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CT Gen Stat § 10-76gg (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76gg - Information on race, ethnicity and disability category of children requiring special education.

 (a) Each local and regional board of education shall provide to the Department of Education such information on race, ethnicity and disability category of children requiring special education and related services as the department requires for purposes of reports pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 USC 1400 et seq.(b) The department shall examine such information to determine if significant disproportionality based on race is occurring in the state with respect to (1) the identification of children requiring special education and related services, including the identification of children requiring such education and related services due to a particular impairment, and (2) the placement in particular settings of such children. If the department determines that such disproportionality is occurring, the department shall review and, if appropriate, revise special education identification and placement policies, procedures and practices to ensure that such policies, procedures and practices comply with the requirements of applicable federal law and regulations.(P.A. 98-168, S. 7, 26.)History: P.A. 98-168 effective July 1, 1998.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76hh (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76hh - Prohibition on deduction of Medicaid reimbursement in determination of grant payments.

 On and after July 1, 2006, and for each succeeding fiscal year thereafter, in determining costs eligible for reimbursement pursuant to subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection (e) of section 10-76d, subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 10-76g and subsection (b) of section 10-76g, Medicaid reimbursement received by any local or regional board of education from the Department of Social Services for students of such boards of education shall not be deducted from grants paid in accordance with said sections.(P.A. 06-188, S. 10.)History: P.A. 06-188 effective July 1, 2006.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76ii (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76ii - Provision of applied behavior analysis services.

 On and after July 1, 2012, a local or regional board of education that is responsible for providing special education and related services to a child, pursuant to section 10-76a, shall provide applied behavior analysis services to any such child with autism spectrum disorder if the individualized education program or plan pursuant to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires such services. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the inclusion of applied behavior analysis services in an individualized education program or plan pursuant to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.(P.A. 10-175, S. 2; P.A. 12-173, S. 7; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 195.)History: P.A. 10-175 effective July 1, 2010; P.A. 12-173 replaced “individualized education plan” with “individualized education program” in Subsecs. (a) and (c), effective June 15, 2012; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 deleted Subsec. (a) designator, deleted provisions re persons to whom services are to be provided, teacher or paraprofessional implementing program or plan and definition of applied behavior analysis, deleted former Subsec. (b), and deleted Subsec. (c) designator, effective July 1, 2018.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76j - Five-year plan for special education.

 Section 10-76j is repealed, effective June 3, 1996.(1972, P.A. 115, S. 1-3; P.A. 78-218, S. 70; P.A. 96-161, S. 12, 13.)
CT Gen Stat § 10-76jj (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76jj - Language and communication plans for children identified as deaf or hard of hearing.

 The individualized education program or plan pursuant to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended from time to time, for any child identified as deaf or hard of hearing shall include a language and communication plan. In the case of a child with an individualized education program, the language and communication plan shall be developed by the planning and placement team for such child. Such language and communication plan shall address: (1) The primary language or mode of communication chosen for the child, (2) opportunities for direct communication with peers and professional personnel in the primary language or mode of communication for the child, (3) educational options available to the child, (4) the qualifications of teachers and other professional personnel administering such plan for the child, including such teacher's or personnel's proficiency in the primary language or mode of communication for the child, (5) the accessibility of academic instruction, school services and extracurricular activities to the child, (6) assistive devices and services for the child, (7) communication and physical environment accommodations for the child, and (8) an emergency communication plan that includes procedures for alerting the child of an emergency situation and ensuring that the specific needs of the child are met during the emergency situation.(P.A. 12-173, S. 11; P.A. 17-202, S. 17; P.A. 19-184, S. 3.)History: P.A. 12-173 effective June 15, 2012; P.A. 17-202 replaced “hearing impaired” with “hard of hearing”; P.A. 19-184 added “or plan pursuant to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended from time to time,” and added “In the case of a child with an individualized education program, the language and communication plan shall be”, and added Subdiv. (8) re emergency communication plan, effective July 1, 2019.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76kk (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76kk - Disproportionate or inappropriate identification of minority students or English language learners requiring special education. Report. Study.

 (a) Any local or regional board of education identified by the Department of Education that disproportionately and inappropriately identifies (1) minority students, or (2) English language learners as requiring special education services because such students have a reading deficiency in contravention of the provisions of subparagraph (A) of subdivision (4) of subsection (a) of section 10-76ff shall annually submit a report to the department on the plan adopted by such board that reduces the misidentification of such minority students or English language learners by improving reading assessments and interventions for students in kindergarten to grade three, inclusive.(b) The Department of Education shall study the plans and strategies used by a local or regional board of education that demonstrate improvement in the reduction of the misidentification of minority students or English language learners requiring special education under this section. Such study shall examine the association between improvements in teacher training in the science of reading and the reduction in misidentification of students requiring special education services.(c) For purposes of this section, “minority students” means those whose race is defined as other than white, or whose ethnicity is defined as Hispanic or Latino by the federal Office of Management and Budget for use by the Bureau of Census of the United States Department of Commerce; and “English language learners” means those students reported as English language learners by the local or regional board of education for such students to the Department of Education.(P.A. 12-116, S. 90; P.A. 13-193, S. 1; 13-245, S. 10.)History: P.A. 12-116 effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-193 applied provisions to English language learners, amended Subsec. (a) by designating existing provision re minority students as Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (2) re English language learners and amended Subsec. (c) by adding definition of “English language learners”, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-245 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “correlation” with “association”, effective July 1, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76l - Annual evaluation of special education programs.

