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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 171 - Town Management › Section 10-248a. - Unexpended education funds account.

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, and each fiscal year thereafter, notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any special act, municipal charter, home rule ordinance or other ordinance, the board of finance in each town having a board of finance, the board of selectmen in each town having no board of finance or the authority making appropriations for the school district for each town may deposit into a nonlapsing account any unexpended funds from the prior fiscal year from the budgeted appropriation for education for the town, provided (1) such deposited amount does not exceed two per cent of the total budgeted appropriation for education for such prior fiscal year, (2) each expenditure from such account shall be made only for educational purposes, and (3) each such expenditure shall be authorized by the local board of education for such town.
(P.A. 10-108, S. 32; P.A. 19-117, S. 285; P.A. 21-40, S. 9.)
History: P.A. 10-108 effective July 1, 2010; P.A. 19-117 replaced “2011” with “2020”, designated existing provision re amount of total budgeted appropriation for education as Subdiv. (1) and amended same to add “deposited” and replace “one per cent” with “two per cent”, and added Subdiv. (2) re expenditures from account to be made only for educational purposes and added Subdiv. (3) re expenditure to be authorized by local board of education, effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 21-40 made a technical change.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 171 - Town Management › Section 10-248b. - Agreements re provision of noneducational services.

A local board of education may enter into a written agreement with (1) the board of finance in each town or city having a board of finance, (2) the board of selectmen in each town having no board of finance, or (3) otherwise to the authority making appropriations for the school district, to authorize such board of finance, board of selectmen or such other authority making appropriations to take responsibility for the provision of any noneducational services being provided by such board of education.
(P.A. 17-68, S. 12.)
History: P.A. 17-68 effective July 1, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 171 - Town Management › Section 10-248c. - Board of education to post and submit copy of current and projected expenditures and revenues.

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, and each fiscal year thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall, on a quarterly basis, (1) post the board's current and projected expenditures and revenues on the Internet web site of the board, and (2) submit a copy of such current and projected expenditures and revenues to the legislative body of the municipality or, in a municipality where the legislative body is a town meeting, to the board of selectmen.
(P.A. 19-117, S. 290.)
History: P.A. 19-117 effective July 1, 2019.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-249. - Enumeration of children of compulsory school age in school districts and by state departments having jurisdiction over such children.

(a) The board of education of each local and regional school district shall annually determine by age the number of children of compulsory school age who reside within the jurisdiction of such school district as of January first of each year. Such determination shall be made by (1) enumeration of each such child individually or (2) any reasonable means of accounting approved by the Commissioner of Education.
(b) If any child of compulsory school age is not attending school within the jurisdiction of the board of education of a local or regional school district, the superintendent of schools of the district shall make a reasonable effort to ascertain the reason for such nonattendance. If such child is employed at labor, the superintendent of schools shall make a reasonable effort to ascertain the name and address of such child's employer or of the establishment where such child is employed. Returns shall be made to the board of education on or before the fifteenth day of May. Any state, local or other public agency shall, upon request by the superintendent of schools, provide such information as may be reasonably required for the purposes of this section.
(c) Each state department shall report periodically to the Commissioner of Education at such time and in such manner as he shall prescribe, the name and address of the most recent residence within the state for each child of compulsory school age under the jurisdiction of such department. The commissioner shall provide such information to the superintendent of schools of the local or regional school district wherein such child is indicated to have most recently resided.
(1949 Rev., S. 1546; 1957, P.A. 72, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 417, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 123, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 43, S. 1; P.A. 78-218, S. 179; P.A. 81-257, S. 4, 10.)
History: 1959 act removed fixed compensation of enumerators and provided for payment in discretion of board of education; 1965 act changed age of children to be enumerated from 18 to 21; 1971 act changed all marker dates in section, i.e. “October” to “April”,”September” to “January”, “September” to “March” and “November” to “May”, and required recording of address of employer as well as name; P.A. 78-218 substituted “local and regional school district” for “town board of education” and “school district” for “town” and replaced masculine personal pronouns with appropriate nouns; P.A. 81-257 streamlined the procedure for enumerating children of compulsory school age, eliminated appointment of an enumerator, made alternate plans for enumeration acceptable, required “reasonable effort” to determine reason for nonattendance of any child and employment information, authorized public agencies to provide information upon request of superintendent and added Subsec. (c) re reports by state departments to commissioner of education re whereabouts of children under their jurisdiction.
Cited. 152 C. 568.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-250. - Report showing number of children.

