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Demonstration Scholarship Program Authorization Act

Connecticut · 10 · §§ 10-218 to 10-239k · 183 sections

Overview

Connecticut's local and regional boards of education are governed by this act, which sets out how boards organize themselves — electing officers, administering the oath of office, holding meetings, filling vacancies, and training newly elected members — and defines the duties and rulemaking authority they exercise over the schools in their charge. Much of it operates by requiring boards to adopt written policies and procedures on specified subjects, including student transportation and bus safety, student health needs such as blood glucose testing and cartridge injectors, the transfer and disclosure of student records, grade point average calculation, school uniforms, lunch periods and recess, food offerings, playground and swimming pool safety, and the treatment of recruiters, while also imposing requirements such as criminal history and child abuse registry checks for school employees, in-service training and professional development, and the conditions students must satisfy to receive a high school diploma. It further creates standing bodies and programs, among them professional development and evaluation committees, a cooperating teacher program, and panels, institutes, and district-level training directed at early reading success, together with assessment and independent evaluation of those efforts. One thing worth flagging: the act's name points to a scholarship demonstration program, but nothing in its sections concerns scholarships — they are entirely board-of-education governance. That's likely a mislabeled record on the source side rather than something the write-up can reconcile.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 15 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 562 F.2d 838 - East Hartford Education Ass'n v. Board of Education of East Hartford

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