board of education shall annually...

Section 10-226b. - Existence of racial imbalance. - (a) Whenever the State Board of Education finds that racial...

Section 10-226c. - Plan to correct imbalance. - (a) Any board of education receiving notification of the existence...

Section 10-226d. - Approval of plan by state board. - Upon receipt of any plan required under the provisions of...

Section 10-226e. - Regulations. - The State Board of Education shall have the authority to...

Section 10-226f. - Coordinator of intergroup relations. - The State Board of Education shall select one of its...

Section 10-226g. - Intergroup relations training for teachers. - Each regional and local board of education may, in accordance...

Section 10-226h. - Programs and methods to reduce racial, ethnic and economic isolation. - (a) A local or regional board of education for purposes...

Section 10-227. - Returns of receipts, expenditures and statistics to Commissioner of Education. Verification mandated. Penalty. - Each board of education shall cause the superintendent to make...

Section 10-228. - Free textbooks, supplies, material and equipment. - Each local and regional board of education shall purchase such...

Section 10-228a. - Free textbook loans to pupils attending nonpublic schools. - Each local and regional board of education may, at the...

Section 10-228b. - Tax credits for donation of computers to schools. - (a) The Commissioner of Revenue Services shall grant a credit...

Section 10-229. - Change of textbooks. - (a) No board of education shall change any textbooks used...

Section 10-230. - Flags in schoolrooms and schools. Policy on the reciting of the “Pledge of Allegiance”. - (a) Each local and regional board of education shall provide...

Section 10-230a. - Employment of instructors of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps programs. - Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 166 relating to professional certification,...

Section 10-230b. - Exemplary veterans education program distinction. - The State Board of Education, in consultation with the Department...

Section 10-231. - Fire drills. Crisis response drills. - (a) Each local and regional board of education shall provide...

Section 10-231a. - Pesticide applications at schools: Definitions. - As used in sections 10-231b to 10-231d, inclusive, (1) “pesticide”...

Section 10-231b. - Pesticide applications at schools: Authorized applications. Ban. Exceptions. - (a) No person, other than a pesticide applicator with supervisory...

Section 10-231c. - Pesticide applications at schools without an integrated pest management plan. Prior notice. - (a) As used in this section, “local or regional board...

Section 10-231d. - Pesticide applications at schools with an integrated pest management plan. Prior notice. - (a) As used in this section, “local or regional board...

Section 10-231e. - Maintenance of heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. - (a) For purposes of this section “Standard 62” means the...

Section 10-231f. - Indoor air quality committee. - Each local and regional board of education may establish an...

Section 10-231g. - Green cleaning program at schools: Definitions. Implementation. Notice. - (a) As used in this section, (1) “green cleaning program”...

Section 10-232. - Restrictions on employment of members of board of education. - Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act to the contrary,...

Section 10-232a. - Criminal history and child abuse and neglect registry records checks of applicants and employees of nongovernmental school operators. Termination or dismissal. Fingerprinting. Availability of information re applicant's history. - (a) As used in this section and sections 10-232b and...

Section 10-232b. - Criminal history and child abuse and neglect registry records checks of students in teacher preparation programs. Fee waiver. - (a) Each eligible school operator and nongovernmental school operator shall...

Section 10-232c. - Criminal history and child abuse and neglect registry records checks of persons who will perform service involving direct contact with students. - Each eligible school operator or nongovernmental school operator may require...

Section 10-232d. - Criminal history and child abuse and neglect registry records checks of certified school personnel. Denial of application for and revocation of certification. - (a) The State Board of Education shall submit, periodically, to...

Section 10-233. - Suspension of pupils. - Section 10-233 is repealed. (1949, S. 959d; P.A. 75-609, S....

Section 10-233a. - Definitions. - Whenever used in sections 10-233a to 10-233g, inclusive: (a) “Exclusion”...

Section 10-233b. - Removal of pupils from class. - (a) Any local or regional board of education may authorize...

Section 10-233c. - Suspension of pupils. - (a) Any local or regional board of education may authorize...

Section 10-233d. - Expulsion of pupils. - (a)(1) Any local or regional board of education, at a...

Section 10-233e. - Notice as to disciplinary policies and action. - Each local or regional board of education shall inform all...

Section 10-233f. - In-school suspension of pupils. Reassignment. - (a) Any local or regional board of education may authorize...

Section 10-233g. - Reports of principals to police authority concerning physical assaults upon school employees by students. - (a) Where there is a physical assault made by a...