Annually, not later than June fifteenth, the superintendent of schools for each local or regional school district shall file with the Commissioner of Education a report, on a form prescribed by said commissioner, showing the number of children of compulsory school age residing within the jurisdiction of such school district determined in accordance with the provisions of section 10-249 and such other information as said commissioner requires.
(1949 Rev., S. 1547; 1957, P.A. 72, S. 2; 1971, P.A. 43, S. 2; P.A. 78-218, S. 180; P.A. 81-257, S. 5, 10.)
History: 1971 act changed deadline for report from January first to June fifteenth, substituted “report” for “sworn certificate” and required recording of children residing in town as of preceding “April” rather than “October”; P.A. 78-218 substituted “local or regional” board of education for “town” board; P.A. 81-257 clarified provisions, substituted “school district” for references to board of education and town and required filing of report with commissioner of education rather than with state board of education.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-251. - Penalty for refusing to give age of child.

Any person having control of a child under twenty-one years of age who wilfully refuses to give the name and age of such child, and such information concerning the school attendance of such child as this chapter requires, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 1548; 1957, P.A. 72, S. 3; February, 1965, P.A. 123, S. 2; P.A. 81-257, S. 6, 10.)
History: 1965 act changed age of children in question from 18 to 21; P.A. 81-257 deleted reference to enumerator as recipient of information in keeping with amendment to Sec. 10-249 abolishing enumerators as canvassers of information.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-252. - Children in state receiving homes. Employment of teachers.

Section 10-252 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 1549; 1955, S. 965d; P.A. 75-420, S. 4, 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 521, 610; P.A. 78-218, S. 181; P.A. 80-483, S. 43, 186; P.A. 81-257, S. 7, 10; P.A. 84-255, S. 20, 21.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-253a. - Reentry coordinators. Transfer of records of children in juvenile justice facilities. Exception for smaller districts.

Not later than August 1, 2021, the Department of Education shall assemble a list of persons who may perform the function of reentry coordinator. The department shall distribute the list to the Departments of Correction and Children and Families and the Court Support Services Division of the Judicial Branch and any parent or other person interested in receiving such list. The Department of Education shall review and update such list annually. The Department of Education shall post such list on the department's Internet web site. Local and regional boards of education shall use a reentry coordinator from the list to obtain records of children in juvenile justice facilities and assist in transfer of the records to the facility. Any local or regional board of education for a district in which fewer than six thousand students are enrolled may designate an employee to perform the functions of a reentry coordinator.
(P.A. 21-174, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 21-174 effective July 12, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-255. - Waiver of forfeiture.

Section 10-255 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 1552; P.A. 77-614, S. 302, 610; P.A. 78-218, S. 183; 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 84-255, S. 20, 21.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-256. - Misapplication of school money.

If any money appropriated to the use of schools is applied by a town or school district to any other purpose, such town or school district shall forfeit the amount thereof to the state and the Comptroller shall sue for the same on behalf of the state, to be applied, when recovered, to the use of schools.
(1949 Rev., S. 1553; P.A. 10-32, S. 29.)
History: P.A. 10-32 made a technical change, effective May 10, 2010.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-257a to 10-257g. - Definitions. Minimum salaries for teachers; grants; calculations; contract negotiations. Salary aid grants, calculations; aid eligibility factor. General education aid grants; calculations. Eligibility. Teacher-pupil ratio aid grants; calculations. Grant applications; distribution of funds; grant adjustments.

Sections 10-257a to 10-257g, inclusive, are repealed, effective July 1, 1996.
(May Sp. Sess. P.A. 86-1, S. 1–5, 7, 8, 58; P.A. 87-2, S. 1–7, 15–17, 21; 87-228, S. 1, 2; 87-250, S. 7, 8, 11; 87-325, S. 1–4; 87-464, S. 6–8; 87-488, S. 1–7, 9; P.A. 88-171, S. 1, 2, 5; 88-274, S. 1, 2; P.A. 96-244, S. 62, 63.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-257h. - Data to be transmitted.

