Sec. 10-262h. Equalization aid grants.
Sec. 10-262u. Alliance districts.
Sec. 10-262v. Publication of alliance district improvement plans.
Sec. 10-264r. Reduced-isolation setting standards.
Sec. 10-264u. Submission of enrollment numbers for certain programs by May twentieth.
Sec. 10-265r. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning system grant program.
Sec. 10-265s. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning system pipeline training pilot program.
Sec. 10-265t. Bond issue for school air quality improvement grants.
Sec. 10-266m. Transportation grants.
Sec. 10-266p. Priority school district grant program.
Sec. 10-266aa. State-wide interdistrict public school attendance program.
Sec. 10-253. School privileges for children in certain placements, nonresident children, children in temporary shelters, homeless children and children in juvenile residential centers. Liaison to facilitate transitions between school districts and juvenile and criminal justice systems. (a) Children placed out by the Commissioner of Children and Families or by other agencies or persons, including offices of a government of a federally recognized Native American tribe, private child-caring or child-placing agencies licensed by the Department of Children and Families, and eligible residents of facilities operated by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services or by the Department of Public Health who are eighteen to twenty-one years of age or, for children requiring special education, when such child is graduated from high school or at the end of the school year during which such child reaches age twenty-two, whichever occurs first, shall be entitled to all free school privileges of the school district where they then reside as a result of such placement, except as provided in subdivision (4) of subsection (e) of section 10-76d. Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section and subdivision (4) of subsection (e) of section 10-76d, payment for such education shall be made by the board of education of the school district under whose jurisdiction such child would otherwise be attending school where such a school district is identified.
(b) The board of education of the school district under whose jurisdiction a child would otherwise be attending school shall be financially responsible for the reasonable costs of education for a child placed out by the Commissioner of Children and Families or by other agencies, including, but not limited to, offices of a government of a federally recognized Native American tribe, in a private residential facility when such child requires educational services other than special education services. Such financial responsibility shall be the lesser of one hundred per cent of the costs of such education or the average per pupil educational costs of such board of education for the prior fiscal year, determined in accordance with subsection (a) of section 10-76f. Any costs in excess of the board's basic contribution shall be paid by the State Board of Education on a current basis. The costs for services other than educational shall be paid by the state agency which placed the child. Application for the grant to be paid by the state for costs in excess of the local or regional board of education's basic contribution shall be made in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (5) of subsection (e) of section 10-76d. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2004, to June 30, 2007, inclusive, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, and each fiscal year thereafter, the amount of the grants payable to local or regional boards of education in accordance with this subsection shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of subsections (d) and (e) of section 10-76g if the total of such grants in such year exceeds the amount appropriated for the purposes of this subsection for such year.
(c) No board of education shall be required to provide school accommodations for any child whose legal residence is in another state unless the board has entered into an agreement concerning the provision of educational services and programs with the state or local educational agency of such state responsible for educating the child, the facility where the child is placed or the parent or guardian placing such child, and provided that a bond, in a sum equal to the tuition payable for such child, issued by a surety company authorized to do business in this state and conditioned upon the payment of tuition at the rate established by the board, shall be filed with the treasurer of the school district in which such child is attending school by the parent or guardian or other person or organization in control of such child.
(d) Children residing with relatives or nonrelatives, when it is the intention of such relatives or nonrelatives and of the children or their parents or guardians that such residence is to be permanent, provided without pay and not for the sole purpose of obtaining school accommodations, and, for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1981, and each fiscal year thereafter, children not requiring special education who are residing in any facility or home as a result of a placement by a public agency, including, but not limited to, offices of a government of a federally recognized Native American tribe, other than a local or regional board of education, and except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, shall be entitled to all free school privileges accorded to resident children of the school district in which they then reside. A local or regional board of education may require documentation from the parent or guardian, the relative or nonrelative, emancipated minor or pupil eighteen years of age or older that the residence is to be permanent, provided without pay and not for the sole purpose of obtaining school accommodations provided by the school district. Such documentation may include affidavits, provided that prior to any request for documentation of a child's residency from the child's parent or guardian, relative or nonrelative, or emancipated minor or pupil eighteen years of age or older, the board of education shall provide the parent or guardian, relative or nonrelative, emancipated minor or pupil eighteen years of age or older with a written statement specifying the basis upon which the board has reason to believe that such child, emancipated minor or pupil eighteen years of age or older is not entitled to school accommodations.
(e) (1) For purposes of this subsection:
(A) “Temporary shelters” means facilities which provide emergency shelter for a specified, limited period of time, and
(B) “Educational costs” means the reasonable costs of providing regular or, except as otherwise provided, special education, but in no event shall such costs exceed the average per pupil cost for regular education students or the actual cost of providing special education for special education students.
(2) Children in temporary shelters shall be entitled to free school privileges from either the school district in which the shelter is located or the school district in which the child would otherwise reside, if not for the need for temporary shelter. Upon notification from the school district in which the temporary shelter is located, the school district in which the child would otherwise reside, if identified, shall either pay tuition to the school district in which the temporary shelter is located for the child to attend school in that district or shall continue to provide educational services, including transportation, to such child. If the school district where the child would otherwise reside cannot be identified, the school district in which the temporary shelter is located shall be financially responsible for the educational costs for such child, except that in the case of a child who requires special education and related services and is placed by the Department of Children and Families in a temporary shelter on or after July 1, 1995, the school district in which the child resided immediately prior to such placement or the Department of Children and Families shall be responsible for the cost of such special education and related services, to the extent such board or department is responsible for such costs under subparagraph (B) of subdivision (2) of subsection (e) of section 10-76d. If the school district where the child would otherwise reside declines to provide free school privileges, the school district where the temporary shelter is located shall provide free school privileges and may recover tuition from the school district where the child would otherwise reside. In the case of children requiring special education who have been placed in out-of-district programs by either a board of education or state agency, the school district in which the child would otherwise reside shall continue to be responsible for the child's education until such time as a new residence is established, notwithstanding the fact that the child or child's family resides in a temporary shelter.
(f) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, educational services shall be provided by each local and regional board of education to homeless children and youths in accordance with the provisions of 42 USC 11431, et seq., as amended from time to time. If a homeless child or youth is denied school accommodations by a local or regional board of education on the basis of residency, such homeless child or youth shall be entitled to a hearing conducted pursuant to section 10-186. An unaccompanied youth, as described in 42 USC 11434a, as amended from time to time, shall be entitled to knowledge of and have access to all educational, medical or similar records in the cumulative record of such unaccompanied youth maintained by a local or regional board of education.
(g) (1) For purposes of this subsection, “juvenile residential center” means a juvenile residential center operated by, or under contract with, the Judicial Department.
(2) The local or regional board of education for the school district in which a juvenile residential center is located shall be responsible for the provision of general education and special education and related services to children detained in such center. The provision of general education and special education and related services shall be in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws concerning the provision of educational services. Such board may provide such educational services directly or may contract with public or private educational service providers for the provision of such services. Tuition may be charged to the local or regional board of education under whose jurisdiction the child would otherwise be attending school for the provision of general education and special education and related services. Responsibility for the provision of educational services to the child shall begin on the date of the child's placement in the juvenile residential center and financial responsibility for the provision of such services shall begin upon the receipt by the child of such services.
(3) The local or regional board of education under whose jurisdiction the child would otherwise be attending school or, if no such board can be identified, the local or regional board of education for the school district in which the juvenile residential center is located shall be financially responsible for the tuition charged for the provision of educational services to the child in such juvenile residential center. The State Board of Education shall pay, on a current basis, any costs in excess of such local or regional board of education's prior year's average per pupil costs. If the local or regional board of education under whose jurisdiction the child would otherwise be attending school cannot be identified, the local or regional board of education for the school district in which the juvenile residential center is located shall be eligible to receive on a current basis from the State Board of Education any costs in excess of such local or regional board of education's prior year's average per pupil costs. Application for the grant to be paid by the state for costs in excess of the local or regional board of education's basic contribution shall be made in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (5) of subsection (e) of section 10-76d.
(4) The local or regional board of education under whose jurisdiction the child would otherwise be attending school shall be financially responsible for the provision of educational services to the child placed in a juvenile residential center as provided in subdivision (3) of this subsection notwithstanding that the child has been suspended from school pursuant to section 10-233c, has been expelled from school pursuant to section 10-233d or has withdrawn, dropped out or otherwise terminated enrollment from school. Upon notification of such board of education by the educational services provider for the juvenile residential center, the child shall be reenrolled in the school district where the child would otherwise be attending school or, if no such district can be identified, in the school district in which the juvenile residential center is located, and provided with educational services in accordance with the provisions of this subsection.
(5) The local or regional board of education under whose jurisdiction the child would otherwise be attending school or, if no such board can be identified, the local or regional board of education for the school district in which the juvenile residential center is located shall be notified in writing by the Judicial Branch of the child's placement at the juvenile residential center not later than one business day after the child's placement, notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes. The notification shall include the child's name and date of birth, the address of the child's parents or guardian, placement location and contact information, and such other information as is necessary to provide educational services to the child.
(6) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, a child who is enrolled in a school district at the time of placement in a juvenile residential center shall remain enrolled in that same school district for the duration of his or her detention, unless the child voluntarily terminates enrollment, and shall have the right to return to such school district immediately upon discharge from the juvenile residential center into the community.
(7) When a child is not enrolled in a school at the time of placement in a juvenile residential center:
(A) The child shall be enrolled in the school district where the child would otherwise be attending school not later than three business days after notification is given pursuant to subdivision (4) of this subsection.
(B) If no such district can be identified, the child shall be enrolled in the school district in which the juvenile residential center is located not later than three business days after the determination is made that no such district can be identified.
(8) Upon learning that a child is to be discharged from a juvenile residential center, the educational services provider for the juvenile residential center shall immediately notify the jurisdiction in which the child will continue his or her education after discharge from the juvenile residential center.
(9) Prior to the child's discharge from the juvenile residential center, the local or regional board of education responsible for the provision of educational services to children in the juvenile residential center shall conduct an assessment of the school work completed by the child to determine an assignment of academic credit for the work completed. Credit assigned shall be the credit of the local or regional board of education responsible for the provision of the educational services. Credit assigned for work completed by the child shall be accepted in transfer by the local or regional board of education for the school district in which the child continues his or her education after discharge from the juvenile residential center.
(h) (1) On or before August 1, 2018, each eligible school district shall designate and maintain at least one employee as a liaison to facilitate transitions between the school district and the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
(2) The designation required under subdivision (1) of this subsection shall be made by providing the Court Support Services Division of the Judicial Branch with written notice, on or before August first annually, of the name and professional title of and the contact information for such liaison.
(3) In each district, the liaison shall assist the school district, the Court Support Services Division of the Judicial Branch and any relevant educational service providers in ensuring that:
(A) All persons twenty-two years of age or younger in justice system custody are promptly evaluated for eligibility for special education services to be provided until such child is graduated from high school or at the end of the school year during which such child reaches age twenty-two, whichever occurs first, pursuant to section 17a-65 and any other applicable law;
(B) Students in justice system custody and returning to the community from justice system custody are promptly enrolled in school pursuant to this section and section 10-186;
(C) Students in justice system custody and returning to the community from justice system custody receive appropriate credit for school work completed in custody, pursuant to this section or section 10-220h;
(D) All relevant school records for students who enter justice system custody and who return to the community from justice system custody are promptly transferred to the appropriate school district or educational service provider, pursuant to section 10-220h.
(4) For purposes of this subsection:
(A) An “eligible school district” means a school district that enrolled at least six thousand students during the school year ending June 30, 2017.
(B) “Justice system custody” means physical or legal custody or control of a child in a facility or program run by or contracted with the Department of Correction, or the Court Support Services Division of the Judicial Branch, either pending or pursuant to an adjudication or conviction for a delinquent act or criminal offense.
(C) “Child” means child, as defined in section 46b-120, or any other person under eighteen years of age.
(1949 Rev., S. 1550; 1955, S. 966d; February, 1965, P.A. 586, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 793, S. 6; P.A. 75-420, S. 4, 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 521, 610; P.A. 78-218, S. 182; P.A. 80-483, S. 44, 186; P.A. 81-257, S. 9, 10; 81-432, S. 3, 11; P.A. 82-311, S. 2, 4; P.A. 83-88, S. 1, 2; P.A. 85-473, S. 2, 3; P.A. 86-303, S. 2, 4; P.A. 87-179, S. 1, 2; P.A. 88-360, S. 13, 63; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-237, S. 4, 7; 95-257, S. 33, 58; P.A. 96-146, S. 10, 12; P.A. 98-168, S. 4, 26; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 8, 246; P.A. 05-245, S. 20; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6, S. 47; P.A. 11-48, S. 181; 11-51, S. 28; P.A. 13-247, S. 163; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 251; P.A. 17-194, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 580; P.A. 18-31, S. 3, 4; P.A. 19-117, S. 268; 19-179, S. 2; P.A. 21-104, S. 9; June Sp. Sess. 21-2, S. 369; P.A. 23-1, S. 10; 23-137, S. 34, 35.)
History: 1965 act amended Subsec. (a) providing exception to requirement that children placed by welfare commissioner receive free school privileges in town where placed; 1969 act deleted reference to placement in hospitals or custodial institutions for periods less than a school year in Subsec. (a) and excluded from provisions “children placed in hospitals or custodial institutions pursuant to agreements made under section 10-76d of the 1967 supplement …”; P.A. 75-420 substituted commissioner of social services for welfare commissioner; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of human resources for commissioner of social services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-218 substituted “board of education” for “town” where a duty implied and “school district” for “town” where geographical location implied; P.A. 80-483 substituted commissioner of children and youth services for commissioner of human resources; P.A. 81-257 repealed Subsec. (d) which had required enumeration of child in district he resides on date of enumeration; P.A. 81-432 clarified educational and financial responsibilities for state agency placements; P.A. 82-311 clarified provisions of P.A. 81-432 concerning the provision of an education for non-special-education children who are placed by state agencies by amending Subsec. (a) to require that the responsibility for children placed by state agencies rests with the school district where the child is placed if no responsible school board can be determined; and amending Subsec. (d) to specify that children not requiring special education who are placed by a public agency in any facility or home are the responsibility of the district where they are placed; P.A. 83-88 amended Subsec. (c) to authorize board to establish rate of tuition for nonresident children; P.A. 85-473 amended section to apply to certain residents of department of mental health facilities; P.A. 86-303 in Subsec. (d) added the provision that the residence not be for the sole purpose of obtaining school accommodations and made other provisions re requiring documentation re the nature of the residence; P.A. 87-179 amended Subsec. (a) to make children placed out by licensed private child-caring or child-placing agencies entitled to the free school privileges of the school district where they reside as a result of placement and added new Subsec. (e) re financial responsibility for educational costs for children in temporary shelters; P.A. 88-360 in Subsec. (a) added reference to the Connecticut alcohol and drug abuse commission; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-381 replaced Connecticut alcohol and drug abuse commission with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-237 amended Subsec. (e) to add the exception concerning financial liability for special education and related services for children placed by the Department of Children and Families, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 95-257 replaced Department of Mental Health with Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, replaced Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Department of Public Health, and added “except as provided in subparagraph (B) of subdivision (4) of subsection (e) of section 10-76d” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 1995 (Revisor's note: The reference to “subparagraph (B) of” was deleted editorially by the Revisors since Sec. 32 of P.A. 95-257 deleted former Subpara. (A) and the Subpara. (B) indicator from Sec. 10-76d(e)(4)); P.A. 96-146 amended Subsec. (e)(2) to make the Department of Children and Families responsible for the cost of special education and related services for certain children and to specify that the responsibility of the department or the school district in which the child resided prior to placement shall be to the extent the department or board is responsible for such costs under Sec. 10-76d(a)(2)(B), effective May 29, 1996; P.A. 98-168 amended Subsec. (b) to change one method for determining the financial responsibility of local and regional boards of education from “two and one-half times” the average to the average per pupil educational costs, effective July 1, 1998; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 amended Subsec. (b) by adding provisions re proportional reductions in grants for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2004, and June 30, 2005, and added Subsec. (f) requiring the provision of educational services to homeless children and youths by local and regional boards in accordance with the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 05-245 added language re placements by offices of a government of a federally recognized Native American tribe in Subsecs. (a), (b) and (d), and amended Subsec. (b) to extend the proportional reduction of grants through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, effective July 1, 2005; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6 amended Subsec. (b) to add language extending proportional reduction of grants through fiscal years ending June 30, 2010, and June 30, 2011, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (b) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-51 added Subsec. (g) re provision of educational services to children detained in juvenile detention facility and financial responsibility therefor, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-247 amended Subsec. (b) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, effective July 1, 2013; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 amended Subsec. (b) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 17-194 amended Subsec. (f) by adding provision re unaccompanied youth, effective July 1, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (b) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 18-31 amended Subsec. (g) to make a technical change in Subdiv. (5), add new Subdiv. (6) re child enrolled in school district at time of placement in juvenile detention facility, add Subdiv. (7) re child not enrolled in school at time of placement in juvenile detention facility, add Subdiv. (8) re child discharged from juvenile detention facility and redesignated existing Subdiv. (6) as Subdiv. (9) and amend same by making a technical change, effective August 1, 2018, and added Subsec. (h) re designation of liaison to facilitate transitions between school district and juvenile and criminal justice systems, effective June 1, 2018; P.A. 19-117 amended Subsec. (b) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal year ending June 30, 2021, effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 19-179 amended Subsec. (f) by adding provision re homeless child or youth denied school accommodations on basis of residency entitled to hearing conducted pursuant to Sec. 10-186, effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 21-104 amended Subsec. (g) to replace “detention facility” with “residential center” and make conforming changes, effective January 1, 2022; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (b) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 23-1 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing provision re proportional reduction of grants if total amount of grants payable exceed amount appropriated with provision re amount of grants calculated in accordance with provisions of Sec. 10-76g(d) and (e) and making technical changes, effective February 14, 2023; P.A. 23-137 amended Subsecs. (a) and (h)(3)(A) by adding reference re entitlement to school privileges and provision of special education services, respectively, for children requiring special education until such child graduates or the end of the school year during which such child reaches age 22, whichever is earlier, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-262f. Definitions. Whenever used in this section and sections 10-262h to 10-262j, inclusive:
(1) “Adjusted equalized net grand list” means the equalized net grand list of a town multiplied by its income adjustment factor.
