Connecticut Code — 10
Browse 1,085 sections in division 10 of the Connecticut code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 10-1. Appointment of board members.
- § 10-2. Officers. Secretaries. Agents. Employees. “Secretary to the State Board of Education” deemed to mean “Commissioner of Education”.
- § 10-2a. Student Advisory Council on Education.
- § 10-3. Prosecuting agents to enforce school laws.
- § 10-3a. Department of Education. Commissioner. Organization of bureaus, divisions and other units. Regulations. Advisory boards.
- § 10-3b. Annual report to the General Assembly re State Education Resource Center.
- § 10-3c. Director of reading initiatives.
- § 10-3d. Designated employee responsible for providing information and assistance re dyslexia.
- § 10-3e. Designated employee responsible for providing information and assistance re gifted and talented students.
- § 10-3f. Employment of curriculum coordinator responsible for providing assistance and curriculum materials to boards of education.
- § 10-4. Duties of board. Reports. Comprehensive plan for elementary, secondary, vocational, career and adult education.
- § 10-4a. Educational interests of state identified.
- § 10-4b. Complaint alleging failure or inability of board of education to implement educational interests of state. Investigation; inquiry; hearing. Remedial process. Regulations.
- § 10-4c. State board to monitor state grants to local and regional boards.
- § 10-4d. Advisory committee on educational equity.
- § 10-4e. Coordination and planning for educational technology.
- § 10-4f. State Board of Education. Copyright authority.
- § 10-4g. Parental and community involvement in schools; model program; school-based teams.
- § 10-4h. Grant program for telecommunications projects.
- § 10-4l. l . Advisory committee on school district reporting requirements.
- § 10-4m. Commission on Educational Excellence.
- § 10-4n. Committee on Educational Equity and Excellence.
- § 10-4o. (Formerly Sec. 17-605). Family resource center program. Guidelines for programs. Study. Grants.
- § 10-4p. Implementation plan to achieve resource equity and equality of opportunity. Assessment. Reports.
- § 10-4q. Grants to alliance districts for curricula, training and related textbooks and materials.
- § 10-4r. Recommendations re definition of attendance region for Technical Education and Career System.
- § 10-4s. Reports and evaluations re school governance councils and reconstituted schools.
- § 10-4t. Reports and evaluations re school governance councils.
- § 10-4u. Parent Trust Fund.
- § 10-4v. Innovation waivers. Procedural requirements. Legislative review.
- § 10-4w. Standards re remote learning. Authorization of remote learning.
- § 10-5. State high school diploma; “honors diploma”; Connecticut State Seal of Biliteracy. Payment of fees; exceptions.
- § 10-5a. Educational technology and high school graduation requirements.
- § 10-5b. Department of Education web site.
- § 10-5c. Academic advancement program.
- § 10-5d. Technical assistance for implementation of high school graduation requirements. Report.
- § 10-5e. Development or approval of end of the school year examinations.
- § 10-5f. Department to offer training program to newly elected members of boards of education.
- § 10-7e. Occupational schools in existence on October 1, 1979.
- § 10-7v. Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety and Media Literacy Advisory Council.
- § 10-8. Licensing of private schools for trade instruction and special occupational training.
- § 10-8a. Adoption of regulations to exempt educational institutions from licensing requirements by Department of Children and Families.
- § 10-8b. Teacher shortages.
- § 10-8c. Accelerated cross endorsement. Former teacher certification. Certain early childhood endorsements to be added as cross endorsements.
- § 10-9. Bequests for educational purposes.
- § 10-9a. Misuse of state funds or resources. Civil action by department.
- § 10-10. Acquisition of federal surplus property.
- § 10-10a. Public school information system. Definitions. Development and implementation. Types of data collected. Access to data maintained under system.
- § 10-10b. Inclusion of state-assigned student identifier on all official student documents.
- § 10-10c. Uniform system of accounting. Chart of accounts. Audit.
- § 10-10d. Regulations re fiscal accountability data collection report.
- § 10-10e. State-wide information technology platform for real-time sharing of educational records.
- § 10-10f. Minimum budget requirement calculation worksheet.
- § 10-10g. *(See end of section for amended version of subsection (c) and effective date.) Compilation and provision of information re services and resources for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
- § 10-10h. Document re resources for students and families.