(a) The executive secretary of the Teachers' Retirement Board shall, not later than October 1, 1987, and October first of every succeeding year, transmit to the Commissioner of Education a certified copy of the following data for each teacher reported by school districts to the Teachers' Retirement Board on the annual school staff reports due September 15, 1985, and September fifteenth of every succeeding year: (1) Social Security number; (2) school district code number; (3) educational preparation; (4) full-time equivalent status; (5) school level; (6) primary assignment code; (7) annual salary; and (8) the contract step at which the teacher is paid.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary, regional school district #19 shall, for teachers employed by such district who are not participants in the teachers' retirement system pursuant to chapter 167a, furnish to the Teachers' Retirement Board in the same manner and at the same time the same information it furnishes to said board pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 10-183n for teachers who participate in the system.
(May Sp. Sess. P.A. 86-1, S. 9, 58; P.A. 87-488, S. 8, 9; P.A. 02-89, S. 15.)
History: P.A. 87-488 added Subsec. (d) to require regional school district #19 to transmit certain data to the teachers' retirement board; P.A. 02-89 deleted as obsolete former Subsec. (a) requiring the supervising agent of each school district to provide the executive secretary with a preliminary report of certain data for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1987, deleted as obsolete former Subsec. (c) requiring the executive secretary to transmit to the Commissioner of Education a certified copy of certain data not later than July 1, 1986, and redesignated existing Subsecs. (b) and (d) as Subsecs. (a) and (b).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-258. - Trust funds.

If any town has received a permanent fund for the support of a school or schools, the town treasurer shall have charge of it and keep a separate account thereof; and the income of such fund shall be held subject to the order of the board of education, which shall apply it for the benefit of the school or schools within or nearest to the limits of the district formerly existing, in such manner as to carry out, as nearly as possible, the intent of the grantor of such fund.
(1949 Rev., S. 1555.)
See Sec. 10-247 re management of permanent funds.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-260a. - Auditing of state grants for public education. Review of procedures manual.

(a) In accomplishment of their duties as set forth in section 2-90 and in accordance with the authority granted under chapter 111 the Auditors of Public Accounts shall, as often as they deem necessary, examine the records and accounts of any town or local or regional board of education in connection with any grant made by any state agency pursuant to any section of the general statutes or any act of the General Assembly. Their findings shall be reported as required in section 2-90.
(b) The Department of Education shall submit to the Auditors of Public Accounts for review any proposed changes in the procedures manual that would alter the method of calculating educational equalization grants.
(P.A. 76-274, S. 1; P.A. 78-218, S. 184; P.A. 82-275, S. 1, 2; P.A. 03-76, S. 19.)
History: P.A. 78-218 substituted “local” for “town” boards of education; P.A. 82-275 added Subsec. (b) which requires review of procedures manual; P.A. 03-76 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective June 3, 2003.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-262 to 10-262e. - Amounts payable to towns per pupil in average daily membership; additional payment for increase in enrollment. Pro rata distribution of federal funds among towns. Educational equalization grants; calculations; effect of changes in data elements. Equalized net grand lists for fiscal years ending in 1978 and 1979. Grants to be expended for school purposes only; minimum expenditure requirement.

Sections 10-262 to 10-262e, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 1578; June, 1955, S. 973d; 1961, P.A. 571, S. 2–4; June, 1963, P.A. 1, S. 1, 2; February, 1965, P.A. 361, S. 10; 1967, P.A. 580, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 604, S. 1, 2; June, 1971, S.A. 1, S. 13; 1972, S.A. 53, S. 11; P.A. 74-158, S. 1, 2; P.A. 75-341, S. 3–5; P.A. 76-387, S. 1–3, 5; P.A. 77-478, S. 2, 5; 77-540, S. 2, 4; 77-579, S. 2; 77-614, S. 302, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; 78-330, S. 1–3; 78-352, S. 5; P.A. 79-128, S. 2, 3, 35, 36; P.A. 80-404, S. 3, 4; P.A. 81-31, S. 1–3; 81-413, S. 2–4, 6; P.A. 82-91, S. 2, 3, 38; P.A. 83-363, S. 2, 5; 83-587, S. 14, 96; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-4, S. 2, 3, 8; P.A. 84-273, S. 2, 3; 84-474, S. 1, 3; 84-490, S. 1, 2; P.A. 85-550, S. 1, 3; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 86-1, S. 48, 58; P.A. 87-391, S. 1, 2; P.A. 88-136, S. 12, 13, 37; 88-358, S. 8, 9; P.A. 89-124, S. 12, 13; P.A. 93-353, S. 51, 52.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-262g. - Base aid.

