Any local or regional board of education may establish at any level of instruction a bilingual and bicultural program of study involving a culture in which a language other than English is predominantly spoken, provided the purpose of such program shall be to enable children to become proficient in English. A private school may, with the approval of the State Board of Education, establish such a program of bilingual education.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-17a
Establishment of bilingual and bicultural program
(1971, P.A. 432, S. 2; P.A. 78-218, S. 14.) History: P.A. 78-218 specified “local or regional” boards of education.
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