- § 10-10i. Report on student data.
- § 10-11. Receipt and expenditure of federal funds and funds from private or municipal sources.
- § 10-11a. Allocation to meet matching requirements of federal acts.
- § 10-11b. Commissioner's submission of application for waiver of federal law. Legislative review. Public hearing. Procedural requirements.
- § 10-11c. Distribution of Title IX compliance toolkit to boards of education.
- § 10-12. State Board of Vocational Education.
- § 10-13. Appointment of physicians for technical education and career schools.
- § 10-13a. Fees at technical institutes.
- § 10-14. Expenses of the board.
- § 10-14a. Sec
- § 10-15. Towns to maintain schools.
- § 10-15a. Discontinuance of kindergarten programs restricted.
- § 10-15b. Access of parent or guardian to student's records. Inspection and subpoena of school or student records.
- § 10-15c. Discrimination in public schools prohibited. School attendance by five-year-olds.
- § 10-15d. Applicability of education statutes to the Unified School Districts and the Technical Education and Career System.
- § 10-15e. Applicability of education statutes to incorporated or endowed high schools or academies.
- § 10-15f. Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
- § 10-15g. Exemplary schools.
- § 10-15h. Pilot program to incorporate common core state standards.
- § 10-15i. Connecticut Achievement and Resource Equity in Schools Commission.
- § 10-15j. Connecticut Remote Learning Commission.
- § 10-15k. Plan re state-wide remote learning school.
- § 10-15l. l . Comprehensive audit re provision of remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic.
- § 10-15m. Purple Star School Program.
- § 10-15n. Family and community engagement in education council.
- § 10-16. Length of school year.
- § 10-16a. Silent meditation.
- § 10-16b. *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Prescribed courses of study.
- § 10-16c. State board to develop family life education curriculum guides.
- § 10-16d. Family life education programs not mandatory.
- § 10-16e. Students not required to participate in family life education programs.
- § 10-16f. Family life programs to supplement required curriculum.
- § 10-16l. l . Establishment of graduation date.
- § 10-16m. Extended-day kindergarten. Grants.
- § 10-16n. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Head Start and Early Head Start grant program. Grant allocation. Advisory committee.
- § 10-16o. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Development of network of school readiness programs.
- § 10-16p. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Definitions. Lead agency for school readiness; standards. State financial assistance; eligibility. Unexpended funds.
- § 10-16q. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) School readiness program requirements. Per child cost limitation. Sliding fee scale. Waiver from schedule requirements.
- § 10-16r. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Local school readiness councils; duties. Regional school readiness councils.
- § 10-16s. Interagency agreement on school readiness. Assessment measures.
- § 10-16t. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Participation by five-year-olds in school readiness programs.
- § 10-16u. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Grants for school readiness programs in transitional school districts.
- § 10-16v. After school committee established. Appointment of members. Reports and recommendations. Acceptance of funding. Reports to General Assembly.
- § 10-16w. Early learning and development standards; technical assistance and training.
- § 10-16x. After school program grant.
- § 10-16y. Office of Early Childhood Planning, Outreach and Coordination. Duties.
- § 10-16z. Early Childhood Cabinet. Members. Duties.
- § 10-16aa. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Competitive district grant account.
- § 10-16bb. Sec
- § 10-16mm. Task force to address academic achievement gaps. Master plan. Progress reports.
- § 10-16nn. Interagency Council for Ending the Achievement Gap.
- § 10-16oo. Model curricula and frameworks in mathematics for schools and districts identified as having academic achievement gaps.
- § 10-16pp. Plan to provide instruction in financial literacy. Funds for implementation. Report.
- § 10-16qq. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction.
- § 10-16rr. Preschool program accreditation.
- § 10-16ss. African-American and black studies and Puerto Rican and Latino studies instruction.
- § 10-16tt. Development of black and Latino studies course. Audit to ensure course being offered. Technical assistance.
- § 10-16uu. Black and Latino studies course to be offered in grades nine to twelve.
- § 10-16vv. Native American studies instruction.
- § 10-16ww. Asian American and Pacific Islander studies instruction.
- § 10-17. English language to be medium of instruction. Exception.
- § 10-17a. Establishment of bilingual and bicultural program.
- § 10-17d. Application for and receipt of federal funds.