Section 10-262g is repealed, effective July 1, 1998.
(P.A. 88-358, S. 5, 9; P.A. 98-252, S. 79, 80; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 105, 121.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-262k. - Grants for compensatory education programs.

Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the board of education which has jurisdiction over the schools in any town (1) with a total population, as defined in subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of section 10-261, greater than twenty thousand, and (2) in which the grant mastery percentage, as defined in subdivision (12) of section 10-262f, is greater than twenty per cent may annually apply to the Commissioner of Education, on such forms as the commissioner may prescribe, to receive not more than two per cent of the town's grant entitlement pursuant to section 10-262h for the subsequent fiscal year for compensatory education programs. At the time of application, the board of education shall notify the board of finance in each town or city having a board of finance, the board of selectmen in each town having no board of finance or otherwise the authority making appropriations for the school district of the application. Upon submission of a timely application to the commissioner, the commissioner shall deduct such amount from the payment made to the town in October of such subsequent fiscal year pursuant to section 10-262i, and the board of education shall receive a grant in such amount.
(P.A. 90-225, S. 8, 10; P.A. 92-262, S. 28, 42; P.A. 96-244, S. 55, 63; P.A. 97-318, S. 3, 12; P.A. 03-174, S. 7.)
History: P.A. 92-262 deleted provision exempting payments from provisions of repealed Sec. 10-14o; P.A. 96-244 decreased the population level for eligibility from greater than 26,000 to greater than 20,000 and made the initial year for applications under the new criteria “1997”, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 97-318 made a technical change, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 03-174 made technical changes, effective July 1, 2003.
Cited. 228 C. 699.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-262l. - Grants for improvement in student achievement.

(a) Each local and regional board of education, within available appropriations, shall be eligible to receive a state grant of funds as a reward for demonstrating improvement in district-wide student achievement on the mastery examinations, under subsection (b) of section 10-14n. Each local and regional board of education shall receive a proportional share of the amount appropriated for purposes of this section based upon the improvement in its mastery goal improvement count, as defined in subdivision (31) of section 10-262f. The minimum grant for each eligible town shall be five hundred dollars. Each local and regional board of education shall expend grant funds pursuant to this section on behalf of its schools in a manner consistent with each school's relative contribution to the level of mastery goal achievement within the district.
(b) Each town which receives funds pursuant to this section shall make such funds available to its local or regional board of education in supplement to any other local appropriation, other state or federal grant or other revenue to which the local or regional board of education is entitled.
(P.A. 95-226, S. 6, 30; P.A. 97-318, S. 5, 12; P.A. 05-13, S. 4; P.A. 13-207, S. 9.)
History: P.A. 95-226 effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 97-318 made a technical change, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 05-13 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective May 4, 2005; P.A. 13-207 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “state-wide mastery examinations under subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of section 10-14n” with “mastery examinations, under subsection (b) of section 10-14n”, effective July 1, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-262m. - Grants for high level of foster care placements in a school district.

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and each fiscal year thereafter, each school district in which two per cent or more of the average daily membership, as defined in section 10-261, of the school district are children age five to eighteen, inclusive, in foster care placements or certified relative foster care placements in such school district on October first of the fiscal year, as determined by the Department of Children and Families shall receive a grant, within available appropriations, from the Department of Education in an amount equal to one hundred thousand dollars. Such grant shall be in addition to funds received by such school district pursuant to subsection (b) of section 10-76g.
(P.A. 98-168, S. 10, 26; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1, S. 10, 51.)
History: P.A. 98-168 effective July 1, 1998; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1 required foster care placement grants to be within available appropriations, effective July 1, 1999.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-262o. - Grant program for teacher technology training programs.

The Department of Education shall establish, within available appropriations, a competitive grant program to fund innovative teacher training programs on the integration of technology into the public school curriculum in order to improve student learning.
(P.A. 00-187, S. 43, 75; P.A. 14-65, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 00-187 effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 14-65 deleted provision re standards developed pursuant to Sec. 4d-85, effective July 1, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-262p. - Computer technology competency standards for students. Report on the status of educational technology in the public schools.

