Each school district shall be a body corporate and shall have power to sue and be sued; to purchase, receive, hold and convey real and personal property for school purposes; to build, equip, purchase and rent schoolhouses and make major repairs thereto and to supply them with fuel, furniture and other appendages and accommodations; to establish and maintain schools of different grades; to establish and maintain a school library; to lay taxes and to borrow money for the purposes herein set forth; to make agreements and regulations for the establishing and conducting of schools not inconsistent with the regulations of the town having jurisdiction of the schools in such district; and to employ teachers, in accordance with the provisions of section 10-151 , and pay their salaries. When such board appoints a superintendent, such superintendent may, with the approval of such board, employ the teachers.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-241
Powers of school districts
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 902 F. Supp. 2d 243 - Watrous v. Town of Preston (2012)
Most recently applied in 189 F. Supp. 3d 345 - Rogers v. City of New Britain (May 2016)
(1949 Rev., S. 1498, 1507; 1953, S. 955d.)
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Connecticut General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Connecticut statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.