- § 10-17e. Definitions.
- § 10-17f. Duties of boards of education regarding bilingual education programs. Development of state English mastery standard. Regulations.
- § 10-17g. Grants for the provision of programs of bilingual education. Annual evaluation report.
- § 10-17h. Planning, development or operation of initially required bilingual program.
- § 10-17i. Encouragement of increased language instruction. Proficiency in language recognized on permanent record.
- § 10-17j. Request to commissioner to use certified English as a second language teacher in place of bilingual education teacher in cases of teacher shortage. Teacher exchange programs.
- § 10-17k. Standards re extension of bilingual education program for eligible student.
- § 10-17l. l . Department to provide information re research-based practices to involve parents in language acquisition process and native language accommodations for mastery examination.
- § 10-17m. Report re academic progress of bilingual education students and quality of bilingual education programs.
- § 10-17n. English language learner pilot program.
- § 10-17o. Bill of rights for parents or guardians of students who are multilingual leaners.
- § 10-18. Courses in United States history, government and duties and responsibilities of citizenship.
- § 10-18a. Contents of textbooks and other general instructional materials.
- § 10-18b. Development of guides for firearm safety programs.
- § 10-18c. Firearm safety programs. Exemption from participation.
- § 10-18d. Animal dissection. Students to be excused from participation or observation.
- § 10-18e. Uniform standards and curriculum for career technical education programs.
- § 10-18f. Holocaust and genocide education and awareness curriculum.
- § 10-18g. Instuctional materials re Safe Haven Act.
- § 10-19. Teaching about alcohol, nicotine or tobacco, drugs and acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Training of personnel.
- § 10-19a. Superintendent to designate substance abuse prevention team. Training of team members.
- § 10-19b. Advisory councils on drug abuse prevention.
- § 10-19c. Program for careers in information technology.
- § 10-19d. High school mathematics and science challenge pilot program.
- § 10-19e. “Future Scholars” pilot matching grant program.
- § 10-19m. (Formerly Sec. 17a-39). Youth service bureaus. Report. Regulations.
- § 10-19n. (Formerly Sec. 17a-40). State aid for establishment and expansion of youth service bureaus.
- § 10-19o. (Formerly Sec. 17a-40a). Youth service bureau grant program.
- § 10-19p. (Formerly Sec. 17a-41). Assistance to youth service bureaus.
- § 10-19q. Enhancement grant program for youth service bureaus.
- § 10-19r. Department of Children and Families. Youth service bureau grant program and enhancement grant program. Successor department.
- § 10-19s. Memorandum of understanding between boards of education and youth service bureaus re sharing of educational records.
- § 10-20. Comptroller may withhold school money.
- § 10-20a. Connecticut career certificate programs.
- § 10-20b. Connecticut career certificate. Compliance with state and federal laws and regulations. Student and employer requirements. Compensation.
- § 10-20c. Issuance of Connecticut career certification. Credit for program.
- § 10-20d. Grants for support of Connecticut career certificate programs.
- § 10-20e. Awarding of grants.
- § 10-20f. Retention of appropriated funds, when.
- § 10-21. Vocational guidance.
- § 10-21a. Accredited courses offered by employers.
- § 10-21b. Programs offered jointly by boards of education and business firms; neighborhood assistance.
- § 10-21c. Donation of teaching services by private sector specialists; neighborhood assistance.
- § 10-21f. Career ladder programs.
- § 10-21g. “Generation Next” pilot program.
- § 10-21h. Preliteracy course for bachelor's degree program with concentration in early childhood education.
- § 10-21i. Red Ribbon PASS Program.
- § 10-21j. Connecticut Apprenticeship and Education Committee.
- § 10-21k. Pipeline for Connecticut's Future program.
- § 10-21l. l . Computer science education account.
- § 10-21m. Best practices for establishing pathways programs under Pipeline for Connecticut's Future program.
- § 10-21n. Aviation or aerospace apprenticeship training program.
- § 10-21o. Model program for paraeducator training for high school students.
- § 10-21p. Preapprenticeship grant program.
- § 10-21q. Plan for promotion of health care professions as career options and job shadowing and internship experiences in health care fields.
- § 10-21r. Department to issue request for proposals re establishment of public-private partnerships or enhancement of pathways in technology early college high school programs.