(a) The State Board of Education shall adopt grade kindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive, computer technology competency standards for students by July 1, 2001. Information on the standards shall be included in the report required pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.
(b) On or before July 1, 2001, and biennially thereafter, the Commissioner of Education shall report, in accordance with section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education on the status of educational technology in the public schools. The report shall include information on the level of funding needed to assure that the technology needs in the areas of infrastructure improvements, educator professional development, curriculum development and student competency development are met.
(P.A. 00-187, S. 44, 75.)
History: P.A. 00-187 effective July 1, 2000.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-262q. - Centralized web-based site for educators.

The Department of Education shall develop and maintain, within available appropriations, a centralized web-based site for use by educators in posting and sharing suggested grade-specific or topic-specific lesson plans, curriculum resources and technology resource opportunities, as well as best practices on the use of technology in instruction.
(P.A. 00-187, S. 46, 75.)
History: P.A. 00-187 effective July 1, 2000.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-262r. - Computer-assisted writing, instruction and testing. Pilot program.

Section 10-262r is repealed, effective April 1, 2009.
(P.A. 05-245, S. 39; P.A. 06-196, S. 65; P.A. 08-170, S. 16; P.A. 09-2, S. 27.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-262s. - Authority of Commissioner of Education to transfer funds appropriated for Sheff settlement to certain grant programs.

The Commissioner of Education may, to assist the state in meeting its obligations pursuant to the decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, as determined by the Commissioner of Education, transfer funds appropriated for the Sheff settlement to the following: (1) Grants for interdistrict cooperative programs pursuant to section 10-74d, (2) grants for state charter schools pursuant to section 10-66ee, (3) grants for the interdistrict public school attendance program pursuant to section 10-266aa, (4) grants for interdistrict magnet schools pursuant to section 10-264l, and (5) to the Technical Education and Career System for programming.
(P.A. 11-48, S. 195; P.A. 14-217, S. 96; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 316; P.A. 17-237, S. 79; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 409.)
History: P.A. 11-48 effective June 13, 2011; P.A. 14-217 added “as extended, or the goals of the 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al.”, effective July 1, 2014; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 added “as extended”, effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 17-237 amended Subdiv. (5) by replacing “technical high schools” with “the Technical Education and Career System”, effective July 1, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 replaced “the goals of the 2008 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., as extended, or the goals of the 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., as extended” with “its obligations pursuant to the decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, as determined by the Commissioner of Education”, effective June 23, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-262t. - Grants to support plans that implement cost-saving strategies.

The Commissioner of Education may provide, within available appropriations, grants for technical assistance and regional cooperation to support any local or regional board of education that develops a plan to implement significant cost-saving strategies while simultaneously maintaining or improving the quality of education in the district.
(P.A. 12-116, S. 11; P.A. 13-31, S. 22.)
History: P.A. 12-116 effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-31 made a technical change, effective May 28, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-263. - Withholding of payments; adjustments for underpayments and overpayments of grants.

(a) The State Board of Education may withhold from the total sum which is paid from the State Treasury an amount which it determines to be equitable from any town or school district which it finds pursuant to section 10-4b to have failed to maintain its schools according to law.
(b) Unless otherwise provided by law, if the Commissioner of Education determines, based upon a final report of actual revenue and expenditures of a school district, that there has been an underpayment or overpayment in a grant made by the State Board of Education, the commissioner shall calculate the amount of the underpayment or overpayment and shall adjust the amount of the grant payment for either of the two fiscal years next following the fiscal year in which such underpayment or overpayment was made. The amount of the adjustment shall be equal to the amount of the underpayment or overpayment.
(1949 Rev., S. 1579; June, 1955, S. 974d; 1967, P.A. 166, S. 4; 1969, P.A. 531, S. 2; P.A. 78-218, S. 186; P.A. 79-128, S. 8, 36; P.A. 87-398, S. 1, 2.)
History: 1967 act changed deadline for application from August fifteenth to August first; 1969 act deleted provision re deductions of amounts by which towns fail to maintain minimum program; P.A. 78-218 deleted reference to applications made by supervising agents and substituted “local or regional board of education” for “town or school district”; P.A. 79-128 deleted provisions re applications and scheduled payments, leaving only provision for withholding certain funds from payments to boards who fail to maintain schools according to law; P.A. 87-398 added new Subsec. (b) to provide for adjustments for underpayments and overpayments of grants and designated prior provisions as Subsec. (a).
See Sec. 10-227 re forfeit of part of grant payment as penalty for violations of procedure in making returns of receipts, expenditures, etc. to Department of Education.
Cited. 187 C. 187; 195 C. 24; 228 C. 699.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-263a and 10-263b. - Payment to towns not on uniform fiscal year. Amounts in average daily membership payable to the Department of Correction.