(2) “Base aid ratio” means for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, and each fiscal year thereafter, the sum of (A) one minus the town's wealth adjustment factor, and (B) the town's base aid ratio adjustment factor, if any, except that a town's base aid ratio shall not be less than (i) ten per cent for a town designated as an alliance district, as defined in section 10-262u, or a priority school district, as described in section 10-266p, and (ii) one per cent for a town that is not designated as an alliance district or a priority school district.
(3) “Income adjustment factor” means the average of a town's per capita income divided by the per capita income of the town with the highest per capita income in the state and a town's median household income divided by the median household income of the town with the highest median household income in the state.
(4) “Median household income” for each town means that enumerated in the most recent federal decennial census of population or that enumerated in the current population report series issued by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, whichever is more recent and available on January first of the fiscal year two years prior to the fiscal year in which payment is to be made pursuant to section 10-262i.
(5) “Supplemental aid factor” means for each town the average of its percentage of children eligible under the temporary family assistance program and its grant mastery percentage.
(6) “Percentage of children eligible under the temporary family assistance program” means the town's number of children under the temporary family assistance program divided by the number of children age five to seventeen, inclusive, in the town.
(7) “Average mastery percentage” means for each school year the average of the three most recent mastery percentages available on December first of the school year.
(8) “Equalized net grand list”, for purposes of calculating the amount of grant to which any town is entitled in accordance with section 10-262h, means the average of the net grand lists of the town upon which taxes were levied for the general expenses of the town two, three and four years prior to the fiscal year in which such grant is to be paid, provided such net grand lists are equalized in accordance with section 10-261a.
(9) “Foundation” means (A) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1990, three thousand nine hundred eighteen dollars, (B) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1991, four thousand one hundred ninety-two dollars, (C) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1992, four thousand four hundred eighty-six dollars, (D) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1993, June 30, 1994, and June 30, 1995, four thousand eight hundred dollars, (E) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1996, June 30, 1997, and June 30, 1998, five thousand seven hundred eleven dollars, (F) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, five thousand seven hundred seventy-five dollars, (G) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, to June 30, 2007, inclusive, five thousand eight hundred ninety-one dollars, (H) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2008, to June 30, 2013, inclusive, nine thousand six hundred eighty-seven dollars, and (I) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, and each fiscal year thereafter, eleven thousand five hundred twenty-five dollars.
(10) “Number of children age five to seventeen, inclusive” means that enumerated in the most recent federal decennial census of population or enumerated in the current population report series issued by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, whichever is more recent and available on January first of the fiscal year two years prior to the fiscal year in which payment is to be made pursuant to section 10-262i.
(11) “Supplemental aid ratio” means .04 times the supplemental aid factor of a town divided by the highest supplemental aid factor when all towns are ranked from low to high, provided any town whose percentage of children eligible under the temporary family assistance program exceeds twenty-five shall have a supplemental aid ratio of .04.
(12) “Grant mastery percentage” means (A) for the school year ending June 30, 1989, average mastery percentage, and (B) for the school years ending June 30, 1990, through the school year ending June 30, 1995, the average mastery percentage plus the mastery improvement bonus, and (C) for each school year thereafter, the average mastery percentage.
(13) “Mastery count” of a town means for each school year the grant mastery percentage of the town multiplied by the number of resident students.
(14) “Mastery improvement bonus” means for each school year through the school year ending June 30, 1995, seventy-five per cent of the difference between (A) the grant mastery percentage for the previous school year, and (B) the average mastery percentage for the school year, but not less than zero.
(15) “Mastery percentage” of a town for any school year means, using the mastery test data of record for the mastery examination administered in such year, pursuant to section 10-14n, the number obtained by dividing (A) the total number of valid tests with scores below the state-wide standard for remedial assistance, as determined by the Department of Education, in each subject of the examinations pursuant to subsection (b) of section 10-14n taken by resident students, by (B) the total number of such valid tests taken by such students.
(16) “Mastery test data of record” means for the school year commencing July 1, 2013, and each school year thereafter, the data of record subsequent to the administration of the mastery examinations pursuant to subsection (b) of section 10-14n, as adjusted by the Department of Education pursuant to a request by a local or regional board of education filed with the department not later than the August thirtieth following the administration of such examination.
(17) “Number of children under the temporary family assistance program” means the number obtained by adding together the unduplicated aggregate number of children five to eighteen years of age eligible to receive benefits under the temporary family assistance program or its predecessor federal program, as appropriate, in October and May of each fiscal year, and dividing by two, such number to be certified and submitted annually, no later than the first day of July of the succeeding fiscal year, to the Commissioner of Education by the Commissioner of Social Services.
(18) “Per capita income” for each town means that enumerated in the most recent federal decennial census of population or that enumerated in the current population report series issued by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, whichever is more recent and available on January first of the fiscal year two years prior to the fiscal year in which payment is to be made pursuant to section 10-262i.
(19) “Regional bonus” means, (A) for any town which is a member of a regional school district and has students who attend such regional school district, an amount equal to one hundred dollars for each such student enrolled in the regional school district on October first or the full school day immediately preceding such date for the school year prior to the fiscal year in which the grant is to be paid multiplied by the number of grades, kindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive, in the regional school district, and (B) for any town which pays tuition for its students to attend an incorporated or endowed high school or academy approved by the State Board of Education pursuant to section 10-34, an amount equal to one hundred dollars for each such student enrolled in an incorporated or endowed high school or academy on October first or the full school day immediately preceding such date for the school year prior to the fiscal year in which the grant is to be paid multiplied by the number of grades for which students attend an incorporated or endowed high school or academy.
(20) “Regular program expenditures” means (A) total current educational expenditures less (B) expenditures for (i) special education programs pursuant to subsection (h) of section 10-76f, (ii) pupil transportation eligible for reimbursement pursuant to section 10-266m, (iii) land and capital building expenditures, and equipment otherwise supported by a state grant pursuant to chapter 173, including debt service, (iv) health services for nonpublic school children, (v) adult education, (C) expenditures directly attributable to (i) state grants received by or on behalf of school districts except grants for the categories of expenditures listed in subparagraphs (B)(i) to (B)(iv), inclusive, of this subdivision and except grants received pursuant to section 10-262i and section 10-262c of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 1987, and except grants received pursuant to chapter 173, (ii) federal grants received by or on behalf of school districts except for adult education and federal impact aid, and (iii) receipts from the operation of child nutrition services and student activities services, (D) expenditures of funds from private and other sources, and (E) tuition received on account of nonresident students. The town of Woodstock may include as part of the current expenses of its public schools for each school year the amount expended for current expenses in that year by Woodstock Academy from income from its endowment funds upon receipt from said academy of a certified statement of such current expenses. The town of Winchester may include as part of the current expenses of its public school for each school year the amount expended for current expenses in that year by the Gilbert School from income from its endowment funds upon receipt from said school of a certified statement of such current expenses.
(21) “Regular program expenditures per need student” means, in any year, the regular program expenditures of a town for such year divided by the number of total need students in the town for such school year, provided for towns which are members of a kindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive, regional school district and for such regional school district, “regular program expenditures per need student” means, in any year, the regular program expenditures of such regional school district divided by the sum of the number of total need students in all such member towns.
(22) “Resident students” means the number of pupils of the town enrolled in public schools at the expense of the town on October first or the full school day immediately preceding such date, provided the number shall be decreased by the Department of Education for failure to comply with the provisions of section 10-16 and shall be increased by one one-hundred-eightieth for each full-time equivalent school day in the school year immediately preceding such date of at least five hours of actual school work in excess of one hundred eighty days and nine hundred hours of actual school work and be increased by the full-time equivalent number of such pupils attending the summer sessions immediately preceding such date at the expense of the town; “enrolled” shall include pupils who are scheduled for vacation on the above date and who are expected to return to school as scheduled. Pupils participating in the program established pursuant to section 10-266aa shall be counted in accordance with the provisions of subsection (h) of section 10-266aa.
(23) “Schools” means nursery schools, kindergarten and grades one to twelve, inclusive.
(24) “State guaranteed wealth level” means (A) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1990, 1.8335 times the town wealth of the town with the median wealth as calculated using the data of record on December first of the fiscal year prior to the year in which the grant is to be paid pursuant to section 10-262i, (B) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1991, and 1992, 1.6651 times the town wealth of the town with such median wealth, (C) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1993, June 30, 1994, and June 30, 1995, 1.5361 times the town wealth of the town with the median wealth, (D) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1996, to June 30, 2007, inclusive, 1.55 times the town wealth of the town with the median wealth, and (E) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, and each fiscal year thereafter, 1.75 times the town wealth of the town with the median wealth.
(25) “Total need students” means the sum of (A) the number of resident students of the town for the school year, (B) for the school year commencing July 1, 2021, and each school year thereafter, (i) thirty per cent of the number of children eligible for free or reduced price meals or free milk, (ii) fifteen per cent of the number of children eligible for free or reduced price meals or free milk in excess of the number of children eligible for free or reduced price meals or free milk that is equal to sixty per cent of the total number of resident students of the town for the school year, and (iii) twenty-five per cent of the number of resident students who are multilingual learners, as defined in section 10-76kk.
(26) “Town wealth” means the average of a town's adjusted equalized net grand list divided by its total need students for the fiscal year prior to the year in which the grant is to be paid and its adjusted equalized net grand list divided by its population.
(27) “Population” of a town means that enumerated in the most recent federal decennial census of population or that enumerated in the current population report series issued by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census available on January first of the fiscal year two years prior to the fiscal year in which a grant is to be paid, whichever is most recent; except that any town whose enumerated population residing in state and federal institutions within such town and attributed to such town by the census exceeds forty per cent of such “population” shall have its population adjusted as follows: Persons who are incarcerated or in custodial situations, including, but not limited to jails, prisons, hospitals or training schools or persons who reside in dormitory facilities in schools, colleges, universities or on military bases shall not be counted in the “population” of a town.
(28) “Base revenue” for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1995, means the sum of the grant entitlements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1995, of a town pursuant to section 10-262h of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2013, and subsection (a) of section 10-76g, including its proportional share, based on enrollment, of the revenue paid pursuant to section 10-76g, to the regional district of which the town is a member, and for each fiscal year thereafter means the amount of each town's entitlement pursuant to section 10-262h of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2013, minus its density supplement, as determined pursuant to subdivision (6) of subsection (a) of section 10-262h of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2013, except that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, each town's entitlement shall be determined without using the adjustments made to the previous year's grant pursuant to subparagraph (M) of subdivision (6) of subsection (a) of section 10-262h of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2013, except that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, each town's entitlement shall be determined without using the adjustments made to the previous year's grant pursuant to subparagraph (N) of subdivision (6) of subsection (a) of section 10-262h of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2013.
(29) “Density” means the population of a town divided by the square miles of a town.
(30) “Density aid ratio” means the product of (A) the density of a town divided by the density of the town in the state with the highest density, and (B) .006273.
(31) “Mastery goal improvement count” means the product of (A) the difference between the percentage of state-wide mastery examination scores, pursuant to subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of section 10-14n, at or above the mastery goal level for the most recently completed school year and the percentage of such scores for the prior school year, and (B) the resident students of the town, or zero, whichever is greater.
(32) “Target aid” means the sum of (A) the product of a town's base aid ratio, the foundation level and the town's total need students for the fiscal year prior to the year in which the grant is to be paid, (B) the product of a town's supplemental aid ratio, the foundation level and the sum of the portion of its total need students count described in subparagraphs (B) and (C) of subdivision (25) of this section for the fiscal year prior to the fiscal year in which the grant is to be paid, and the adjustments to its resident student count described in subdivision (22) of this section relative to length of school year and summer school sessions, and (C) the town's regional bonus.
(33) “Fully funded grant” means the sum of (A) the product of a town's base aid ratio, the foundation and the town's total need students for the fiscal year prior to the year in which the grant is to be paid, and (B) the town's regional bonus.
(34) “Number of children below the level of poverty” means the number of children, ages five to seventeen, inclusive, in families in poverty, as determined under Part A of Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act, P.L. 107-110. The count for member towns of regional school districts shall be the sum of towns' initial determination under Title I and the proportionate share of the regional districts determination based member enrollment in the regional district.
(35) “Current program expenditures” means (A) total current educational expenditures less (B) expenditures for (i) land and capital building expenditures, and equipment otherwise supported by a state grant pursuant to chapter 173, including debt service, (ii) health services for nonpublic school children, and (iii) adult education, (C) expenditures directly attributable to (i) state grants received by or on behalf of school districts except grants for the categories of expenditures listed in subparagraphs (B)(i) to (B)(iii), inclusive, of this subdivision and except grants received pursuant to section 10-262i and section 10-262c of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 1987, and except grants received pursuant to chapter 173, (ii) federal grants received by or on behalf of school districts except for adult education and federal impact aid, and (iii) receipts from the operation of child nutrition services and student activities services, (D) expenditures of funds from private and other sources, and (E) tuition received on account of nonresident students. The town of Woodstock may include as part of the current expenses of its public schools for each school year the amount expended for current expenses in that year by Woodstock Academy from income from its endowment funds upon receipt from said academy of a certified statement of such current expenses. The town of Winchester may include as part of the current expenses of its public school for each school year the amount expended for current expenses in that year by the Gilbert School from income from its endowment funds upon receipt from said school of a certified statement of such current expenses.
(36) “Current program expenditures per resident student” means, in any year, the current program expenditures of a town for such year divided by the number of resident students in the town for such school year.
(37) “Base aid” means the amount of the grant pursuant to section 10-262h of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2013, that a town was eligible to receive for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013.