- § 10-24. Sec
- § 10-24a. (Formerly Sec. 14-157). State grants for motor vehicle operation and highway safety course.
- § 10-24b. Fee when course offered outside regular school hours.
- § 10-24c. Grants for motor vehicle operation and highway safety courses in private secondary schools.
- § 10-24d. Sec
- § 10-24e. Regulations concerning content of safe driving course.
- § 10-24f. Play-based learning.
- § 10-25. Secondary education for veterans.
- § 10-25a. Strategic master plan for public education in the state. Planning Commission for Education established. Duties. Goals. Benchmarks. Report.
- § 10-25b. Model curriculum for grades kindergarten to eight.
- § 10-26. Education grant to child of deceased or disabled veteran or missing in action member of armed forces.
- § 10-27. International studies, exchange programs. Advisory committee.
- § 10-27a. International education programs, recognition of schools and partnership programs.
- § 10-28. Sec
- § 10-28a. Advice and assistance to school library media centers.
- § 10-28b. School volunteers; information and assistance about; state-wide coordinator; state plan.
- § 10-29. Library service center in Middlesex County.
- § 10-29a. Certain days, weeks and months to be proclaimed by Governor. Distribution and number of proclamations.
- § 10-29b. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission.
- § 10-29c. Certain days, weeks and months to be designated for celebration of ethnic, cultural or heritage groups.
- § 10-33. Tuition in towns in which no high school is maintained.
- § 10-34. Approval by state board of incorporated or endowed high school or academy.
- § 10-35. Notice of discontinuance of high school service to nonresidents. Cooperative arrangements and school building projects for school accommodations.
- § 10-36. Agreements with Gilbert School and Woodstock Academy.
- § 10-38a. Maintenance of postsecondary schools.
- § 10-38j. Recommendations for expansion of higher educational opportunities.
- § 10-39. Temporary regional school study committee.
- § 10-40. Appointment of committee members.
- § 10-41. Officers and records of committee.
- § 10-42. Expenses of committee.
- § 10-43. Reports to towns. Dissolution of committee.
- § 10-44. Disposition of committee records.
- § 10-45. Referendum on establishment of regional districts or addition or withdrawal of grades.
- § 10-46. Regional board of education.
- § 10-46a. Transfer of responsibility to regional board.
- § 10-47. Powers of regional board. Meetings.
- § 10-47a. Withdrawal of grades.
- § 10-47b. Addition or withdrawal of grades.
- § 10-47c. Amendment of plan.
- § 10-49a. Site in town outside district.
- § 10-50. Admission of adjacent town to district.
- § 10-51. Fiscal year. Budget. Payments by member towns; adjustments to payments. Investment of funds. Temporary borrowing. Reserve funds.
- § 10-51a. Petition to determine deficiency in town payment.
- § 10-51b. Reserve fund for employee sick leave and severance benefits.
- § 10-51c. Finance committee.
- § 10-52. Adult education.
- § 10-53. Application of education statutes.
- § 10-54. Transportation grants.
- § 10-55. Pupils to attend regional school.
- § 10-56. Corporate powers. Bond issues.
- § 10-58a. Default of district in payment on bonds or notes. Withholding of state aid.
- § 10-59. Fiscal year. Budget.
- § 10-60. Borrowing in addition to bonds.
- § 10-60a. Refunding bonds.
- § 10-63a. Vote for withdrawal of town or dissolution of district.
- § 10-63b. Committee to study issues relating to withdrawal or dissolution.
- § 10-63c. Report of committee.
- § 10-63f. Obligations not affected by action.
- § 10-63g. Withdrawal and dissolution restricted.
- § 10-63h. Applicability to existing regional school districts.
- § 10-63i. Regional school district established before June 24, 1969.
- § 10-63j. “Representation”, defined.
- § 10-63k. Regional school reapportionment committee.
- § 10-63l. l . Powers of regional school reapportionment committee.
- § 10-63m. Approval or rejection of plan recommended by regional school reapportionment committee.
- § 10-63n. Referendum for regional school reapportionment. Establishment of plan.
- § 10-63o. Execution of reapportionment plan.
- § 10-63p. Time limits for reapportionment. Right to compel compliance.
- § 10-63q. Notification as to constitutionality of regional board representation following decennial census.