Sections 10-263a and 10-263b are repealed.
(P.A. 75-1, S. 1, 2; 75-481, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-81, S. 1, 2; P.A. 79-128, S. 35, 36; 79-631, S. 94, 95, 111; P.A. 89-124, S. 12, 13.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-263d. - Transitional school district phase-out grants. Reduced grants for first year of eligibility for transitional school district grants.

(a) Commencing with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, if a school district that received a transitional school district grant pursuant to section 10-263c for the prior fiscal year is no longer eligible to receive such a grant, such school district shall receive a transitional school district phase-out grant for each of the three fiscal years following the fiscal year such school district received its final transitional school district grant. The amount of such phase-out grants shall be determined in accordance with this subsection. (1) For the first fiscal year following the fiscal year the town received its final transitional school district grant, in an amount equal to seventy-five per cent of such final grant. (2) For the second fiscal year following the fiscal year the town received its final transitional school district grant, in an amount equal to fifty per cent of such final grant. (3) For the third fiscal year following the fiscal year the town received its final transitional school district grant, in an amount equal to twenty-five per cent of such final grant.
(b) Commencing with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, if a school district that did not receive a grant pursuant to section 10-276a for the prior fiscal year and was not eligible to receive a transitional school district grant pursuant to section 10-263c for the prior fiscal year becomes eligible to receive such a transitional school district grant, the amount of the grant such town receives for the first year of such eligibility shall be reduced by fifty per cent.
(P.A. 99-224, S. 7, 9.)
History: P.A. 99-224 effective July 1, 1999.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-263e. - Safe learning grant program.

(a) The Department of Education shall establish, within available appropriations, a competitive safe learning grant program to assist school districts in (1) developing a school environment where children learn in safety without fear of physical or verbal harm or intimidation, (2) activities that encourage respect for each student, (3) decreasing early youth aggression, (4) establishing student conflict and intervention policies and strategies, (5) eliminating bullying behaviors among students, (6) extending safe school environment programs to extracurricular activities, (7) after school programs, and (8) the development of crisis and violence prevention policies and strategies which make school environments safe. Each local and regional board of education may apply for a grant at such time and in such manner as the Commissioner of Education prescribes.
(b) The department may accept private donations for purposes of the program provided such donations shall in no way limit the scope of program grants pursuant to this section.
(c) Any unexpended funds appropriated for purposes of this section shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year but shall be available for expenditure during the next fiscal year for similar programs.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1, S. 32, 54; P.A. 03-76, S. 33.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1 effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 03-76 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective June 3, 2003.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264a to 10-264d. - Promotion of educational quality and diversity: Definitions. Local assessment. Regional plans. Withholding of funds.

Sections 10-264a to 10-264d, inclusive, are repealed, effective July 1, 1998.
(P.A. 93-263, S. 1–4, 14; P.A. 95-226, S. 19, 30; P.A. 98-252, S. 79, 80; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 105, 121.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264e. - Grant applications.

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1996, and each fiscal year thereafter, at such time and in such manner as the commissioner prescribes, local and regional boards of education, individually or cooperatively, pursuant to section 10-158a, or through a regional educational service center may apply to the commissioner for competitive grants pursuant to sections 10-264h, 10-264i and 10-264l.
(P.A. 93-263, S. 5, 14; P.A. 95-226, S. 21, 30; P.A. 98-252, S. 19, 80.)
History: P.A. 93-263 effective June 28, 1993; P.A. 95-226 deleted former Subsec. (b) re role of the General Assembly in the awarding of grants, removed Subsec. (a) designator, deleted reference to grants pursuant to Sec. 10-264f, added a reference to grants pursuant to Sec. 10-264
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and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 98-252 made a technical change, effective July 1, 1998.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264f. - Grants for single districts or one or more schools within a district.