(38) “Local funding percentage” means that for the fiscal year two years prior to the fiscal year in which the grant is to be paid pursuant to section 10-262i, the number obtained by dividing (A) total current educational expenditures less (i) expenditures for (I) land and capital building expenditures, and equipment otherwise supported by a state grant pursuant to chapter 173, including debt service, (II) health services for nonpublic school children, and (III) adult education, (ii) expenditures directly attributable to (I) state grants received by or on behalf of school districts, except those grants for the categories of expenditures described in subparagraphs (A)(i)(I) to (A)(i)(III), inclusive, of this subdivision, and except grants received pursuant to chapter 173, (II) federal grants received by or on behalf of local or regional boards of education, except those grants for adult education and federal impact aid, and (III) receipts from the operation of child nutrition services and student activities services, (iii) expenditures of funds from private and other sources, and (iv) tuition received by the district for the education of nonresident students, by (B) total current educational expenditures less expenditures for (i) land and capital building expenditures, and equipment otherwise supported by a state grant pursuant to chapter 173, including debt service, (ii) health services for nonpublic school children, and (iii) adult education.
(39) “Minimum local funding percentage” means (A) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, twenty per cent, (B) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, twenty-one per cent, (C) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, twenty-two per cent, (D) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, twenty-three per cent, and (E) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, twenty-four per cent.
(40) “Number of children eligible for free or reduced price meals or free milk” means the number of pupils of the town enrolled in public schools at the expense of the town on October first or the full school day immediately preceding such date, in families that meet the income eligibility guidelines established by the federal Department of Agriculture for free or reduced price meals or free milk under the National School Lunch Program, established pursuant to P.L. 79-396.
(41) “Equalized net grand list per capita” means the equalized net grand list of a town divided by the population of such town.
(42) “Equalized net grand list adjustment factor” means (A) for the fiscal years prior to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, the ratio of the town's equalized net grand list per capita to one and one-half times the town equalized net grand list per capita of the town with the median equalized net grand list per capita, and (B) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, and each fiscal year thereafter, the ratio of the town's equalized net grand list per capita to one and thirty-five-one-hundredths times the town equalized net grand list per capita of the town with the median equalized net grand list per capita.
(43) “Median household income adjustment factor” means (A) for the fiscal years prior to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, the ratio of the median household income of the town to one and one-half times the median household income of the town with the median household income when all towns are ranked according to median household income, and (B) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, and each fiscal year thereafter, the ratio of the median household income of the town to one and thirty-five-one-hundredths times the median household income of the town with the median household income when all towns are ranked according to median household income.
(44) “Wealth adjustment factor” means (A) for the fiscal years prior to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, the sum of a town's equalized net grand list adjustment factor multiplied by ninety one-hundredths per cent and a town's median household income adjustment factor multiplied by ten one-hundredths per cent, and (B) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, and each fiscal year thereafter, the sum of a town's equalized net grand list adjustment factor multiplied by seventy per cent and a town's median household income adjustment factor multiplied by thirty per cent.
(45) “Net current expenditures per resident student” means, in any school year, the net current expenditures, as defined in section 10-261, for such school year divided by the number of resident students in the town for such school year.
(46) “Base aid ratio adjustment factor” means (A) six percentage points for those towns ranked one, two, three, four or five in total eligibility index points, (B) five percentage points for those towns ranked six, seven, eight, nine or ten in total eligibility index points, (C) four percentage points for those towns ranked eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen or fifteen in total eligibility index points, and (D) three percentage points for those towns ranked sixteen, seventeen, eighteen or nineteen in total eligibility index points.
(47) “Eligibility index” has the same meaning as provided in section 7-545.
(48) “Base grant amount” means the equalization aid grant a town was entitled to receive for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, as enumerated in section 20 of public act 16-2 of the May special session*, minus any reductions to said equalization aid grant during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, resulting from lapses to the funds appropriated for said equalization aid grant attributable to the recommendation made by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, pursuant to section 12 of public act 15-244*.
(49) “Grant adjustment” means the absolute value of the difference between a town's equalization aid grant entitlement for the previous fiscal year and its fully funded grant.
(P.A. 88-358, S. 1, 9; P.A. 89-124, S. 2–4, 13; 89-355, S. 7–9, 20; P.A. 90-225, S. 4–6, 10; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7, S. 10, 22; P.A. 92-262, S. 24, 25, 42; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-14, S. 3, 11; P.A. 93-145, S. 1, 6; 93-262, S. 1, 87; 93-353, S. 48, 52; P.A. 95-226, S. 1, 30; P.A. 96-161, S. 7, 13; 96-244, S. 23, 24, 63; P.A. 97-290, S. 24, 29; 97-318, S. 1, 12; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2, S. 13, 165; P.A. 98-168, S. 14, 26; 98-252, S. 18, 80; P.A. 99-217, S. 1–4, 8; 99-289, S. 8, 11; P.A. 00-187, S. 13, 75; 00-220, S. 14, 43; P.A. 01-173, S. 22, 67; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1, S. 1–3, 54; P.A. 03-76, S. 21, 22; 03-278, S. 115; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 22, 24; P.A. 05-13, S. 2, 3; 05-245, S. 29; P.A. 07-241, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3, S. 61; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 48; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6, S. 26; P.A. 11-48, S. 202; 11-179, S. 6, 7; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 287; P.A. 13-207, S. 3; 13-247, S. 152; P.A. 14-217, S. 110, 111; P.A. 15-99, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 328; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 225–229; P.A. 18-139, S. 7; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 349, 350; P.A. 22-118, S. 268, 269; P.A. 23-150, S. 32.)
*Note: Section 20 of public act 16-2 of the May special session and section 12 of public act 15-244 are special in nature and therefore have not been codified but remain in full force and effect according to their terms.
History: P.A. 89-124 redefined “regional bonus” to add a provision that the regional bonus is for towns which are members of regional school districts, to provide that the bonus equals $25 for each student enrolled in the regional school district on October first or the immediately preceding full school day rather than for each resident student and made a technical change, redefined “regular program expenditures” to substitute “capital building expenditures” for “buildings” in Subpara. (B)(iii), transferred Subpara. (C)(i) re tuition received on account of nonresident students to new Subpara. (E) and renumbered the subparagraph, in new Subpara. (C)(i) excepted grants received pursuant to Sec. 10-257f and chapter 173 and added new Subpara. (D) re expenditures of funds from private and other sources, and in Subdiv. (18) added a definition of “regular program expenditures per need student” for towns which are members of certain regional school districts and for such school districts; P.A. 89-355 redefined “education enhancement aid” by substituting 4.5% for 5% as the amount to be added to base aid for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1990, in Subpara. (A) and by substituting 4.5% for 5% as the amount to be added to the previous year's education enhancement aid for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1991, and each fiscal year thereafter in Subpara. (B), redefined “minimum aid” by substituting one-half of 1% for 1% as the amount to be added to base aid for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1990, in Subpara. (A) and by substituting 0.5% for 1% as the amount to be added to the previous year's minimum aid for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1991, and each fiscal year thereafter in Subpara. (B), and redefined “state guaranteed wealth level” by substituting 1.8335 for two as the number to be multiplied by the town wealth of the town with the median wealth; P.A. 90-225 in Subdiv. (5) redefined “education enhancement aid” to be for towns which rank seventeen to one hundred sixty-nine in wealth rather than for towns which in a certain fiscal year did not receive certain educational equalization grants and for the fiscal years after the fiscal year ending June 30, 1990, added that education enhancement aid can be the previous year's minimum aid, if applicable, and reduced the additional percentage from 4.5% to 4%; Subdiv. (13) redefined “minimum aid” to be for towns which rank one to sixteen in wealth rather than for towns which in a certain fiscal year did not receive certain educational equalization grants and for the fiscal years after June 30, 1990, added that minimum aid means the previous year's minimum aid or education enhancement aid rather than the previous year's minimum aid plus one-half of 1% and in Subdiv. (22) redefined “state guaranteed wealth level” to be 1.6651 times the town wealth of the town with the median wealth for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1991, and thereafter; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7 amended Subdivs. (5) and (13) to substitute “the fiscal year ending June 30, 1992” for “each fiscal year thereafter” and amended Subdiv. (17) to remove a reference to welfare services for nonpublic school children; P.A. 92-262 amended Subdiv. (22) to add 1992 in Subpara. (B) and to add Subpara. (C) pertaining to fiscal year 1993 and ensuing years and added Subdivs. (28) and (29) defining “equalized mill rate” and “grand levy”; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-14 amended Subdiv. (29) to add “net taxable”; (Revisor's note: In 1993 an obsolete reference in Subdiv. (14) to repealed Sec. 17-107 was replaced editorially by the Revisors with reference to Sec. 17-106); P.A. 93-145 amended Subdiv. (7)(D) to include the fiscal years ending June 30, 1994, and June 30, 1995, and Subdiv. (7)(E) to replace the fiscal year ending June 30, 1994, with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1996, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department of income maintenance, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-353 amended Subdivs. (11) and (12) defining “mastery percentage” and “mastery test data of record” to remove a reference to Sec. 10-14n(c), effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-226 revised the definitions of “adjusted equalized net grand list”, “base aid ratio”, “foundation”, “grant mastery percentage”, “mastery improvement bonus”, “mastery percentage”, “regular program expenditures”, “resident students”, “state guaranteed wealth level”, “total need students” and “town wealth”, added the definitions of “income adjustment factor”, “median household income”, “supplemental aid factor”, “percentage of children eligible under the aid to families with dependent children program”, “number of children age five to seventeen, inclusive”, “supplemental aid ratio”, “population”, “base revenue”, “density”, “density aid ratio” and “mastery goal improvement count”, deleted definitions, made technical changes and renumbered, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-161 redefined “resident students” to change the basis for decreases and increases to correspond to the requirements of Sec. 10-16 and to rewrite the provision concerning the counting of students attending summer sessions, effective June 3, 1996; P.A. 96-244 amended Subdiv. (20) to make technical changes, deleting references to Secs. 10-257b to 10-257d, inclusive, and 10-257f, repealed elsewhere in the act, and amended Subdiv. (29) to substitute “enrollment” for “resident student counts”, effective July 1, 1996 (Revisor's note: P.A. 96-244 omitted the closing sentence of Subdiv. (20) re inclusion of Gilbert School expenses as part of public school expenses of the town of Winchester. Since the provision was not enclosed within brackets the omission has been treated as a clerical error and the provision, as enacted by section 1 of public act 95-226, preserved); P.A. 97-290 amended Subdiv. (22) to add provision concerning pupils participating in the program established pursuant to Sec. 10-266aa, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 97-318 amended Subdiv. (9) to add June 30, 1998, and June 30, 1999, made a technical change in Subdiv. (13) and deleted former Subdiv. (23) defining “resident students in regular programs”, renumbering the remaining Subdivs., effective July 1, 1997; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2 replaced references to “aid to families with dependent children” with “temporary family assistance”, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-168 amended the definition of “foundation” in Subpara. (E) of Subdiv. (9)(E) to increase the amount to $5,775, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 98-252 made technical changes in Subdivs. (5) and (11), effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 99-217 amended Subdiv. (2) to substitute “six one-hundredths” for “zero”, amended Subdiv. (9) to add provisions pertaining to the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, and June 30, 2001, and to make technical changes, amended Subdiv. (17) to add reference to the predecessor federal program to the temporary family assistance program, and amended Subdiv. (25) to add provision in Subpara. (B)(ii) and to make the existing language in Subpara. (B)(i) apply to school years commencing prior to July 1, 1998, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 99-289 amended Subdiv. (22) to remove an obsolete reference, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 00-187 amended Subdiv. (19) to increase the amount from $25 to $100, effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 00-220 amended Subdiv. (22) to make a technical change, effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 01-173 amended Subdiv. (22) to make a technical change, effective July 1, 2001; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1 amended Subdiv. (9)(G) to apply the amount through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, amended Subdiv. (28) to add exception for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, and added Subdiv. (32) defining “target aid”, effective July 1, 2001 (Revisor's note: In Subdiv. (28), the word “of” was added editorially by the Revisors after “subdivision (6)” and before “subsection (a)” for clarity and proper form); P.A. 03-76 made technical changes in Subdivs. (16) and (20), effective June 3, 2003; P.A. 03-278 made a technical change in Subdiv. (22), effective July 9, 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 amended Subdiv. (9)(G) to apply amount through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, and amended Subdiv. (28) by adding provision re town's entitlement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 05-13 made technical changes in Subdivs. (15), (16) and (31), effective May 4, 2005; P.A. 05-245 amended Subdiv. (9)(G) to apply amount through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 07-241 redefined “mastery percentage” in Subdiv. (15) to eliminate reference to examination year and redefined “mastery test data of record” in Subdiv. (16) to limit existing language to examinations administered prior to 2005-2006 school year, designate existing language as Subpara. (A) and add Subpara. (B) re examinations administered in 2005-2006 school year and each school year thereafter, effective July 1, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3 amended Subdiv. (2) to redefine “base aid ratio” to be no less than nine one-hundredths, except for towns ranked one to twenty when ranked in descending order based on ratio of children below poverty to number of children age five to seventeen, amended Subdiv. (9) to define “foundation” for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2008, to June 30, 2012, in Subpara. (H), amended Subdiv. (24) to redefine “state guaranteed wealth level” for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, and each fiscal year thereafter, in Subpara. (E), amended Subdiv. (25) to redefine “total need students” to provide exception for fiscal year commencing July 1, 2008, in Subpara. (A), to terminate provision in Subpara. (B)(ii) with school year ending June 30, 2006, to provide that provisions in Subparas. (C) and (D) apply to school years commencing July 1, 1995, to July 1, 2006, and to add Subparas. (E) and (F) to apply to school years commencing on and after July 1, 2007, added Subdiv. (33) to define “fully funded grant”, added Subdiv. (34) to define “number of children below the level of poverty”, added Subdiv. (35) to define “current program expenditures”, added Subdiv. (36) to define “current program expenditures per resident student”, added Subdiv. (37) to define “base aid” and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 amended Subdiv. (35) to change references to regular program expenditures to current program expenditures and amended Subdiv. (36) to eliminate proviso re towns which are members of kindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive, regional school districts, effective October 6, 2007; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6 amended Subdiv. (25)(A) by deleting exception re one-quarter reduction applicable for fiscal year 2009, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 11-48 amended Subdiv. (9)(H) by replacing “2012” with “2013”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-179 amended Subdiv. (20)(B)(iii) and Subdiv. (35)(B)(i) by deleting proviso re debt service, effective July 13, 2011; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 added Subdiv. (38) re definition of “local funding percentage” and Subdiv. (39) re definition of “minimum local funding percentage”, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-207 redefined “mastery percentage” in Subdiv. (15) by adding reference to “mastery examination” and revising internal references and redefined “mastery test data of record” in Subdiv. (16) by deleting existing Subpara. (A), deleting existing Subpara. (B) designator and amending same by replacing provision re examinations administered in the 2005-2006 school year with provision re for the school year commencing July 1, 2013, and each school year thereafter, adding reference to “mastery examination” and revising internal references, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-247 added “of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2013,” in Subdivs. (2), (28) and (37), amended Subdiv. (2) by designating existing provisions as Subpara. (A) and amending same to apply to fiscal years 2008 to 2013 and by adding Subpara. (B) re base aid ratio to be one minus the town's wealth adjustment factor, except a town's aid ratio shall not be less than ten one-hundredths for alliance district towns and two one-hundredths for nonalliance district towns, amended Subdiv. (9) by adding Subpara. (I) re $11,525 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subdiv. (20) by deleting former Subpara. (B)(ii) re pupil transportation and redesignating existing Subparas. (B)(iii) to (B)(v) as Subparas. (B)(ii) to (B)(iv), amended Subdiv. (25) by making provisions of Subparas. (E) and (F) applicable to school years commencing July 1, 2007, to July 1, 2012, and adding Subpara. (G) re 30 per cent of number of children eligible for free or reduced price meals or free milk, amended Subdiv. (37) by replacing “2007” with “2013”, added Subdiv. (40) re definition of “number of children eligible for free or reduced price meals or free milk”, added Subdiv. (41) re definition of “equalized net grand list per capita”, added Subdiv. (42) re definition of “equalized net grand list adjustment factor”, added Subdiv. (43) re definition of “median household income adjustment factor” and added Subdiv. (44) re definition of “wealth adjustment factor”, effective July 1, 2013 (Revisor's note: In Subdiv. (20)(C)(i), a reference to Subpara. “(B)(v)” was changed editorially by the Revisors to Subpara. “(B)(iv)” to conform with changes made by P.A. 13-247); P.A. 14-217 amended Subdiv. (20) to redefine “regular program expenditures” by adding new Subpara. (B)(ii) re pupil transportation and redesignating existing Subparas. (B)(ii) to (B)(iv) as Subparas. (B)(iii) to (B)(v), and amended Subdiv. (43) to redefine “median household income adjustment factor” by adding “when all towns are ranked according to median household income”, effective June 13, 2014; P.A. 15-99 added Subdiv. (45) re definition of “net current expenditures per resident student”, effective July 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 redefined “mastery test data of record” in Subdiv. (16) by deleting “on the December thirty-first” and “for an adjustment of the mastery test data from such examination”, replacing “November” with “August” and making a technical change, effective July 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 redefined “base aid ratio” in Subdiv. (2), redefined “total need students” in Subdiv. (25), redefined “fully funded grant” in Subdiv. (33), redefined “equalized net grand list adjustment factor” in Subdiv. (42), redefined “median household income adjustment factor” in Subdiv. (43), redefined “wealth adjustment factor” in Subdiv. (44), added Subdiv. (46) re definition of “base aid ratio adjustment factor”, added Subdiv. (47) re definition of “eligibility index”, added Subdiv. (48) re definition of “base grant amount”, and added Subdiv. (49) re definition of “grant adjustment”, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 18-139 made technical changes in Subdiv. (42), effective June 11, 2018; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 redefined “regional bonus” in Subdiv. (19) and “total need students” in Subdiv. (25), effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-118 redefined “base aid ratio” in Subdiv. (2) and redefined “grant adjustment” in Subdiv. (49), effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 23-150 redefined “total need students” in Subdiv. (25) by replacing “English language” with “multilingual”, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-262h. Equalization aid grants. (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town designated as an alliance district, as defined in section 10-262u, shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its base grant amount; and (2) any town not designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to ninety-five per cent of its base grant amount.