 Section 10-76l is repealed.(P.A. 75-521, S. 1, 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 302, 610; P.A. 78-218, S. 72; P.A. 81-420, S. 3, 4.)
CT Gen Stat § 10-76ll (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76ll - Bill of rights for parents of children receiving special education services.

 (a) As used in this section, “parent” means the parent or guardian of a child requiring special education or the surrogate parent appointed pursuant to section 10-94g or, in the case of a pupil who is an emancipated minor or eighteen years of age or older, the pupil.(b) On or before July 1, 2015, the State Board of Education shall draft a written bill of rights for parents of children receiving special education services to guarantee that the rights of such parents and children are adequately safeguarded and protected during the provision of special education and related services under this chapter. Such bill of rights shall inform parents of: (1) The right to request consideration of the provision of transition services for a child receiving special education services who is eighteen to twenty-one, inclusive, years of age, (2) the right to receive transition resources and materials from the department and the local or regional board of education responsible for such child, (3) the requirement that the local or regional board of education responsible for such child shall create a student success plan for each student enrolled in a public school, beginning in grade six, pursuant to subsection (j) of section 10-221a, and (4) the right of such child to receive realistic and specific postgraduation goals as part of such child's individualized education program.(c) For the school year commencing July 1, 2015, and each school year thereafter, the Department of Education shall annually distribute to local and regional boards of education the written bill of rights for parents of children receiving special education services, which shall be provided to parents, at a planning and placement team meeting for a child receiving special education services in grades six to twelve, inclusive.(P.A. 15-209, S. 3.)History: P.A. 15-209 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76m (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76m - Auditing of claims for special education assistance.

 Claims by local and regional boards of education for payment pursuant to section 10-76g shall be audited annually by certified public accountants to be retained by the State Board of Education, and certified copies of such audits shall be provided by said board to the state Auditors of Public Accounts.(P.A. 75-521, S. 2, 6; P.A. 78-218, S. 73; P.A. 79-128, S. 20, 36.)History: P.A. 78-218 substituted “local” for “town” boards of education; P.A. 79-128 substituted “payment” for “reimbursement”.Cited. 179 C. 694; 187 C. 187; 195 C. 24; 228 C. 699; 229 C. 1.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76mm (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76mm - Development of individualized education program form.

 (a) The Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the Individualized Education Program Advisory Council established pursuant to section 10-76nn, shall develop a new individualized education program form that is easier for practitioners to use and easier for parents and students to understand. Such individualized education program form shall include a brief description of, and contact information for, the parent training and information center for Connecticut established pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 USC 1400 et seq., as amended from time to time, and the Bureau of Special Education within the Department of Education in a conspicuous place on the first page of the individualized education program form using at least twelve-point Times New Roman font.(b) Not later than January 1, 2017, the commissioner shall submit the new individualized education program form developed pursuant to this section to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a.(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 267.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76n (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76n - Special Education Resource Center.

 The State Education Resource Center, established pursuant to section 10-357a, shall maintain the Special Education Resource Center, with federal funds granted to the state for the maintenance of said center under the provisions of the federal Education for the Handicapped Act, for purposes consistent with the provisions of said act as it may from time to time be amended. The Commissioner of Education is authorized to accept any federal funds allotted to the state for such purposes and shall administer such funds in accordance with federal law.(P.A. 75-115; P.A. 77-614, S. 302, 610; P.A. 05-245, S. 23; P.A. 14-212, S. 12.)History: P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of education for secretary of the state board of education, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 05-245 designated existing language as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re the state education resource center, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 14-212 deleted Subsec. (a) designator, replaced “State Board of Education shall continue to” with “State Education Resource Center, established pursuant to section 10-357a, shall” and deleted former Subsec. (b) re Special Education Resource Center may be conducted by State Education Resource Center as part of its program of activities, effective June 13, 2014.Cited. 179 C. 694; 228 C. 699; 229 C. 1.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76o (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76o - Special education at the Gilbert School, Norwich Free Academy and Woodstock Academy.

 The boards of trustees of the Gilbert School, Norwich Free Academy and Woodstock Academy shall provide for their students special education programs required to be provided by local and regional school districts in accordance with sections 10-76d to 10-76k, inclusive, and may charge any sending town for the costs of any such special education provided to a student for whose education such sending town is responsible and the sending town shall be eligible to apply for state payment for such costs under section 10-76g.(P.A. 77-556; P.A. 79-128, S. 21, 36; P.A. 82-472, S. 30, 183; P.A. 94-245, S. 11, 46.)History: P.A. 79-128 substituted “payment” for “reimbursement”; P.A. 82-472 changed “Edwin O. Smith” to “E. O. Smith”; P.A. 94-245 deleted obsolete language re E. O. Smith School and made technical changes, effective June 2, 1994.Cited. 179 C. 694; 187 C. 187; 195 C. 24; 228 C. 699; 229 C. 1.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76p (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76p - Reimbursement where state agency makes private placement.