(a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1996, and each fiscal year thereafter, a local or regional board of education, may, in accordance with this section, apply to the commissioner, pursuant to section 10-264e, for a grant for the school district or one or more schools within the school district. Such grants shall be limited to school districts or schools in which the average mastery percentage, as defined in subdivision (3) of section 10-262f, is equal to or exceeds fifteen per cent and shall be based on a local plan to improve the quality of school performance and student outcomes. Applicants for such grants may also request technical assistance and waivers of specific state statutory and regulatory mandates which may be granted by the commissioner for good cause.
(b) The commissioner may approve, in accordance with section 10-264e, programs pursuant to this section if the commissioner finds the program is likely to increase student performance as measured by mastery examination results, pursuant to section 10-14n, or enhance student awareness of diversity. Programs which may be eligible for grants pursuant to this section include, but are not limited to, early childhood education and extended-day kindergarten, parent involvement in the education of children and in the schools, reduction in class size, tutoring and mentoring of students, after-school academic programs, lengthening the instructional school day and lengthening the instructional school year.
(P.A. 93-263, S. 7, 14; P.A. 13-207, S. 17.)
History: P.A. 93-263 effective June 28, 1993; P.A. 13-207 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “state-wide mastery examination” with “mastery examination”, adding reference to Sec. 10-14n and making a technical change, effective July 1, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264g. - Grants for two or more districts.

Section 10-264g is repealed, effective July 1, 1995.
(P.A. 93-263, S. 8, 14; P.A. 95-226, S. 28, 30.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264j. - No time or regional restrictions on development and implementation of interdistrict programs.

Nothing in subsection (a) of section 10-74d or in sections 10-264e to 10-264i, inclusive, shall be deemed to prohibit one or more local or regional boards of education from developing and implementing interdistrict programs at any time.
(P.A. 93-263, S. 11, 14; P.A. 98-252, S. 22, 80.)
History: P.A. 93-263 effective June 28, 1993; P.A. 98-252 made technical changes, effective July 1, 1998.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264k. - Regions.

Section 10-264k is repealed, effective July 1, 1998.
(P.A. 93-263, S. 12, 14; P.A. 98-252, S. 79, 80; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 105, 121.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264m. - Creation of additional interdistrict magnet school programs with special emphasis on information technology curriculum.

The Department of Education shall encourage the creation of additional interdistrict magnet school programs with special emphasis on information technology curriculum.
(P.A. 01-193, S. 8, 9.)
History: P.A. 01-193 effective July 1, 2001.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264n. - Collaborative planning for the establishment of additional interdistrict magnet schools in the Sheff region.

The Commissioner of Education shall consult with (1) the Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges, (2) the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System, (3) the boards of trustees for higher education institutions licensed and accredited by the Board of Regents for Higher Education or Office of Higher Education, or (4) the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut and may consult with any not-for-profit corporation approved by the Commissioner of Education to initiate collaborative planning for establishing additional interdistrict magnet schools in the Sheff region, as defined in subsection (q) of section 10-266aa.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 72; P.A. 12-156, S. 59; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 120; P.A. 13-118, S. 15.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 effective October 6, 2007; P.A. 12-156 replaced “any regional community-technical college” with “the Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges”, replaced reference to Board of Higher Education with reference to State Board of Education re accreditation and added Subdiv. designators (1) to (4), effective June 15, 2012; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 amended Subdiv. (3) to add reference to Board of Regents for Higher Education re accreditation, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-118 replaced “State Board of Education” with “Office of Higher Education” in Subdiv. (3), effective July 1, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264p. - Sliding tuition scale for preschool programs offered at certain magnet schools.

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Social Services, shall develop a sliding tuition scale based on family income to be used in the calculation of the amount that a regional educational service center operating an interdistrict magnet school offering a preschool program may charge for tuition to the parent or guardian of a child enrolled in such preschool program pursuant to section 10-264l or 10-264o.
(P.A. 13-247, S. 123; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 321.)
History: P.A. 13-247 effective June 19, 2013; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 deleted “and each fiscal year thereafter”, effective July 1, 2015.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264q. - Eligibility of certain magnet schools not in compliance with racial minority enrollment requirements to continue to receive operating grants.