(b) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its base grant amount shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its base grant amount plus four and one-tenth per cent of its grant adjustment; and (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its base grant amount shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its base grant amount minus twenty-five per cent of its grant adjustment, except any such town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its base grant amount.
(c) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2020, and June 30, 2021, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its base grant amount shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year plus ten and sixty-six-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment; and (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its base grant amount shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year minus eight and thirty-three-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment, except any such town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its base grant amount.
(d) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its base grant amount shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year plus ten and sixty-six-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment; and (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its base grant amount shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to the amount the town was entitled to for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021.
(e) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year plus sixteen and sixty-seven-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment; and (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to the amount the town was entitled to for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022.
(f) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year plus twenty per cent of its grant adjustment; (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to the amount the town was entitled to for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023; and (3) any town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount that is the greater of (A) the amount described in either subdivision (1) of this subsection or subdivision (2) of this subsection, as applicable, (B) its base grant amount, or (C) its equalization aid grant entitlement for the previous fiscal year.
(g) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year plus fifty-six and five tenths per cent of its grant adjustment; (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to the amount the town was entitled to for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024; and (3) any town designated as an alliance district, shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount that is the greater of (A) the amount described in either subdivision (1) of this subsection or subdivision (2) of this subsection, as applicable, (B) its base grant amount, or (C) its equalization aid grant entitlement for the previous fiscal year.
(h) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its fully funded grant; (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year minus fourteen and twenty-nine-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment; and (3) any town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount that is the greater of (A) the amount described in either subdivision (1) of this subsection or subdivision (2) of this subsection, as applicable, (B) its base grant amount, or (C) its equalization aid grant entitlement for the previous fiscal year.
(i) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its fully funded grant; (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year minus sixteen and sixty-seven-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment; and (3) any town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount that is the greater of (A) the amount described in either subdivision (1) of this subsection or subdivision (2) of this subsection, as applicable, (B) its base grant amount, or (C) its equalization aid grant entitlement for the previous fiscal year.
(j) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2028, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its fully funded grant; (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year minus twenty per cent of its grant adjustment; and (3) any town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount that is the greater of (A) the amount described in either subdivision (1) of this subsection or subdivision (2) of this subsection, as applicable, (B) its base grant amount, or (C) its equalization aid grant entitlement for the previous fiscal year.
(k) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2029, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its fully funded grant; (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year minus twenty-five per cent of its grant adjustment; and (3) any town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount that is the greater of (A) the amount described in either subdivision (1) of this subsection or subdivision (2) of this subsection, as applicable, (B) its base grant amount, or (C) its equalization aid grant entitlement for the previous fiscal year.
(l) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2030, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its fully funded grant; (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year minus thirty-three and thirty-three-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment; and (3) any town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount that is the greater of (A) the amount described in either subdivision (1) of this subsection or subdivision (2) of this subsection, as applicable, (B) its base grant amount, or (C) its equalization aid grant entitlement for the previous fiscal year.
(m) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2031, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its fully funded grant; (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year minus fifty per cent of its grant adjustment; and (3) any town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount that is the greater of (A) the amount described in either subdivision (1) of this subsection or subdivision (2) of this subsection, as applicable, (B) its base grant amount, or (C) its equalization aid grant entitlement for the previous fiscal year.
(n) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2032, and each fiscal year thereafter, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its fully funded grant, except any town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount that is the greater of (1) its fully funded grant, (2) its base grant amount, or (3) its equalization aid grant entitlement for the previous fiscal year.
(P.A. 88-358, S. 2, 9; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7, S. 11, 22; P.A. 92-262, S. 26, 42; P.A. 93-1, S. 1, 3; P.A. 95-226, S. 2, 30; P.A. 96-178, S. 2, 18; P.A. 97-318, S. 2, 12; P.A. 98-168, S. 15, 26; P.A. 99-217, S. 5, 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1, S. 4, 54; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7, S. 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 23; P.A. 04-254, S. 2; P.A. 05-2, S. 1; 05-245, S. 32; P.A. 06-135, S. 19; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3, S. 62; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 53; P.A. 08-170, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 72; P.A. 10-151, S. 2; P.A. 11-6, S. 37; P.A. 12-116, S. 59, 60; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 25, 26; P.A. 13-247, S. 153; P.A. 14-47, S. 18; P.A. 15-244, S. 33; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 230; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 348; P.A. 22-118, S. 267; P.A. 23-204, S. 340.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7 amended Subsec. (a)(3) to change the formula, amended Subsec. (a)(4) to require that no town receive a grant smaller than the grant it received in the previous fiscal year and limited the applicability of Subsec. (b) to the fiscal years ending in June 1990 and 1991; P.A. 92-262 amended Subsec. (a)(4) to change the formula for fiscal year 1992-1993 and added Subdiv. (5) re fiscal year 1993-1994 and thereafter; P.A. 93-1 amended Subsec. (a)(4) to clarify that the exception for distressed municipalities applies to towns which received payments during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1992, effective January 28, 1993; P.A. 95-226 amended Subsec. (a) to limit Subdiv. (5) to the years ending June 30, 1994, and June 30, 1995, and added Subdivs. (6) and (7) concerning grants for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1996, and June 30, 1997, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-178 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to add a further reduction of .02% or 0.56% for towns depending upon their rank when all towns are ranked in descending order according to town wealth, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 97-318 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to add provisions concerning the fiscal years ending June 30, 1998, and June 30, 1999, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-168 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to increase the amount of the maximum percentage increase from 2% to 5% and substituted the product of 5% for 2% in the formula for determining such percentage, decreased the amount of the maximum percentage reduction for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1997 to June 30, 1999, inclusive, from 9% to 5% and substituted the product of 5% for 9% in the formula for determining such percentage, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 99-217 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to extend the applicability of the formula to each fiscal year commencing after June 30, 1996, to add cap for the percentage increase for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, to June 30, 2003, and to specify that no such adjustment be made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, or any fiscal year thereafter, to provide that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, and each fiscal year thereafter, no town's grant shall be less than the grant it received for the prior fiscal year, to provide that the density supplement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, and each fiscal year thereafter, shall not be less than the density supplement for the prior fiscal year, to extend the provisions limiting reductions in grants to priority school districts, to add provision requiring grants to priority school districts to at least maintain the amount of aid per student that was received under the grant for the prior fiscal year and to add provision limiting reductions in grants to transitional school districts, effective July 1, 1999; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to designate portions of existing provisions as Subparas. (A) to (L), to use the term target aid in place of language in former Subparas. (A) to (C) that was identical to the definition of target aid, to substitute “capped” for “adjusted”, to add Subpara. (M) re fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, and Subpara. (N) re fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 2001; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by adding new Subpara. (O) re hold harmless provision for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, effective August 15, 2002; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to extend cap in Subparas. (B) and (C), to end density supplement in Subpara. (G), to end hold harmless provision for priority school districts in Subpara. (J) and to add Subparas. (P) and (Q) re grant calculations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2004, and June 30, 2005, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-254 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by removing the cap in Subparas. (B) and (C), by restoring the density supplement in Subpara. (G) and by amending Subpara. (Q) re grants for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, by providing that no town shall receive a grant less than 60% of any grant previously received, each town shall receive a grant at least equal to the previous year plus a percentage increase, grants associated with priority school districts shall be at least $370 per student and no town shall receive less than it did for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, increased by 0.07%, except that Winchester shall receive at least its fixed entitlement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 05-2 amended Subsec. (a)(6)(Q)(iv) to change percentage increase in grant from 0.07% to 0.7%, effective March 22, 2005; P.A. 05-245 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by adding Subpara. (R) re grant amount for fiscal years ending June 30, 2006, and June 30, 2007, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-135 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by providing in Subpara. (R), for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, that no town shall receive less than 60% of its target aid and by adding Subpara. (S) requiring that, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, and each fiscal year thereafter, each town shall be held harmless and shall receive at least 60% of its target aid, effective July 1, 2006; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to provide that provision in Subpara. (G) applies to fiscal years prior to fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, revise Subpara. (S) to terminate provision with fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, and replace former hold-harmless provision with language providing grant in amount that is the sum of town's base aid and 17.31% of difference between town's fully funded grant and its base aid, except that no town shall receive less than it did for fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, increased by 4.4%, and add Subpara. (T) to provide grant for fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, in amount that is the sum of town's base aid and 23.3% of the difference between town's fully funded grant and its base aid, except that no town shall receive less than it did for fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, increased by 4.4%, effective July 1, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 amended Subsec. (a)(6)(S)(ii) to add language re adjustment of per cent for all towns, effective October 6, 2007; P.A. 08-170 amended Subsec. (a)(6)(T)(ii) to change 23.3% to 22.02% and to provide that percentage shall be adjusted for all towns so that no town receives a grant in an amount less than in fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, effective July 1, 2008; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 added Subsec. (c) specifying equalization grants for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, effective September 9, 2009; P.A. 10-151 amended Subsec. (c)(3) by replacing “pursuant to this subsection” with “for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009”, effective June 8, 2010; P.A. 11-6 added Subsec. (d) specifying equalization grants for fiscal years ending June 20, 2012, and June 30, 2013, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-116 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by adding “the sum of any amounts paid to the town pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (d) and subsection (l) of section 10-66ee” and adding “of target aid” re capped amount and amended Subsec. (d) by making existing provision applicable to fiscal year 2012 and adding provision re equalization aid grant amount for fiscal year 2013 in Subdiv. (1) and changing fiscal year 2013 grant amounts for certain towns in Subdiv. (2), effective July 1, 2012; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 amended Subsecs. (a)(6) and (d)(1) by deleting references to “subsection (l)” of Sec. 10-66ee, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-247 replaced former provisions with new Subsec. (a) re equalization aid grant for fiscal year 2014 and new Subsec. (b) re equalization aid grant for fiscal year 2015, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-47 replaced former Subsecs. (a) and (b) re calculations for determining grants with new Subsecs. (a) and (b) re grant amounts for fiscal years ending June 30, 2014, and June 30, 2015, effective May 29, 2014; P.A. 15-244 added Subsec. (c) re grant amounts for fiscal years ending June 30, 2016, and June 30, 2017, effective July 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 deleted former Subsecs. (a) to (c), added new Subsec. (a) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2018, added new Subsec. (b) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2019, added new Subsec. (c) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal years 2020 to 2027, and added new Subsec. (d) re equalization aid grant calculations for fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter, effective October 31, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (c) by replacing “to June 30, 2027, inclusive” with “and June 30, 2021”, added new Subsec. (d) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, added Subsec. (e) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal years 2024 to 2027, added Subsec. (f) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal years 2028 and 2029, and redesignated existing Subsec. (d) as Subsec. (g) and amended same by replacing “June 30, 2028” with “June 30, 2030”, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-118 amended Subsec. (d) by replacing “fiscal years ending June 30, 2022, and June 30, 2023” with “fiscal year ending June 30, 2022”, deleted former Subsec. (e) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal years 2024 to 2027, added new Subsec. (e) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2023, added new Subsec. (f) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2024, added new Subsec. (g) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2025, added Subsec. (h) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2026, added Subsec. (i) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2027, added Subsec. (j) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2028, redesignated existing Subsec. (f) as Subsec. (k) and amended same by replacing “fiscal years ending June 30, 2028, and June 30, 2029” with “fiscal year ending June 30, 2029”, replacing “base grant amount” with “equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year” in Subdiv. (1), replacing “base grant amount” with “equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year” and “eight and thirty-three-one-hundredths” with “fifty” and deleting exception re towns designated alliance districts entitled to its base grant amount in Subdiv. (2) and adding Subdiv. (3) re equalization aid grant entitlement for towns designated alliance districts, and redesignated existing Subsec. (g) as Subsec. (l) and amended same by replacing provision re towns designated alliance districts whose fully funded grant is less than its base grant amount entitled to its base grant amount with provision re equalization aid grant entitlement for towns designated alliance districts, effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 23-204 amended Subsec. (f)(2) by replacing “its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year minus fourteen and twenty-nine-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment” with “the amount the town was entitled to for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023”, amended Subsec. (g)(2) by replacing “twenty-five per cent” with “fifty-six and five tenths per cent” and replacing “its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year minus sixteen and sixty-seven-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment” with “the amount the town was entitled to for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024”, amended Subsec. (h) by replacing “equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year plus thirty-three and thirty-three-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment” with “fully funded grant” in Subdiv. (1) and replacing “twenty per cent” with “fourteen and twenty-nine-one-hundredths per cent” in Subdiv. (2), amended Subsec. (i) by replacing “equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year plus fifty per cent of its grant adjustment” with “fully funded grant” in Subdiv. (1) and replacing “twenty-five per cent” with “sixteen and sixty-seven-one-hundredths per cent” in Subdiv. (2), amended Subsec. (j)(2) by replacing “thirty-three and thirty-three-one-hundredths per cent” with “twenty per cent”, amended Subsec. (k)(2) by replacing “fifty per cent” with “twenty-five per cent”, added new Subsec. (l) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2030, added Subsec. (m) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2031, and redesignated existing Subsec. (l) as Subsec. (n) and amended same by replacing “June 30, 2030” with “June 30, 2032”, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-262s. Authority of Commissioner of Education to transfer funds appropriated for Sheff settlement to certain grant programs and voluntary interdistrict programs. (a) 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.
(b) 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, award grants with funds appropriated for the Sheff settlement for academic and social student support programs for the following voluntary interdistrict programs: (1) Interdistrict cooperative programs pursuant to section 10-74d, (2) the interdistrict public school attendance program pursuant to section 10-266aa, (3) interdistrict magnet school programs pursuant to section 10-264l, and (4) the Technical Education and Career System.
(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; P.A. 23-160, S. 33; 23-204, S. 334.)
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; P.A. 23-204 made identical changes as P.A. 23-160, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-262u. Alliance districts. (a) As used in this section and section 10-262i:
(1) “Alliance district” means a school district for a town that (A) is among the towns with the thirty-three lowest accountability index scores, as calculated by the Department of Education, or (B) was previously designated as an alliance district by the Commissioner of Education for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2013, to June 30, 2022, inclusive.
(2) “Accountability index” has the same meaning as provided in section 10-223e.
(3) “Mastery test data of record” has the same meaning as provided in section 10-262f.
(4) “Educational reform district” means an alliance district that is among the ten lowest accountability index scores when all towns are ranked highest to lowest in accountability index scores.