Section 10-233h. - Arrested students. Reports by police, disclosure, confidentiality. Police testimony at expulsion hearings. - If any person who is at least seven years of...

Section 10-233i. - Students placed on probation by a court. - A student placed on probation by a court may return...

Section 10-233j. - Student possession and use of telecommunication devices. - (a) No student in a public school in the state...

Section 10-233k. - Notification of school officials of potentially dangerous students. Provision of educational records of children returning to school from residential centers. - (a) If the Department of Children and Families believes, in...

Section 10-233l. - Expulsion and suspension of children in preschool programs. - (a) As used in this section, “preschool program provider” means...

Section 10-233m. - Memorandum of understanding re school resource officers. - Each local or regional board of education that assigns a...

Section 10-233n. - Report re disaggregated school discipline data. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Student” means a...

Section 10-233o. - Standards re alternative educational opportunities. - Not later than August 15, 2017, the State Board of...

Section 10-234. - Expulsion of pupils. - Section 10-234 is repealed. (1949, S. 960d; 1957, P.A. 92;...

Section 10-234aa. - Definitions. - As used in this section and sections 10-234bb to 10-234dd,...

Section 10-234bb. - Contracts between boards of education and contractors re student data. Requirements. - (a) On and after July 1, 2018, a local or...

Section 10-234cc. - Requirements for operators re student data. - (a) An operator shall (1) implement and maintain security procedures...

Section 10-234dd. - Duties re unauthorized release, disclosure or acquisition of student data. - (a)(1) Upon the discovery of a breach of security that...

Section 10-234ee. - Written guidance re Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and laws relating to student data privacy. - The Department of Education, in consultation with the Commission for...

Section 10-234ff. - Uniform student data privacy terms-of-service agreement addendum. - The Commission for Educational Technology shall develop a uniform student...

Section 10-234gg. - Report re use of certain Internet web sites, online services or mobile applications without a contract. - For the school year commencing July 1, 2018, and each...

Section 10-235. - Indemnification of teachers, board members, employees and certain volunteers and students in damage suits; expenses of litigation. - (a) Each board of education shall protect and save harmless...

Section 10-235a. - Immunity from liability of internship providers. - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Internship” means supervised...

Section 10-236. - Liability insurance. - Each such board of education, board of trustees, state agency...

Section 10-236a. - Indemnification of educational personnel assaulted in the line of duty. - (a) Each board of education, the State Board of Education,...

Section 10-236b. - Physical restraint and seclusion of students by school employees. - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Life-threatening physical restraint”...

Section 10-236c. - Behavior intervention meetings for certain students. - For the school year commencing July 1, 2022, and each...

Section 10-237. - School activity funds. - (a) Any local or regional board of education may establish...

Section 10-238. - Petition for hearing on questions relating to provision of education offered by the board of education. - The board of education of any municipality, upon written petition...

Section 10-239. - Use of school facilities for other purposes. - (a) Any local or regional board of education may provide...

Section 10-239a. - Demonstration scholarship program. Short title. Legislative intent. - Sections 10-239a to 10-239h, inclusive, shall be known and may...

Section 10-239b. - Definitions. - As used in sections 10-239a to 10-239h, inclusive: (1) “Demonstration...

Section 10-239c. - Contract with federal agency for funds. - The local or regional board of education may contract with...

Section 10-239d. - Demonstration board and staff. Scholarships. - The local or regional board of education may establish a...

Section 10-239e. - Use of scholarships. Eligibility of schools. - (a) The demonstration board shall authorize the parents or legal...

Section 10-239f. - Collective bargaining by teachers. - Nothing contained in sections 10-239a to 10-239h, inclusive, shall be...

Section 10-239g. - Evaluation of quality of education and satisfaction with schools under program. - The demonstration board shall provide for a valid test for...

Section 10-239h. - Liberal construction. - The provisions of sections 10-239a to 10-239h, inclusive shall be...

Section 10-239i. - Participation in the National Assessment of Educational Progress or other national or international assessment. - Each local and regional board of education, as may be...

Section 10-239j. - Disclosure of accreditation reports. Notification requirements. - (a) Within forty-five days of receipt of a New England...

Section 10-239k. - Shared service agreements. - Any two or more boards of education may, in writing,...

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Connecticut General Statutes Title 10 - Education and Culture Chapter 170 - Boards of Education

Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10 - Education and Culture
Chapter 170 - Boards of Education