Notwithstanding subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of section 10-264l, an interdistrict magnet school program that (1) does not assist the state in meeting its obligations pursuant to the decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, as determined by the Commissioner of Education, and (2) is not in compliance with the enrollment requirements for students of racial minorities, pursuant to section 10-264l, following the submission of student information data of such interdistrict magnet school program to the state-wide public school information system, pursuant to section 10-10a, on or before October 1, 2019, shall remain eligible for an interdistrict magnet school operating grant pursuant to section 10-264l for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2020, and June 30, 2021, if such interdistrict magnet school program submits a compliance plan to the Commissioner of Education and the commissioner approves such plan.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 322; P.A. 19-139, S. 4; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 413.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 19-139 replaced “2015” with “2019” and added “for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2020, and June 30, 2021” in Subdiv. (2), effective July 1, 2019; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 replaced “the goals of the 2008 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., as extended, or the goals of the 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., as extended, as determined by the Commissioner of Education” with “its obligations pursuant to the decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, as determined by the Commissioner of Education”, effective June 23, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264r. - Reduced-isolation setting standards.

Not later than July 1, 2017, the Commissioner of Education shall develop reduced-isolation setting standards for interdistrict magnet school programs that shall serve as the enrollment requirements for purposes of section 10-264l. Such standards shall (1) define the term “reduced-isolation student” for purposes of the standards, (2) establish a requirement for the minimum percentage of reduced-isolation students that can be enrolled in an interdistrict magnet school program, provided such minimum percentage is not less than twenty per cent of the total school enrollment, (3) allow an interdistrict magnet school program to have a total school enrollment of reduced-isolation students that is not more than one per cent below the minimum percentage established by the commissioner, provided the commissioner approves a plan that is designed to bring the number of reduced-isolation students of such interdistrict magnet school program into compliance with the minimum percentage, and (4) for the school year commencing July 1, 2018, authorize the commissioner to establish on or before May 1, 2018, an alternative reduced-isolation student enrollment percentage for an interdistrict magnet school program located in the Sheff region, as defined in subsection (k) of section 10-264l, provided the commissioner (A) determines that such alternative (i) increases opportunities for students who are residents of Hartford to access an educational setting with reduced racial isolation or other categories of diversity, including, but not limited to, geography, socioeconomic status, special education, English language learners and academic achievement, (ii) complies with the decision of Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, and (B) approves a plan for such interdistrict magnet school program that is designed to bring the number of reduced-isolation students of such interdistrict magnet school program into compliance with such alternative or the minimum percentage described in subdivision (2) of this section. Not later than May 1, 2018, the commissioner shall submit a report on each alternative reduced-isolation student enrollment percentage established, pursuant to subdivision (4) of this section, for an interdistrict magnet school program located in the Sheff region 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. The reduced-isolation setting standards for interdistrict magnet school programs shall not be deemed to be regulations, as defined in section 4-166.
(P.A. 17-172, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 17-172 effective July 1, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 10 - Education and Culture › Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation › Section 10-264s. - Applicability of education statutes to certain interdistrict magnet school operators. Recognized and considered a local education agency for purposes of state and federal law.

(a) All state laws and regulations applicable to the operation of public schools, including provisions for eligibility for state aid and grants, shall apply to any interdistrict magnet school operator that is (1) the board of governors for an independent institution of higher education, as defined in subsection (a) of section 10a-173, or the equivalent of such a board, on behalf of the independent institution of higher education, or (2) any other third-party not-for-profit corporation approved by the Commissioner of Education. Such interdistrict magnet operators shall receive, in accordance with federal law and regulations, any federal funds available for the education of any pupils attending public schools.
(b) Any interdistrict magnet school operator that is (1) the board of governors for an independent institution of higher education, as defined in subsection (a) of section 10a-173, or the equivalent of such a board, on behalf of the independent institution of higher education, or (2) any other third-party not-for-profit corporation approved by the commissioner, shall to the extent authorized under federal law be recognized as and considered a local educational agency, as defined in 20 USC 7801, as amended from time to time, for purposes of this title and federal law.
(Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-8, S. 8; P.A. 21-40, S. 10.)
History: Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-8 effective October 2, 2020; P.A. 21-40 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “commissioner” with “Commissioner of Education”.