(b) (1) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, the Commissioner of Education shall designate thirty school districts as alliance districts. Any school district designated as an alliance district shall be so designated for a period of five years. On or before June 30, 2016, the Department of Education shall determine if there are any additional alliance districts.
(2) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, the commissioner shall designate thirty-three school districts as alliance districts. Any school district designated as an alliance district shall be so designated for a period of five years.
(3) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, the commissioner shall designate thirty-six school districts as alliance districts. Any school district designated as an alliance district shall be so designated for a period of five years.
(c) (1) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Comptroller shall withhold from any town that (A) was designated as an alliance district pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of this section any increase in funds received over the amount the town received for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10-262i, and (B) was designated as an alliance district for the first time pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of this section, any increase in funds received over the amount the town received for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10-262i. The Comptroller shall transfer such funds to the Commissioner of Education.
(2) Upon receipt of an application pursuant to subsection (d) of this section or section 10-156gg, the Commissioner of Education may pay such funds to the town designated as an alliance district and such town shall pay all such funds to the local or regional board of education for such town on the condition that such funds shall be expended in accordance with (A) the improvement plan described in subsection (d) of this section, (B) the minority candidate certification, retention or residency year program pursuant to section 10-156gg, (C) the provisions of subsection (c) of section 10-262i, and (D) any guidelines developed by the State Board of Education for such funds. Such funds shall be used to improve student achievement and recruit and retain minority teachers in such alliance district and to offset any other local education costs approved by the commissioner.
(d) The local or regional board of education for a town designated as an alliance district may apply to the Commissioner of Education, at such time and in such manner as the commissioner prescribes, to receive any increase in funds received over the amount the town received for the prior fiscal year pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10-262i. Applications pursuant to this subsection shall include objectives and performance targets and an improvement plan that are developed, in part, on the strategic use of student academic performance data. Such improvement plan may include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) A tiered system of interventions for the schools under the jurisdiction of such board based on the needs of such schools, (2) ways to strengthen the foundational programs in reading, through the intensive reading instruction program pursuant to section 10-14u, to ensure reading mastery in kindergarten to grade three, inclusive, with a focus on standards and instruction, proper use of data, intervention strategies, current information for teachers, parental engagement, and teacher professional development, (3) additional learning time, including extended school day or school year programming administered by school personnel or external partners, (4) a talent strategy that includes, but is not limited to, teacher and school leader recruitment and assignment, career ladder policies that draw upon guidelines for a teacher evaluation program adopted by the State Board of Education, pursuant to section 10-151b, and adopted by each local or regional board of education. Such talent strategy may include provisions that demonstrate increased ability to attract, retain, promote and bolster the performance of staff in accordance with performance evaluation findings and, in the case of new personnel, other indicators of effectiveness, (5) training for school leaders and other staff on new teacher evaluation models, (6) provisions for the cooperation and coordination with early childhood education providers to ensure alignment with district expectations for student entry into kindergarten, including funding for an existing local Head Start program, (7) provisions for the cooperation and coordination with other governmental and community programs to ensure that students receive adequate support and wraparound services, including community school models, (8) provisions for implementing and furthering state-wide education standards adopted by the State Board of Education and all activities and initiatives associated with such standards, (9) strategies for attracting and recruiting minority teachers and administrators, (10) provisions for the enhancement of bilingual education programs, pursuant to section 10-17f, or other language acquisition services to multilingual learners, (11) entering into the model school district responsibilities agreement, described in section 10-223l, (12) leadership succession plans that provide training and learning opportunities for administrators and are designed to assist in the seamless transition of school and district personnel in and out of leadership positions in the school district and the continuous implementation of improvement plans developed under this subsection, (13) implementing the policy adopted pursuant to section 10-223m to improve completion rates of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid by students enrolled in grade twelve in a high school under the jurisdiction of such board or students enrolled in an adult education program maintained by such board pursuant to section 10-69, and, as applicable, the parent and guardians of such students, and (14) any additional categories or goals as determined by the commissioner. Such improvement plan shall demonstrate collaboration with key stakeholders, as identified by the commissioner, with the goal of achieving efficiencies and the alignment of intent and practice of current programs with conditional programs identified in this subsection. The commissioner may (A) require changes in any improvement plan submitted by a local or regional board of education before the commissioner approves an application under this subsection, and (B) permit a local or regional board of education, as part of such improvement plan, to use a portion of any funds received under this section for the purposes of paying tuition charged to such board pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (k) of section 10-264l or subsection (b) of section 10-264o. Each such local and regional board of education shall annually submit such improvement plan to the department.
(e) The State Board of Education may develop guidelines and criteria for the administration of such funds under this section.
(f) The commissioner may withhold such funds if the local or regional board of education fails to comply with the provisions of this section. The commissioner may renew such funding if the local or regional board of education provides evidence that the school district of such board is achieving the objectives and performance targets approved by the commissioner stated in the improvement plan submitted under this section.
(g) Any local or regional board of education receiving funding under this section shall submit an annual expenditure report to the commissioner on such form and in such manner as requested by the commissioner. The commissioner shall determine if (1) the local or regional board of education shall repay any funds not expended in accordance with the approved application, or (2) such funding should be reduced in a subsequent fiscal year up to an amount equal to the amount that the commissioner determines is out of compliance with the provisions of this subsection.
(h) Any balance remaining for each local or regional board of education at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward for such local or regional board of education for the next fiscal year.
(P.A. 12-116, S. 34; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 22; P.A. 13-31, S. 23; 13-245, S. 18; 13-247, S. 155; P.A. 14-217, S. 114; P.A. 15-108, S. 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 296, 327; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 126; P.A. 17-215, S. 3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 224; P.A. 21-199, S. 7; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 379; P.A. 22-118, S. 266; P.A. 23-150, S. 33; 23-159, S. 26; 23-167, S. 4; 23-208, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 12-116 effective July 1, 2012; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 amended Subsec. (c)(2) by replacing “award” with “pay”, adding “town designated as an alliance district and such town shall pay such funds to the” and replacing “an alliance district” with “such town”, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-31 made a technical change in Subsec. (g), effective May 28, 2013; P.A. 13-245 amended Subsec. (d)(2) by adding reference to the intensive reading instruction program, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-247 amended Subsec. (c)(1) by designating existing provisions as Subpara. (A) and amending same by deleting “and each fiscal year thereafter” and adding Subpara. (B) re withholding from town any increase of funds over amount received for fiscal year 2012 during fiscal years 2014 and 2015, and amended Subsec. (d) by replacing “section 10-262h” with “subsection (a) of section 10-262i”, adding new Subdiv. (8) re implementing and furthering state-wide education standards adopted by State Board of Education and redesignating existing Subdiv. (8) as Subdiv. (9), effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-217 amended Subsec. (c)(2) by adding “all” to provision re town to pay funds to board of education and adding reference to Sec. 10-262i(c) to provision re same, and amended Subsec. (d) by designating existing provision re required changes to plan before commissioner approves application as Subpara. (A) and adding Subpara. (B) re use of funds to pay tuition, effective June 13, 2014; P.A. 15-108 amended Subsec. (d) by adding new Subdiv. (9) re strategies for attracting and recruiting minority teachers and administrators and redesignating existing Subdiv. (9) as Subdiv. (10), effective July 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 amended Subsec. (a) by redefining “alliance district” in Subdiv. (1), deleting former Subdivs. (2) to (6) re definitions of “district performance index”, “district subject performance index for mathematics”, “district subject performance index for reading”, “district subject performance index for writing” and “district subject performance index for science”, adding new Subdivs. (2) and (3) re definitions of “accountability index” and “mastery test data of record”, and redesignating existing Subdiv. (7) as new Subdiv. (4) and amending same by redefining “educational reform district”, and amended Subsec. (c)(1)(B) by extending applicability of provisions to fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, and amended Subsec. (d) by adding new Subdiv. (10) re bilingual education programs and English language learners and redesignating existing Subdiv. (10) as Subdiv. (11), effective July 1, 2015; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 amended Subsec. (c)(1) by replacing “2017” with “2016”, and adding Subpara. (C) re Comptroller to withhold increase in funds minus aid reduction, effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 17-215 amended Subsec. (d) by adding “are developed, in part, on the strategic use of student academic performance data. Such plan”, adding new Subdiv. (11) re model school district responsibilities agreement, adding Subdiv. (12) re leadership succession plans, and redesignating existing Subdiv. (11) re additional categories or goals as Subdiv. (13), effective July 1, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by redefining “alliance district”, amended Subsec. (b) by designating existing provisions re fiscal year ending June 30, 2013 as Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (2) re commissioner to designate thirty-three school districts as alliance districts for fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, and amended Subsec. (c)(1) by adding Subpara. (D) re Comptroller to withhold increase in funds for fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, and each fiscal year thereafter, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 21-199 amended Subsec. (d) by adding new Subdiv. (13) re implementing policy adopted pursuant to Sec. 10-223m, and designating existing Subdiv. (13) re additional categories or goals determined by commissioner as Subdiv. (14), effective July 1, 2021; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (c)(2) by adding “or section 10-156gg” and “and recruit and retain minority teachers” and designating existing provision re plan described in Subsec. (d) as Subpara. (A), adding Subpara. (B) re minority candidate certification, retention or residency year program, and designating provisions re provisions of Sec. 10-262i(c) and guidelines developed by State Board of Education as Subparas. (C) and (D) respectively, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-118 amended Subsec. (a) by redefining “alliance district” in Subdiv. (1) and “educational reform district” in Subdiv. (4), amended Subsec. (b) by adding Subdiv. (3) re commissioner to designate 36 school districts as alliance districts for fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and amended Subsec. (c)(1) by deleting former Subparas. (A) to (C) and the Subpara. (D) designator, making remaining provisions applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and each fiscal year thereafter, designating existing provision as new Subpara. (A) and amended same by replacing “a town designated as an alliance district” with “any town that (A) was designated as an alliance district pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of this section” and adding new Subpara. (B) re alliance districts designated for the first time, effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 23-150 amended Subsec. (d)(10) by replacing “English language” with “multilingual” and deleting provision re participation in the English language learner pilot program, effective July 1, 2023; P.A. 23-159 amended Subsec. (d)(4) by deleting “model”, effective July 1, 2023; P.A. 23-167 amended Subsec. (c)(2) by replacing “the plan” with “the improvement plan” in Subpara. (A), adding new Subpara. (C) re establishment of a family resource center in each elementary school and redesignating existing Subparas. (C) and (D) as Subparas. (D) and (E), amended Subsec. (d) by adding references to the improvement plan and adding provision re submission of improvement plan to department, and amended Subsec. (f) to add reference to the improvement plan, effective July 1, 2023; P.A. 23-208 amended Subsec. (c)(2) by deleting former Subpara. (C) re establishment of a family resource center in each elementary school and redesignating existing Subpara. (E) as Subpara. (D), effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-262v. Publication of alliance district improvement plans. The Department of Education shall publish on its Internet web site the improvement plan submitted pursuant to subsection (d) of section 10-262u for each local or regional board of education for a town designated as an alliance district pursuant to said section 10-262u.
(P.A. 23-167, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 23-167 effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-262w. Report re effectiveness of alliance district program. Recommendations re reforming program. (a) The Commissioner of Education shall develop a report of the effectiveness of the alliance district program, described in section 10-262u, and recommendations for reforming such program.
(b) (1) Such report shall include, but need not be limited to, (A) an analysis of the effectiveness of the alliance district program for improving student academic achievement and school district performance, (B) the oversight and accountability metrics and standards used to measure such student academic achievement and school district performance, as well as the metrics and standards used to conduct such analysis of the program, (C) a financial accounting of the program that examines the amount of funding provided to each alliance district during the existence of the program, how such funds have been expended, and whether (i) such funds have been expended in accordance with the improvement plans described in subsection (d) of section 10-262u, and (ii) there is a causal link between the expenditure of such funds in accordance with such improvement plans and an improvement of student academic achievement and school district performance.
(2) Such recommendations shall include, but need not be limited to, an implementation plan, developed in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, for decreasing the total number of alliance districts on or before July 1, 2027, that will receive oversight and assistance from the Department of Education under the program and how resources and funding may best be expended to assist alliance districts in improving student academic achievement and school district performance.
(c) Not later than January 1, 2026, the commissioner shall submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a.
(P.A. 23-208, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 23-208 effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-264l. Grants for the operation of interdistrict magnet school programs. Transportation. Enrollment of students; notice. Special education; Section 504 plans. Financial audits. Tuition. (a) The Department of Education shall, within available appropriations, establish a grant program (1) to assist (A) local and regional boards of education, (B) regional educational service centers, (C) the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges on behalf of Quinebaug Valley Community College and Three Rivers Community College, and (D) cooperative arrangements pursuant to section 10-158a, and (2) in assisting 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, to assist (A) the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges on behalf of a regional community-technical college, (B) the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System on behalf of a state university, (C) the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut on behalf of the university, (D) 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, and (E) any other third-party not-for-profit corporation approved by the commissioner with the operation of interdistrict magnet school programs. All interdistrict magnet schools shall be operated in conformance with the same laws and regulations applicable to public schools. For the purposes of this section “an interdistrict magnet school program” means a program which (i) supports racial, ethnic and economic diversity, (ii) offers a special and high quality curriculum, and (iii) requires students who are enrolled to attend at least half-time. An interdistrict magnet school program does not include a regional agricultural science and technology school, a technical education and career school or a regional special education center. For the school year commencing July 1, 2017, and each school year thereafter, the governing authority for each interdistrict magnet school program shall (I) restrict the number of students that may enroll in the school from a participating district to seventy-five per cent of the total school enrollment, and (II) maintain a total school enrollment that is in accordance with the reduced-isolation setting standards for interdistrict magnet school programs, developed by the Commissioner of Education pursuant to section 10-264r.
(b) (1) Applications for interdistrict magnet school program operating grants awarded pursuant to this section shall be submitted annually to the Commissioner of Education at such time and in such manner as the commissioner prescribes, except that on and after July 1, 2009, applications for such operating grants for new interdistrict magnet schools, other than those that the commissioner determines will 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, shall not be accepted until the commissioner develops a comprehensive state-wide interdistrict magnet school plan. The commissioner shall submit such comprehensive state-wide interdistrict magnet school plan on or before October 1, 2016, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education and appropriations.
(2) In determining whether an application shall be approved and funds awarded pursuant to this section, the commissioner shall consider, but such consideration shall not be limited to: (A) Whether the program offered by the school is likely to increase student achievement; (B) whether the program is likely to reduce racial, ethnic and economic isolation; (C) the percentage of the student enrollment in the program from each participating district; and (D) the proposed operating budget and the sources of funding for the interdistrict magnet school. For a magnet school not operated by a local or regional board of education, the commissioner shall only approve a proposed operating budget that, on a per pupil basis, does not exceed the maximum allowable threshold established in accordance with this subdivision. The maximum allowable threshold shall be an amount equal to one hundred twenty per cent of the state average of the quotient obtained by dividing net current expenditures, as defined in section 10-261, by average daily membership, as defined in said section, for the fiscal year two years prior to the fiscal year for which the operating grant is requested. The Department of Education shall establish the maximum allowable threshold no later than December fifteenth of the fiscal year prior to the fiscal year for which the operating grant is requested. If requested by an applicant that is not a local or regional board of education, the commissioner may approve a proposed operating budget that exceeds the maximum allowable threshold if the commissioner determines that there are extraordinary programmatic needs. For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2017, June 30, 2018, June 30, 2020, and June 30, 2021, in the case of an interdistrict magnet school that will 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, the commissioner shall also consider whether the school is meeting the reduced-isolation setting standards for interdistrict magnet school programs, developed by the commissioner pursuant to section 10-264r. If such school has not met such reduced-isolation setting standards, it shall not be entitled to receive a grant pursuant to this section unless the commissioner finds that it is appropriate to award a grant for an additional year or years and approves a plan to bring such school into compliance with such reduced-isolation setting standards. If requested by the commissioner, the applicant shall meet with the commissioner or the commissioner's designee to discuss the budget and sources of funding.