- § 10-63r. Establishment of new plan of representation permitted after initial reapportionment.
- § 10-63s. Duties of Commissioner of Education. Actions of regional board to be by weighted vote.
- § 10-63t. Applicability of reapportionment requirements.
- § 10-64. Establishment of regional agricultural science and technology education centers. Moratorium; exception. Tuition and transportation.
- § 10-65. Grants for constructing and operating agricultural science and technology education centers. Tuition charges.
- § 10-65a. Plan to increase racial and ethnic diversity.
- § 10-65b. Provision of student's nonagricultural academic courses; shared-time arrangements.
- § 10-66. Regulations.
- § 10-66a. Establishment.
- § 10-66b. Operation and management. Board.
- § 10-66c. Powers of board of center.
- § 10-66d. Participation by boards of education and nonpublic schools.
- § 10-66e. Payment of expenses.
- § 10-66f. Participation in programs of other centers. Joint action by centers.
- § 10-66g. Budget and projected revenues statement. Annual audit.
- § 10-66h. Annual evaluation of programs and services.
- § 10-66i. Applicability of statutes. Receipt of payments.
- § 10-66j. Regulations. Annual grants, proportional reduction. Support of regional efforts to recruit and retain minority educators.
- § 10-66k. Revocation of participation; effect on pledge for security of bonds. Existence of center and repayment of obligations.
- § 10-66l. l . Boards of education may join center within or outside area.
- § 10-66m. Other cooperative agreements not affected.
- § 10-66n. Grants for identifying and disseminating information re exemplary classroom projects.
- § 10-66o. Provision of goods and services to boards of education.
- § 10-66p. Allocation and expenditure of funds for professional development services, technical assistance and evaluation activities.
- § 10-66q. Uniform regional school calendar.
- § 10-66r. Regional model for provision of special education services re transportation, training and therapeutic services.
- § 10-66s. Survey re special education services and programs.
- § 10-66t. Survey re English language learner services and bilingual education programs.
- § 10-66u. Regional trauma coordinators. Responsibilities.
- § 10-66v. Trauma-informed care training program.
- § 10-66aa. Charter schools: Definitions.
- § 10-66bb. Application process and requirements. Initial certificate of approval for charter. Charter renewal. Probation. Revocation. Enrollment lottery; exceptions.
- § 10-66cc. Strategic school profile report. Report on school's progress.
- § 10-66dd. School professionals and persons holding charter school educator permits employed in charter schools. Charter schools subject to laws governing public schools; exceptions; waivers. Participation in the state teacher retirement system.
- § 10-66ee. Charter school funding. Special education students. Transportation. Contracts. Cooperative arrangements.
- § 10-66ff. Powers. Liability limited. Participation in Short-Term Investment Fund.
- § 10-66gg. Report to General Assembly.
- § 10-66hh. Program to assist charter schools with capital expenses.
- § 10-66ii. Report on best practices employed by charter schools.
- § 10-66jj. Bond authorization for program to assist charter schools with capital expenses.
- § 10-66kk. Governing council. Internet posting of meeting schedules, agendas and minutes. Membership.
- § 10-66ll. ll . Random audits of charter schools.
- § 10-66mm. Regulations concerning management of charter schools.
- § 10-66nn. Grant to assist with start-up costs for new local charter school. Eligibility. Applications. Unexpended funds. Guidelines.
- § 10-66oo. Governing council. Training re responsibilities and best practices. Adoption of policies re antinepotism and conflict of interests.
- § 10-66pp. Annual submission of certified audit statement and Internal Revenue Service form 990.
- § 10-66qq. Internet web site posting re reports, certified audit statements and forms.
- § 10-66rr. Child abuse and neglect registry and criminal history records checks of governing council members, charter management organization members and contractors.
- § 10-66ss. Amendment to charter.
- § 10-66tt. Contract for whole school management services with a charter management organization.
- § 10-66uu. Applicability of Freedom of Information Act to records and files related to administration of charter school by charter management organization.
- § 10-67. Definitions.
- § 10-68. Appointment of director of adult education.
- § 10-69. Adult education.
- § 10-69a. Adult education programs in New Haven and Bridgeport authorized to provide additional instructional services.
- § 10-70. Rooms and personnel.
- § 10-71. State grants for adult education programs.