 Section 10-76p is repealed.(P.A. 78-186, S. 1, 2; P.A. 79-128, S. 22, 36; P.A. 80-473, S. 2, 3; P.A. 81-420, S. 2, 4; 81-432, S. 9, 11.)
CT Gen Stat § 10-76pp (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76pp - Use of digital individualized education program form software by school districts.

 (a) The Department of Education shall provide a digital individualized education program form software at no cost to local and regional boards of education and the Technical Education and Career System in accordance with section 10-76oo. Such digital individualized education program form software shall permit local and regional boards of education and the Technical Education and Career System to create and submit a complete digital copy of a student's individualized education program and related documents to (1) the department for purposes of conducting a remote audit, and (2) a local or regional board of education or the Technical Education and Career System in which such student has transferred to.(b) A local or regional board of education and the Technical Education and Career System shall use the digital individualized education program form software when such software is provided by the department, except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section.(c) Nothing in this section shall affect or impair any agreement entered into between a local or regional board of education or the Technical Education and Career System and a software company for purposes of creating and sharing digital copies of a student's individualized education program and related documents prior to the department providing a digital individualized education program form software to such local or regional board of education or the Technical Education and Career System pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. When any such agreement terminates or expires, the local or regional board of education or the Technical Education and Career System, as applicable, shall use the digital individualized education program form software provided by the department.(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 270; P.A. 17-237, S. 56; P.A. 18-139, S. 2.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 17-237 replaced “technical high school system” with “Technical Education and Career System”, effective July 1, 2017; P.A. 18-139 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective June 11, 2018.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76q (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76q - Special education at technical education and career schools.

 (a) The State Board of Education, in accordance with regulations adopted by said board, shall: (1) Provide the professional services necessary to identify, in accordance with section 10-76a, children requiring special education who are enrolled at a technical education and career school; (2) identify each such child; (3) determine the appropriateness of the technical education and career school for the educational needs of each such child; (4) provide an appropriate educational program for each such child; (5) maintain a record thereof; and (6) annually evaluate the progress and accomplishments of special education programs provided by the Technical Education and Career System.(b) Where it is deemed appropriate that a child enrolled in a technical education and career school receive special education, the parents or guardian of such child shall have a right to the hearing and appeal process as provided for in section 10-76h.(c) If a planning and placement team determines that a student requires special education services which preclude such student's participation in the vocational education program offered by a technical education and career school, the student shall be referred to the board of education in the town in which the student resides for the development of an individualized educational program and such board of education shall be responsible for the implementation and financing of such program.(P.A. 78-259, S. 1, 2; P.A. 99-281, S. 4, 6; P.A. 06-18, S. 5; P.A. 12-116, S. 87; P.A. 17-237, S. 54.)History: P.A. 99-281 added Subsec. (c) re determination that special education services required by a student preclude participation in vocational-technical school program, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 06-18 amended Subsec. (a)(4) by replacing “suitable” with “appropriate” and making conforming changes, effective July 1, 2006; pursuant to P.A. 12-116, “regional vocational-technical schools” and “regional vocational-technical school” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “technical high schools” and “technical high school”, respectively, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 17-237 replaced references to technical high school with references to technical education and career school and amended Subsec. (a)(6) to replace “at state technical high schools” with “provided by the Technical Education and Career System”, effective July 1, 2017.Cited. 179 C. 694; 228 C. 699; 229 C. 1.
CT Gen Stat § 10-76r (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76r - Grant payment for certain special education placements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1983.

 Section 10-76r is repealed.(P.A. 82-311, S. 3, 4; P.A. 91-303, S. 21, 22.)
CT Gen Stat § 10-76s (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76s - Special education study committee.

 Section 10-76s is repealed.(P.A. 82-409, S. 1, 5; P.A. 89-30, S. 1, 2; P.A. 91-18; P.A. 92-262, S. 41, 42.)
CT Gen Stat § 10-76t (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 10 - Education and Culture|Chapter 164 - Educational Opportunities|Section 10-76t - Definitions re primary mental health program.

 As used in sections 10-76u to 10-76x, inclusive, “department” means the Department of Education and “mental health professionals” include guidance counselors, school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, school nurses and child mental health specialists in community mental health centers and child guidance clinics.(P.A. 84-518, S. 1, 7; P.A. 03-76, S. 12; P.A. 18-15, S. 3.)History: P.A. 03-76 made a technical change, effective June 3, 2003; P.A. 18-15 redefined mental health professionals to include school counselors, effective July 1, 2018.Cited. 228 C. 699; 229 C. 1.