(3) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2018, to June 30, 2025, inclusive, the commissioner shall not award a grant to an interdistrict magnet school program that (A) has more than seventy-five per cent of the total school enrollment from one school district, or (B) does not maintain a total school enrollment that is in accordance with the reduced-isolation setting standards for interdistrict magnet school programs, developed by the Commissioner of Education pursuant to section 10-264r, except the commissioner may award a grant to such school for an additional year or years if the commissioner finds it is appropriate to do so and approves a plan to bring such school into compliance with such residency or reduced-isolation setting standards.
(4) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2018, to June 30, 2021, inclusive, if an interdistrict magnet school program does not maintain a total school enrollment that is in accordance with the reduced-isolation setting standards for interdistrict magnet school programs, developed by the commissioner pursuant to section 10-264r, for two or more consecutive years, the commissioner may impose a financial penalty on the operator of such interdistrict magnet school program, or take any other measure, in consultation with such operator, as may be appropriate to assist such operator in complying with such reduced-isolation setting standards.
(c) (1) The maximum amount each interdistrict magnet school program, except those described in subparagraphs (A) to (G), inclusive, of subdivision (3) of this subsection, shall be eligible to receive per enrolled student who is not a resident of the town operating the magnet school shall be (A) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, seven thousand two hundred twenty-seven dollars, and (B) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at least seven thousand two hundred twenty-seven dollars. The per pupil grant for each enrolled student who is a resident of the town operating the magnet school program shall be (i) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, three thousand sixty dollars, and (ii) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at least three thousand sixty dollars.
(2) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, and each fiscal year thereafter, the commissioner may, within available appropriations, provide supplemental grants for the purposes of enhancing educational programs in such interdistrict magnet schools, as the commissioner determines. Such grants shall be made after the commissioner has conducted a comprehensive financial review and approved the total operating budget for such schools, including all revenue and expenditure estimates.
(3) (A) Except as otherwise provided in subparagraphs (C) to (G), inclusive, of this subdivision, each interdistrict magnet school operated by a regional educational service center that enrolls less than fifty-five per cent of the school's students from a single town shall receive a per pupil grant in the amount of (i) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, eight thousand fifty-eight dollars, and (ii) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at least eight thousand fifty-eight dollars.
(B) Except as otherwise provided in subparagraphs (C) to (G), inclusive, of this subdivision, each interdistrict magnet school operated by a regional educational service center that enrolls at least fifty-five per cent of the school's students from a single town shall receive a per pupil grant for each enrolled student who is not a resident of the district that enrolls at least fifty-five per cent of the school's students in the amount of (i) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, seven thousand two hundred twenty-seven dollars, and (ii) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at least seven thousand two hundred twenty-seven dollars. The per pupil grant for each enrolled student who is a resident of the district that enrolls at least fifty-five per cent of the school's students shall be (I) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, three thousand sixty dollars, and (II) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at least three thousand sixty dollars.
(C) (i) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2019, inclusive, each interdistrict magnet school operated by a regional educational service center that began operations for the school year commencing July 1, 2001, and that for the school year commencing July 1, 2008, enrolled at least fifty-five per cent, but no more than eighty per cent of the school's students from a single town, shall receive a per pupil grant (I) for each enrolled student who is a resident of the district that enrolls at least fifty-five per cent, but no more than eighty per cent of the school's students, up to an amount equal to the total number of such enrolled students as of October 1, 2013, using the data of record, in the amount of eight thousand one hundred eighty dollars, (II) for each enrolled student who is a resident of the district that enrolls at least fifty-five per cent, but not more than eighty per cent of the school's students, in an amount greater than the total number of such enrolled students as of October 1, 2013, using the data of record, in the amount of three thousand dollars, (III) for each enrolled student who is not a resident of the district that enrolls at least fifty-five per cent, but no more than eighty per cent of the school's students, up to an amount equal to the total number of such enrolled students as of October 1, 2013, using the data of record, in the amount of eight thousand one hundred eighty dollars, and (IV) for each enrolled student who is not a resident of the district that enrolls at least fifty-five per cent, but not more than eighty per cent of the school's students, in an amount greater than the total number of such enrolled students as of October 1, 2013, using the data of record, in the amount of seven thousand eighty-five dollars.
(ii) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2022, inclusive, each interdistrict magnet school operated by a regional educational service center that began operations for the school year commencing July 1, 2001, and that for the school year commencing July 1, 2008, enrolled at least fifty-five per cent, but not more than eighty per cent of the school's students from a single town, shall receive a per pupil grant (I) for each enrolled student who is a resident of the district that enrolls at least fifty-five per cent, but not more than eighty per cent of the school's students, up to an amount equal to the total number of such enrolled students as of October 1, 2013, using the data of record, in the amount of eight thousand three hundred forty-four dollars, (II) for each enrolled student who is a resident of the district that enrolls at least fifty-five per cent, but not more than eighty per cent of the school's students, in an amount greater than the total number of such enrolled students as of October 1, 2013, using the data of record, in the amount of three thousand sixty dollars, (III) for each enrolled student who is not a resident of the district that enrolls at least fifty-five per cent, but no more than eighty per cent of the school's students, up to an amount equal to the total number of such enrolled students as of October 1, 2013, using the data of record, in the amount of eight thousand three hundred forty-four dollars, and (IV) for each enrolled student who is not a resident of the district that enrolls at least fifty-five per cent, but not more than eighty per cent of the school's students, in an amount greater than the total number of such enrolled students as of October 1, 2013, using the data of record, in the amount of seven thousand two hundred twenty-seven dollars.
(D) (i) Except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (D)(ii) of this subdivision, each interdistrict magnet school operated by (I) a regional educational service center, (II) the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges on behalf of a regional community-technical college, (III) the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System on behalf of a state university, (IV) the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut on behalf of the university, (V) 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, except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (E) of this subdivision, (VI) cooperative arrangements pursuant to section 10-158a, (VII) any other third-party not-for-profit corporation approved by the commissioner, and (VIII) the Hartford school district for the operation of Great Path Academy on behalf of Manchester Community College, that enrolls less than sixty per cent of its students from Hartford shall receive a per pupil grant in the amount of ten thousand six hundred fifty-two dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and at least ten thousand six hundred fifty-two dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, except the commissioner may make grants under this subparagraph to an interdistrict magnet school operator described in this subparagraph that enrolls more than sixty per cent of its students from Hartford.
(ii) Any interdistrict magnet school described in subparagraph (D)(i) of this subdivision that enrolls less than fifty per cent of its incoming students from Hartford shall receive a per pupil grant (I) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, in the amount of eight thousand fifty-eight dollars for one-half of the total number of non-Hartford students enrolled in the school over fifty per cent of the total school enrollment and shall receive a per pupil grant in the amount of ten thousand six hundred fifty-two dollars for the remainder of the total school enrollment, and (II) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, in the amount of at least eight thousand fifty-eight dollars for one-half of the total number of non-Hartford students enrolled in the school over fifty per cent of the total school enrollment and shall receive a per pupil grant in the amount of at least ten thousand six hundred fifty-two dollars for the remainder of the total school enrollment, except the commissioner may, upon the written request of an operator of such school, waive such fifty per cent enrollment minimum for good cause.
(E) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, and each fiscal year thereafter, each interdistrict magnet school operated by 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, that (i) began operations for the school year commencing July 1, 2014, (ii) enrolls less than sixty per cent of its students from Hartford 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, and (iii) enrolls students at least half-time, shall be eligible to receive a per pupil grant (I) equal to sixty-five per cent of the grant amount determined pursuant to subparagraph (D) of this subdivision for each student who is enrolled at such school for at least two semesters in each school year, and (II) equal to thirty-two and one-half per cent of the grant amount determined pursuant to subparagraph (D) of this subdivision for each student who is enrolled at such school for one semester in each school year.
(F) Each interdistrict magnet school operated by a local or regional board of education, pursuant to the decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, shall receive a per pupil grant for each enrolled student who is not a resident of the district in the amount of (i) thirteen thousand three hundred fifteen dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and (ii) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at least thirteen thousand three hundred fifteen dollars.
(G) In addition to the grants described in subparagraph (E) of this subdivision, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, the commissioner may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and the Finance Advisory Committee, established pursuant to section 4-93, provide supplemental grants to the Hartford school district of up to one thousand fifty-four dollars for each student enrolled at an interdistrict magnet school operated by the Hartford school district who is not a resident of such district.
(H) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, and each fiscal year thereafter, the half-day Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts interdistrict magnet school operated by the Capital Region Education Council shall be eligible to receive a per pupil grant equal to sixty-five per cent of the per pupil grant specified in subparagraph (A) of this subdivision.
(I) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2016, to June 30, 2018, inclusive, the half-day Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science interdistrict magnet school operated by the Capitol Region Education Council shall be eligible to receive a per pupil grant equal to six thousand seven hundred eighty-seven dollars for (i) students enrolled in grades ten to twelve, inclusive, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, (ii) students enrolled in grades eleven and twelve for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, and (iii) students enrolled in grade twelve for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, and each fiscal year thereafter, the half-day Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science interdistrict magnet school shall not be eligible for any additional grants pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.
(4) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, and June 30, 2016, the department may limit payment to an interdistrict magnet school operator to an amount equal to the grant that such magnet school operator was eligible to receive based on the enrollment level of the interdistrict magnet school program on October 1, 2013. Approval of funding for enrollment above such enrollment level shall be prioritized by the department as follows: (A) Increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program that is adding planned new grade levels for the school years commencing July 1, 2015, and July 1, 2016; (B) increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program that added planned new grade levels for the school year commencing July 1, 2014, and was funded during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015; (C) increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program that is moving into a permanent facility for the school years commencing July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2016, inclusive; (D) increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program to ensure compliance with subsection (a) of this section; and (E) new enrollments for a new interdistrict magnet school program commencing operations on or after July 1, 2014, 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. Any interdistrict magnet school program operating less than full-time, but at least half-time, shall be eligible to receive a grant equal to sixty-five per cent of the grant amount determined pursuant to this subsection.
(5) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, the department may limit payment to an interdistrict magnet school operator to an amount equal to the grant that such magnet school operator was eligible to receive based on the enrollment level of the interdistrict magnet school program on October 1, 2013, or October 1, 2015, whichever is lower. Approval of funding for enrollment above such enrollment level shall be prioritized by the department as follows: (A) Increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program that is adding planned new grade levels for the school years commencing July 1, 2015, and July 1, 2016; (B) increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program that added planned new grade levels for the school year commencing July 1, 2014, and was funded during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015; (C) increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program that added planned new grade levels for the school year commencing July 1, 2015, and was funded during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016; and (D) increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program to ensure compliance with subsection (a) of this section. Any interdistrict magnet school program operating less than full-time, but at least half-time, shall be eligible to receive a grant equal to sixty-five per cent of the grant amount determined pursuant to this subsection.
(6) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, and within available appropriations, the department may limit payment to an interdistrict magnet school operator to an amount equal to the grant that such magnet school operator was eligible to receive based on the enrollment level of the interdistrict magnet school program on October 1, 2013, October 1, 2015, or October 1, 2016, whichever is lower. Approval of funding for enrollment above such enrollment level shall be prioritized by the department and subject to the commissioner's approval, including increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program as a result of planned and approved new grade levels. Any interdistrict magnet school program operating less than full-time, but at least half-time, shall be eligible to receive a grant equal to sixty-five per cent of the grant amount determined pursuant to this subsection.
(7) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, and within available appropriations, the department may limit payment to an interdistrict magnet school operator to an amount equal to the grant that such magnet school operator was eligible to receive based on the enrollment level of the interdistrict magnet school program on October 1, 2013, October 1, 2015, October 1, 2016, or October 1, 2017, whichever is lower. Approval of funding for enrollment above such enrollment level shall be prioritized by the department and subject to the commissioner's approval, including increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program as a result of planned and approved new grade levels. Any interdistrict magnet school program operating less than full-time, but at least half-time, shall be eligible to receive a grant equal to sixty-five per cent of the grant amount determined pursuant to this subsection.
(8) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, and within available appropriations, the department may limit payment to an interdistrict magnet school operator to an amount equal to the grant that such magnet school operator was eligible to receive based on the enrollment level of the interdistrict magnet school program on October 1, 2013, October 1, 2015, October 1, 2016, October 1, 2017, or October 1, 2018, whichever is lower. Approval of funding for enrollment above such enrollment level shall be prioritized by the department and subject to the commissioner's approval, including increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program as a result of planned and approved new grade levels. Any interdistrict magnet school program operating less than full-time, but at least half-time, shall be eligible to receive a grant equal to sixty-five per cent of the grant amount determined pursuant to this subsection.
(9) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021, and within available appropriations, the department may limit payment to an interdistrict magnet school operator to an amount equal to the grant that such magnet school operator was eligible to receive based on the enrollment level of the interdistrict magnet school program on October 1, 2013, October 1, 2015, October 1, 2016, October 1, 2017, October 1, 2018, or October 1, 2019, whichever is lower. Approval of funding for enrollment above such enrollment level shall be prioritized by the department and subject to the commissioner's approval, including increases in enrollment in an interdistrict magnet school program as a result of planned and approved new grade levels. Any interdistrict magnet school program operating less than full-time, but at least half-time, shall be eligible to receive a grant equal to sixty-five per cent of the grant amount determined pursuant to this subsection.
(10) Within available appropriations, the commissioner may make grants to the following entities that operate an interdistrict magnet school that assists 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 and that provide academic support programs and summer school educational programs approved by the commissioner to students participating in such interdistrict magnet school program: (A) Regional educational service centers, (B) local and regional boards of education, (C) the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges on behalf of a regional community-technical college, (D) the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System on behalf of a state university, (E) the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut on behalf of the university, (F) 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, (G) cooperative arrangements pursuant to section 10-158a, and (H) any other third-party not-for-profit corporation approved by the commissioner.
(11) Within available appropriations, the Commissioner of Education may make grants, in an amount not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars, for start-up costs associated with the development of new interdistrict magnet school programs that 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, to the following entities that develop such a program: (A) Regional educational service centers, (B) local and regional boards of education, (C) the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges on behalf of a regional community-technical college, (D) the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System on behalf of a state university, (E) the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut on behalf of the university, (F) 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, (G) cooperative arrangements pursuant to section 10-158a, and (H) any other third-party not-for-profit corporation approved by the commissioner.
(12) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and each fiscal year thereafter, the department shall make grants determined pursuant to this subsection within available appropriations, and in no case shall the total grant paid to an interdistrict magnet school operator pursuant to this section exceed the aggregate total of the reasonable operating budgets of the interdistrict magnet school programs of such operator, less revenues from other sources.
(13) Any interdistrict magnet school program operating less than full-time, but at least half-time, shall be eligible to receive a grant equal to sixty-five per cent of the grant amount determined pursuant to this subsection.
(d) (1) Grants made pursuant to this section, except those made pursuant to subdivision (7) of subsection (c) of this section and subdivision (2) of this subsection, shall be paid as follows: Seventy per cent not later than September first and the balance not later than May first of each fiscal year. The May first payment shall be adjusted to reflect actual interdistrict magnet school program enrollment as of the preceding October first using the data of record as of the intervening January thirty-first, if the actual level of enrollment is lower than the projected enrollment stated in the approved grant application. The May first payment shall be further adjusted for the difference between the total grant received by the magnet school operator in the prior fiscal year and the revised total grant amount calculated for the prior fiscal year in cases where the aggregate financial audit submitted by the interdistrict magnet school operator pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (n) of this section indicates an overpayment by the department. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section to the contrary, grants made pursuant to this section may be paid to each interdistrict magnet school operator as an aggregate total of the amount that the interdistrict magnet schools operated by each such operator are eligible to receive under this section. Each interdistrict magnet school operator may distribute such aggregate grant among the interdistrict magnet school programs that such operator is operating pursuant to a distribution plan approved by the Commissioner of Education.
(2) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, and each fiscal year thereafter, grants made pursuant to subparagraph (E) of subdivision (3) of subsection (c) of this section shall be paid as follows: Fifty per cent of the amount not later than September first based on estimated student enrollment for the first semester on September first, and another fifty per cent not later than May first of each fiscal year based on actual student enrollment for the second semester on February first. The May first payment shall be adjusted to reflect actual interdistrict magnet school program enrollment for those students who have been enrolled at such school for at least two semesters of the school year, using the data of record, and actual student enrollment for those students who have been enrolled at such school for only one semester, using data of record. The May first payment shall be further adjusted for the difference between the total grant received by the magnet school operator in the prior fiscal year and the revised total grant amount calculated for the prior fiscal year where the financial audit submitted by the interdistrict magnet school operator pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (n) of this section indicates an overpayment by the department.
