Connecticut § 10-233n - Report re disaggregated school discipline data.

§ 10-233n. Report re disaggregated school discipline data.

Sec. 10-233n. Report re disaggregated school discipline data. (a) As used in this section:

(1) “Student” means a person who is enrolled in a school under the jurisdiction of a local or regional board of education;

(2) “School property” means the real property comprising a public elementary or secondary school under the jurisdiction of a local or regional board of education;

(3) “School day” means the hours in which a school is open to students for regular classroom instruction, intramural or interscholastic athletics, or extracurricular activities;

(4) “School-sponsored event” means any school activity conducted on or off school property regardless of when such school activity is conducted; and

(5) “School-based arrest” means an arrest of a student for conduct of such student on school property or at a school-sponsored event.

(b) The Department of Education shall annually examine data relating to in-school suspensions, out-of-school suspensions, expulsions and school-based arrests that has been submitted as part of the strategic school profile report pursuant to section 10-220, and shall disaggregate such data by school, race, ethnicity, gender, age, students with disabilities, multilingual learners, as defined in section 10-76kk, students who are eligible for free or reduced priced lunch pursuant to federal law and regulations, and type of offense for which the school-based arrests were made and the number of arrests made annually at each school within the school district. The department shall annually submit to the State Board of Education, and post on its Internet web site, a report regarding the examination and disaggregation of such data, any strategies developed pursuant to subsection (g) of section 10-220 and the results of such strategies.

(P.A. 15-168, S. 2; P.A. 23-150, S. 31; 23-167, S. 77.)

History: P.A. 15-168 effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 23-150 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “English language” with “multilingual”, effective July 1, 2023; P.A. 23-167 amended Subsec. (b) by requiring that strategies developed pursuant to Sec. 10-220(g) and results be included in the report and making conforming changes, effective January 1, 2024.