(e) The Department of Education may retain up to one-half of one per cent of the amount appropriated, in an amount not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars, for purposes of this section for program evaluation and administration.
(f) Each local or regional school district in which an interdistrict magnet school is located shall provide the same kind of transportation to its children enrolled in such interdistrict magnet school as it provides to its children enrolled in other public schools in such local or regional school district. The parent or guardian of a child denied the transportation services required to be provided pursuant to this subsection may appeal such denial in the manner provided in sections 10-186 and 10-187.
(g) On or before October fifteenth of each year, the Commissioner of Education shall determine if interdistrict magnet school enrollment is below the number of students for which funds were appropriated. If the commissioner determines that the enrollment is below such number, the additional funds shall not lapse but shall be used by the commissioner for grants for interdistrict cooperative programs pursuant to section 10-74d.
(h) (1) In the case of a student identified as requiring special education, the school district in which the student resides shall: (A) Hold the planning and placement team meeting for such student and shall invite representatives from the interdistrict magnet school to participate in such meeting; and (B) pay the interdistrict magnet school an amount equal to the difference between the reasonable cost of educating such student and the sum of the amount received by the interdistrict magnet school for such student pursuant to subsection (c) of this section and amounts received from other state, federal, local or private sources calculated on a per pupil basis. Such school district shall be eligible for reimbursement pursuant to section 10-76g. If a student requiring special education attends an interdistrict magnet school on a full-time basis, such interdistrict magnet school shall be responsible for ensuring that such student receives the services mandated by the student's individualized education program whether such services are provided by the interdistrict magnet school or by the school district in which the student resides.
(2) In the case of a student with a plan pursuant to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended from time to time, the school district in which the student resides shall pay the interdistrict magnet school an amount equal to the difference between the reasonable cost of educating such student and the sum of the amount received by the interdistrict magnet school for such student pursuant to subsection (c) of this section and amounts received from other state, federal, local or private sources calculated on a per pupil basis. If a student with a plan pursuant to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended from time to time, attends an interdistrict magnet school on a full-time basis, such interdistrict magnet school shall be responsible for ensuring that such student receives the services mandated by the student's plan, whether such services are provided by the interdistrict magnet school or by the school district in which the student resides.
(i) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the enrollment of nonpublic school students in an interdistrict magnet school program that operates less than full-time, provided (1) such students constitute no more than five per cent of the full-time equivalent enrollment in such magnet school program, and (2) such students are not counted for purposes of determining the amount of grants pursuant to this section and section 10-264i.
(j) After accommodating students from participating districts in accordance with an approved enrollment agreement, an interdistrict magnet school operator that has unused student capacity may enroll directly into its program any interested student. A student from a district that is not participating in an interdistrict magnet school or the interdistrict student attendance program pursuant to section 10-266aa to an extent determined by the Commissioner of Education shall be given preference. The local or regional board of education otherwise responsible for educating such student shall contribute funds to support the operation of the interdistrict magnet school in an amount equal to the per student tuition, if any, charged to participating districts, except for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, such per student tuition charged to such participating districts shall not exceed fifty-eight per cent the per student tuition charged during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.
(k) (1) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, and each fiscal year thereafter, any tuition charged to a local or regional board of education by a regional educational service center operating an interdistrict magnet school or any tuition charged by the Hartford school district operating the Great Path Academy on behalf of Manchester Community College for any student enrolled in kindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive, in such interdistrict magnet school shall be in an amount equal to the difference between (A) the average per pupil expenditure of the magnet school for the prior fiscal year, and (B) the amount of any per pupil state subsidy calculated under subsection (c) of this section plus any revenue from other sources calculated on a per pupil basis, except for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, the per student tuition charged to a local or regional board of education shall not exceed fifty-eight per cent the per student tuition charged during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. If any such board of education fails to pay such tuition, the commissioner may withhold from such board's town or towns a sum payable under section 10-262i in an amount not to exceed the amount of the unpaid tuition to the magnet school and pay such money to the fiscal agent for the magnet school as a supplementary grant for the operation of the interdistrict magnet school program. In no case shall the sum of such tuitions exceed the difference between (i) the total expenditures of the magnet school for the prior fiscal year, and (ii) the total per pupil state subsidy calculated under subsection (c) of this section plus any revenue from other sources. The commissioner may conduct a comprehensive financial review of the operating budget of a magnet school to verify such tuition rate.
(2) (A) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2013, and June 30, 2014, a regional educational service center operating an interdistrict magnet school offering a preschool program that is not located in the Sheff region may charge tuition to the Department of Education for a child enrolled in such preschool program in an amount not to exceed an amount equal to the difference between (i) the average per pupil expenditure of the preschool program offered at the magnet school for the prior fiscal year, and (ii) the amount of any per pupil state subsidy calculated under subsection (c) of this section plus any revenue from other sources calculated on a per pupil basis. The commissioner may conduct a comprehensive financial review of the operating budget of any such magnet school charging such tuition to verify such tuition rate. For purposes of this subdivision, “Sheff region” means the school districts for the towns of Avon, Bloomfield, Canton, East Granby, East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartford, Manchester, Newington, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, South Windsor, Suffield, Vernon, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor and Windsor Locks.
(B) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, a regional educational service center operating an interdistrict magnet school offering a preschool program that is not located in the Sheff region may charge tuition to the parent or guardian of a child enrolled in such preschool program in an amount that is in accordance with the sliding tuition scale adopted by the State Board of Education pursuant to section 10-264p. The Department of Education shall be financially responsible for any unpaid portion of the tuition not charged to such parent or guardian under such sliding tuition scale. Such tuition shall not exceed an amount equal to the difference between (i) the average per pupil expenditure of the preschool program offered at the magnet school for the prior fiscal year, and (ii) the amount of any per pupil state subsidy calculated under subsection (c) of this section plus any revenue from other sources calculated on a per pupil basis. The commissioner may conduct a comprehensive financial review of the operating budget of any such magnet school charging such tuition to verify such tuition rate.
(C) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, and each fiscal year thereafter, a regional educational service center operating an interdistrict magnet school offering a preschool program that is not located in the Sheff region shall charge tuition to the parent or guardian of a child enrolled in such preschool program in an amount up to four thousand fifty-three dollars, except such regional educational service center shall (i) not charge tuition to such parent or guardian with a family income at or below seventy-five per cent of the state median income, and (ii) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, charge tuition to such parent or guardian in an amount not to exceed fifty-eight per cent of the tuition charged during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. The Department of Education shall, within available appropriations, be financially responsible for any unpaid tuition charged to such parent or guardian with a family income at or below seventy-five per cent of the state median income. The commissioner may conduct a comprehensive financial review of the operating budget of any such magnet school charging such tuition to verify such tuition rate.
(l) A participating district shall provide opportunities for its students to attend an interdistrict magnet school in a number that is at least equal to the number specified in any written agreement with an interdistrict magnet school operator or in a number that is at least equal to the average number of students that the participating district enrolled in such magnet school during the previous three school years.
(m) (1) On or before May 15, 2010, and annually thereafter, each interdistrict magnet school operator shall provide written notification to any school district that is otherwise responsible for educating a student who resides in such school district and will be enrolled in an interdistrict magnet school under the operator's control for the following school year. Such notification shall include (A) the number of any such students, by grade, who will be enrolled in an interdistrict magnet school under the control of such operator, (B) the name of the school in which such student has been placed, and (C) the amount of tuition to be charged to the local or regional board of education for such student. Such notification shall represent an estimate of the number of students expected to attend such interdistrict magnet schools in the following school year, but shall not be deemed to limit the number of students who may enroll in such interdistrict magnet schools for such year.
(2) For the school year commencing July 1, 2015, and each school year thereafter, any interdistrict magnet school operator that is a local or regional board of education and did not charge tuition to another local or regional board of education for the school year commencing July 1, 2014, may not charge tuition to such board unless (A) such operator receives authorization from the Commissioner of Education to charge the proposed tuition, and (B) if such authorization is granted, such operator provides written notification on or before September first of the school year prior to the school year in which such tuition is to be charged to such board of the tuition to be charged to such board for each student that such board is otherwise responsible for educating and is enrolled at the interdistrict magnet school under such operator's control, except for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, the amount of such tuition charged to such other local or regional board of education shall not exceed fifty-eight per cent the per student tuition charged during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. In deciding whether to authorize an interdistrict magnet school operator to charge tuition under this subdivision, the commissioner shall consider (i) the average per pupil expenditure of such operator for each interdistrict magnet school under the control of such operator, and (ii) the amount of any per pupil state subsidy and any revenue from other sources received by such operator. The commissioner may conduct a comprehensive financial review of the operating budget of the magnet school of such operator to verify that the tuition is appropriate. The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to any interdistrict magnet school operator that is a regional educational service center or assisting 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.
(3) Not later than two weeks following an enrollment lottery for an interdistrict magnet school conducted by a magnet school operator, the parent or guardian of a student (A) who will enroll in such interdistrict magnet school in the following school year, or (B) whose name has been placed on a waiting list for enrollment in such interdistrict magnet school for the following school year, shall provide written notification of such prospective enrollment or waiting list placement to the school district in which such student resides and is otherwise responsible for educating such student.
(n) (1) Each interdistrict magnet school operator shall annually file with the Commissioner of Education, at such time and in such manner as the commissioner prescribes, (A) a financial audit for each interdistrict magnet school operated by such operator, and (B) an aggregate financial audit for all of the interdistrict magnet schools operated by such operator.
(2) Annually, the commissioner shall randomly select one interdistrict magnet school operated by a regional educational service center to be subject to a comprehensive financial audit conducted by an auditor selected by the commissioner. The regional educational service center shall be responsible for all costs associated with the audit conducted pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision.
(o) For the school year commencing July 1, 2023, any local or regional board of education operating an interdistrict magnet school pursuant to the decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, shall not charge tuition for any student enrolled in a preschool program or in kindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive, in an interdistrict magnet school operated by such school district, except the Hartford school district may charge tuition for any student enrolled in the Great Path Academy.
(p) (1) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and each fiscal year thereafter, if the East Hartford school district or the Manchester school district has greater than four per cent of its resident students, as defined in section 10-262f, enrolled in an interdistrict magnet school program, then the board of education for the town of East Hartford or the town of Manchester shall not be financially responsible for four thousand four hundred dollars of the portion of the per student tuition charged for each such student in excess of such four per cent. The Department of Education shall, within available appropriations, be financially responsible for such excess per student tuition. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and each fiscal year thereafter, the amount of the grants payable to the boards of education for the towns of East Hartford and Manchester in accordance with this subsection shall be reduced proportionately if the total of such grants in such year exceeds the amount appropriated for purposes of this subsection.
(2) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, if the local or regional board of education for (A) the town of Windsor, (B) the town of New Britain, (C) the town of New London, and (D) the town of Bloomfield, has greater than four per cent of its resident students, as defined in section 10-262f, enrolled in an interdistrict magnet school program, then such board of education shall not be financially responsible for four thousand four hundred dollars of the portion of the per student tuition charged for each such student in excess of such four per cent. The Department of Education shall, within available appropriations, be financially responsible for such excess per student tuition. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, the amount of the grants payable to any such board of education in accordance with this subsection shall be reduced proportionately if the total of such grants in such year exceeds the amount appropriated for purposes of this subsection.
(P.A. 95-226, S. 17, 30; P.A. 97-290, S. 16, 29; P.A. 98-168, S. 22, 26; 98-252, S. 23, 80; 98-259, S. 4, 17; P.A. 99-289, S. 9, 11; P.A. 00-48, S. 9, 12; P.A. 01-173, S. 65, 67; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7, S. 106; P.A. 03-76, S. 36; P.A. 04-213, S. 22; 04-257, S. 12; P.A. 05-2, S. 3; 05-245, S. 25, 36; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 77, 79; P.A. 06-135, S. 3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3, S. 40, 42; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 45; P.A. 08-152, S. 11; 08-153, S. 2; 08-170, S. 7, 17; P.A. 09-45, S. 4; June 19 Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-1, S. 24; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6, S. 22; P.A. 10-179, S. 18; P.A. 11-6, S. 54; 11-48, S. 183, 184; 11-179, S. 8, 9; P.A. 12-116, S. 63, 87; 12-120, S. 5, 18–20, 23; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 11, 12; P.A. 13-31, S. 26; 13-122, S. 1, 2; 13-247, S. 124, 166, 167; P.A. 14-65, S. 6, 7; 14-217, S. 89; P.A. 15-63, S. 3; 15-143, S. 2; 15-177, S. 1; 15-215, S. 9; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 307; P.A. 16-139, S. 1; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 64, 66; P.A. 17-172, S. 2; 17-237, S. 80; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 61, 585; P.A. 18-51, S. 1, 2; P.A. 19-117, S. 270; 19-184, S. 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 354–357, 411; P.A. 22-118, S. 254; P.A. 23-160, S. 29–31; 23-204, S. 341.)
History: P.A. 95-226 effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 97-290 amended Subsec. (a) to add provision restricting the number of students that may enroll in the program from a participating district to 80% of the total enrollment of the program and to make a technical change, and amended Subsec. (b) to require consideration of the percentage of the student enrollment in the program from each participating district, to add the prohibition against awarding a grant to a program if more than 80% of the total enrollment is from one school district with a one-year exception for good cause, and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-168 amended Subsec. (a) to delete provision for program to be established with funds appropriated for purposes of Sec. 10-74d and to substitute provision for program to be established within available appropriations, and added new Subsec. (e) re retention of up to 1% by the Department of Education, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 98-252 and 98-259 both made cooperative arrangements eligible for grants and P.A. 98-252 also made technical changes, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 99-289 amended Subsec. (a) to make the grants noncompetitive, amended Subsec. (c) to increase the percentage of the grant that programs operating less than full-time are eligible to receive from 50% to 65%, and added Subsec. (f) re transportation and Subsec. (g) re determination of level of enrollment, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 00-48 added Subsec. (h) re special education students, effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 01-173 added Subsec. (i) re enrollment of nonpublic school students in programs operating less than full-time, effective July 1, 2001; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7 amended Subsec. (a) by changing requirements for enrollment percentages for schools beginning operations on or after July 1, 2005, added Subsec. (b)(4) re proposed operating budgets and by adding language re enrollment restrictions for programs beginning operations on or after July 1, 2005, and amended Subsec. (c) by redesignating existing provisions as Subdiv. (1), making technical changes therein, and adding new Subdiv. (2) re supplemental grants, effective August 15, 2002; P.A. 03-76 made a technical change in Subsec. (c)(1), effective June 3, 2003; P.A. 04-213 amended Subsec. (a) by allowing the Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges on behalf of Manchester Community College to be eligible for grants and by adding provision re operation in conformance with laws applicable to public schools, effective June 3, 2004; P.A. 04-257 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective June 14, 2004; P.A. 05-2 amended Subsec. (c)(2) to apply provisions to fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, and to delete reference to fiscal years ending June 30, 2003, and June 30, 2004, effective March 22, 2005; P.A. 05-245 amended Subsec. (c)(2) by making proportional reduction in grants applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, and each fiscal year thereafter, effective June 30, 2005, and amended Subsec. (c) by adding exception in Subdiv. (1) for programs described in Subdiv. (3)(A) and by adding Subdiv. (3) re programs described by enrollment percentages from a single town, deleted former Subsec. (e) re retention of funds for program evaluation and administration and redesignated existing Subsecs. (f) to (i) as Subsecs. (e) to (h), effective July 1, 2005; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 amended Subsec. (c)(2) by including summer school programs and reinstated Subsec. (e) re amount retained for program evaluation and administration, reducing amount department may retain from 1% to one-half of 1%, and redesignated existing Subsecs. (e) to (h) as Subsecs. (f) to (i), effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-135 amended Subsec. (c)(2) by deleting reference to summer school programs and added Subdiv. (4) re grants to regional educational service centers that provide summer school educational programs, effective July 1, 2006; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3 amended Subsec. (c) to make technical changes, to provide in Subdiv. (1) that host magnet school program with participating district that enrolls more than 55% of its students in the magnet school shall receive a grant that is $6,016 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, $6,730 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, $7,440 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, and $8,158 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, and for residents of the host town a per pupil grant of $3,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, and thereafter, to provide in Subdiv. (3)(A) that magnet schools operated by regional educational service center that enroll less than 55% of its students from a single town shall receive a per pupil grant that is $7,060 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, $7,620 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, $8,180 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, and $8,741 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, to add new Subdiv. (3)(B) re per pupil grants for magnet schools operated by regional educational service center that enrolls at least 55% of its students from a single town, to redesignate existing Subdiv. (3)(B) as Subdiv.(3)(C) and add Subsecs. (j) and (k) re unused student capacity and re financial audits of interdistrict magnet schools operated by regional educational service centers, effective July 1, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 amended Subsec. (c) to remove restriction on formula for districts with enrollment greater than 55% in Subdiv. (1), to redesignate existing Subdiv. (4) as Subdiv. (5) and to add new Subdiv. (4) re proportional adjustment of grants, effective October 6, 2007; P.A. 08-152 amended Subsec. (a) to change “vocational agriculture” to “agricultural science and technology”, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 08-153 deleted Subsec. (c)(3)(C) re case where regional educational service center enrolls at least 55% of students from a single town, effective June 12, 2008; P.A. 08-170 amended Subsec. (a) to add Subdiv. designators (1)(A), (B) and (C), to substitute Quinebaug Valley Community College for Manchester Community College, to add Subdiv. (2) re stipulation re Sheff v. O'Neill, to redesignate existing Subdivs. (1), (2) and (3) as clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), to change “vocational agriculture” to “agricultural science and technology” and to delete former Subpara. designators (A) and (B), amended Subsecs. (b) and (c) to add provisions re stipulation re Sheff v. O'Neill, amended Subsec. (d) to add exception re Subsec. (c)(6) and amended Subsec. (j) to designate existing language as Subdivs. (1) and (2), to add language re interdistrict student attendance program to Subdiv. (1), to replace existing tuition formula for fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, in Subdiv. (2) with tuition formula that limits tuition to amount that is at least 75% of difference between per pupil expenditure of prior fiscal year and state subsidy and other revenue and provides for 10% cap on any increase and to add Subdiv. (3) re provision of opportunities, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 09-45 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective May 20, 2009; June 19 Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-1 amended Subsec. (j) by adding Subdiv. (4) re notification to school district of student enrollment at interdistrict magnet school, effective July 1, 2009; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6 amended Subsec. (b) by designating existing provision re submission of applications for interdistrict magnet school operating grants as Subdiv. (1) and amending same by adding provision re development and submission of a comprehensive state-wide interdistrict magnet school plan, designating existing provisions re considerations for application approval, desegregation standards and meeting with commissioner as Subdiv. (2) and amending same by redesignating existing Subdivs. (1) to (4) as Subparas. (A) to (D) and adding provision re maximum allowable threshold for proposed operating budget by a magnet school not operated by a local or regional board of education and designating existing provision re requirements for enrollment of students from one school district and of racial minorities as Subdiv. (3), amended Subsec. (c)(1) by replacing “and (B)” with “to (F), inclusive,”, deleting former Subparas. (C) and (D), inserting “to June 30, 2011, inclusive” and making conforming changes, amended Subsec. (c)(2) by replacing “reviewed” with “conducted a comprehensive financial review”, amended Subsec. (c)(3)(A) and (B) by replacing “Each” with “Except as otherwise provided in subparagraphs (C) to (F), inclusive, of this subdivision, each”, deleting provision re regional educational service center enrolling less than 60% of its students from Hartford, deleting existing clauses re fiscal years 2010 and 2011 and inserting “and each fiscal year thereafter”, amended Subsec. (c)(3) by adding Subpara. (C) re grant for interdistrict magnet school that began operations for school year commencing July 1, 1998, and has student enrollment of at least 55% but no more than 75% from a single town, adding Subpara. (D) re grant for interdistrict magnet school that began operations for school year commencing July 1, 2001, and has student enrollment of at least 55% but no more than 80% from a single town, adding Subpara. (E) re grant for interdistrict magnet schools operated by organizations enumerated in clauses (i) to (vii), adding Subpara. (F) re grant for interdistrict magnet schools operated by Hartford school district pursuant to stipulation and order and adding Subpara. (G) re supplemental grants for fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, amended Subsec. (j) by deleting Subdiv. (1) designator, redesignating existing Subdiv. (2) as new Subsec. (k) and amending same by redesignating existing Subparas. (A) and (B) as Subdivs. (1) and (2), deleting prohibition re 10% increase in tuition, adding provision re tuition charged by a regional educational service center operating an interdistrict magnet school, adding provision re cap on sum of tuitions and adding provision re comprehensive financial review of magnet school operating budget, and redesignating existing Subdivs. (3) and (4) as Subsecs. (l) and (m), redesignated existing Subsec. (k) as Subsec. (n) and added Subsec. (o) re prohibition against charging tuition for any student enrolled in interdistrict magnet school operated by Hartford school district for school years commencing July 1, 2009, and July 1, 2010, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 10-179 amended Subsec. (c)(3)(C) and (D) by limiting per pupil grant for each enrolled student who is a resident of district to fiscal years ending June 30, 2010, and 2011, by changing amount of such grant for fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, and by limiting per pupil grant for each enrolled student who is not a resident of district to fiscal years ending June 30, 2010, and 2011, effective May 7, 2010; P.A. 11-6 amended Subsec. (c)(3)(D) by extending per pupil grant for each enrolled student who is a resident of district to fiscal years ending June 30, 2012, and June 30, 2013, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (c)(1)(B) by extending nonresident per student grant through fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, and amended Subsec. (c)(3)(E)(II) and (F) by extending per pupil grants for interdistrict magnet schools through fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, and amended Subsec. (o) by extending prohibition against charging tuition for any student enrolled in interdistrict magnet school operated by Hartford school district through school year commencing July 1, 2012, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-179 amended Subsec. (d) by replacing “fifty” with “seventy”, replacing “January” with “May”, adding provision re using data of record as of intervening March first and adding provision re further adjustment to May first payment, effective July 13, 2011, and amended Subsec. (n)(1) by deleting “operated by a regional educational service center”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-116 amended Subsec. (c) by adding Subpara. (C) re amount for fiscal year 2013 and each fiscal year thereafter in Subdiv. (1), adding clause (v) re amount for fiscal year 2013 and each fiscal year thereafter in Subdiv. (3)(A), adding clause (iii) re amount for fiscal year 2013 and each fiscal year thereafter in Subdiv. (3)(B), deleting former Subdiv. (3)(C) re magnet school operated by regional educational service center, redesignating existing Subdivs. (3)(D) to (3)(G) as Subdivs. (3)(C) to (3)(F), replacing previous grant amounts for prior fiscal years with $8,180 for fiscal year 2013 and each fiscal year thereafter in redesignated Subdiv. (3)(C), and making conforming changes, effective July 1, 2012; pursuant to P.A. 12-116, “regional vocational-technical school” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “technical high school” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 12-120 amended Subsec. (a)(1)(C) by adding “and Three Rivers Community College”, effective July 1, 2012, and amended Subsec. (c)(3)(E) by adding clause (viii) re Great Path Academy, amended Subsec. (d) by replacing provision re preliminary grant amount for current fiscal year with provision re revised grant amount calculated for prior fiscal year, amended Subsec. (k) by adding provision re tuition charged by Hartford school district operating Great Path Academy on behalf of Manchester Community College and amended Subsec. (o) by adding exception re tuition charged by Hartford school district for students enrolled in Great Path Academy, effective June 15, 2012; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 amended Subsecs. (k) and (o) to add “in a preschool program or in kindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive”, effective December 21, 2012; P.A. 13-31 made technical changes in Subsec. (c)(3)(A) and (B), effective May 28, 2013; P.A. 13-122 amended Subsec. (d) by adding references to magnet school operator, total grant amount and aggregate financial audit re May first payment and amended Subsec. (n) by adding reference to magnet school operator, designating existing provision re financial audit as Subpara. (A) and amending same to apply to each magnet school, adding Subpara. (B) re aggregate financial audit and making a conforming change, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-247 amended Subsec. (c)(3) by replacing “2013” with “2015” in Subpara. (D) and replacing “the Hartford school district” with “a local or regional board of education” and replacing “2013” with “2015” in Subpara. (E), amended Subsec. (k) by deleting provisions re magnet school tuition charged for fiscal years 2009 and 2010, designating existing provision re magnet school tuition charged for fiscal year 2011 and each fiscal year thereafter as Subdiv. (1) and amending same by replacing “2011” with “2014”, deleting “in a preschool program or”, redesignating existing clauses (i) and (ii) as Subparas. (A) and (B) and redesignating existing subclauses (I) and (II) as clauses (i) and (ii), and adding new Subdiv. (2) re tuition charged for preschool programs offered by magnet schools not located in the Sheff region, and amended Subsec. (o) by replacing “2012” with “2014” and replacing “the Hartford school district” with “any local or regional board of education operating an interdistrict magnet school pursuant to the 2008 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William O'Neill, et al.”, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-65 made technical changes in Subsec. (a)(2) and Subsec. (c)(3), (5) and (6), effective July 1, 2014; 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.,” throughout, amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re enrollment restriction of participating district students in accordance with reduced-isolation setting standards of 2013 stipulation and order, amended Subsec. (b) by replacing provisions re desegregation standards with provisions re reduced-isolation setting standards in 2013 stipulation and order in Subdiv. (2), and adding references to P.A. 11-48, S. 197 and the 2013 stipulation and order for Sheff v. O'Neill, designating existing provisions as Subparas. (A) and (B) and replacing “such an exception for a second consecutive year” with “the exceptions described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this subdivision for an additional consecutive year or years” in Subdiv. (3), substantially revised Subsec. (c)(3), including adding new Subpara. (C)(2) and (4) re grant for each enrolled resident and nonresident student greater than the total number of such students as of October 1, 2013, and adding new Subpara. (E) re per pupil grant for certain trimester students, amended Subsec. (c)(4) by adding provisions re limitation of grant payment to magnet school operator based on enrollment level as of October 1, 2013, and re prioritization for approval of funding above such enrollment level, amended Subsec. (d) by designating existing provisions re payment of grants as Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (2) re payment schedule for grants made under Subsec. (c)(3)(E), amended Subsec. (e) to add “in an amount not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars”, and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 15-63 amended Subsec. (c)(3)(E) to replace references to college or university with references to institution of higher education, effective June 19, 2015; P.A. 15-143 made technical changes in Subsec. (c)(3)(C), effective June 30, 2015; P.A. 15-177 amended Subsec. (b)(1) by replacing “January 1, 2011” with “October 1, 2016”, effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 15-215 amended Subsec. (m) by designating existing provisions as Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (2) re parental notification of prospective enrollment or waiting list placement, effective July 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 added “as extended” re 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al. throughout, amended Subsec. (b) by adding reference to appropriations committee in Subdiv. (1) and replacing references to section 197 of public act 11-48 with references to section 116 of public act 14-217 in Subdiv. (3), amended Subsec. (c)(3)(D) by designating existing provisions as new clause (i) and amending same by adding “Except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (D)(ii) of this subparagraph, each”, redesignating existing clauses (i) to (viii) as subclauses (I) to (VIII), deleting former subclause designators (I) and (II) and replacing “2015” with “2017” and by adding new clause (ii) re grants for schools that enroll less than 50% of incoming students from Hartford, amended Subsec. (c)(3)(E) by replacing “Each” with “For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, and each fiscal year thereafter, each”, replacing “on a trimester basis” with “at least half-time”, deleting provision re grant of $10,443 for each student enrolled for at least two of three trimesters for fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, adding subclause (I) re grant of 65% for each student enrolled for at least two semesters and adding subclause (II) re grant of 32.5% for each student enrolled for one semester, amended Subsec. (c)(3)(F) by replacing “2015” with “2017”, amended Subsec. (c)(3) by adding Subpara. (H) re grant for half-day Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and adding Subpara. (I) re grant for half-day Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science, amended Subsec. (c)(4) by making provision re limitation of payment applicable to fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2017, making provisions of Subpara. (A) applicable to school years commencing July 1, 2015, and July 1, 2016, adding new Subpara. (B) re increases in enrollment in school program that added planned new grade levels for school year commencing July 1, 2014, and was funded during fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, redesignating existing Subpara. (B) as new Subpara. (C) and amending same by making provisions applicable to school years commencing July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2016, and redesignating existing Subparas. (C) and (D) as Subparas. (D) and (E), amended Subsec. (d)(2) by replacing “2015” with “2016” and replacing provision re schedule of grant payments in 30% amounts with provision re schedule of grant payments in 50% amounts, adding “based on actual student enrollment for the second semester on February first”, replacing “of three trimesters” with “semesters” and adding provision re actual student enrollment for students enrolled for only one semester, amended Subsec. (k)(2) by deleting “and each fiscal year thereafter” in Subpara. (B) and adding Subpara. (C) re tuition charged to parent or guardian, amended Subsec. (o) by replacing “2014” with “2016”, added Subsec. (p) re portion of per student tuition that East Hartford is not responsible for, and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 16-139 amended Subsec. (m) by adding Subpara. (A) to (C) designators in Subdiv. (1), adding new Subdiv. (2) re operator charging tuition to boards of education, and redesignating existing Subdiv. (2) re enrollment lottery as Subdiv. (3), effective June 9, 2016; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 amended Subsec. (p) by deleting references to fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, and making provisions applicable to “each fiscal year thereafter”, effective June 2, 2016, and amended Subsec. (c) by deleting provision re proportional adjustment of grants and replacing “to June 30, 2017, inclusive” with “and June 30, 2016” in Subdiv. (4), adding new Subdiv. (5) re limitation of grant payment to operators for fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, based on enrollment levels, redesignating existing Subdivs. (5) and (6) as Subdivs. (6) and (7), and adding Subdiv. (8) re proportional adjustment of grants, and amended Subsec. (d)(1) by adding provision re grants to be paid as aggregate totals to operators and distributed among magnet school programs according to a distribution plan, effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 17-172 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing provisions re enrollment on and after July 1, 2000 with provisions re enrollment for school years commencing July 1, 2017 and July 1, 2018, amended Subsec. (b)(2) by deleting references to 2008 and 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., adding “For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2017, and June 30, 2018,” adding “its obligations pursuant to the decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect”, adding reference to reduced-isolation setting standards developed pursuant to Sec. 10-264r, and adding provision re approval of plan to bring school into compliance with reduced-isolation setting standards, amended Subsec. (b)(3) by replacing provisions re commissioner shall not award grant with provisions re same for fiscal years ending June 30, 2018 and June 30, 2019, added Subsec. (b)(4) re financial penalty on operator of interdistrict magnet school program, and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2017; P.A. 17-237 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “technical high school” with “technical education and career school”, effective July 1, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (c) by deleting “pursuant to the 2008 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., as extended,” in Subdiv. (3)(D)(ii)(VIII), replacing “2017” with “2019” in Subdivs. (3)(D) and (3)(F), replacing “2008 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., as extended, or the 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al.,” with “decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect” in Subdiv. (3)(F), adding new Subdivs. (6) and (7) re limitation of grant payment to operators for fiscal years ending June 30, 2018, and June 30, 2019, respectively, based on enrollment levels, redesignating existing Subdivs. (6) to (8) as Subdivs. (8) to (10), replacing “the goals of the 2008 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., as extended, or the 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al.,” with “its obligations pursuant to the decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect” in redesignated Subdivs. (8) and (9), and amended Subsec. (o) by replacing “2016” with “2018” and replacing “2008 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., as extended, or the 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., as extended” with “decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect”, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 18-51 amended Subsec. (c)(10) by replacing “any grant pursuant to this section exceed the reasonable operating budget of the interdistrict magnet school program” with “the total grant paid to an interdistrict magnet school operator pursuant to this section exceed the aggregate total of the reasonable operating budgets of the interdistrict magnet school programs of such operator”, and amended Subsec. (d)(1) by replacing “March first” with “January thirty-first”, effective July 1, 2018; P.A. 19-117 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” in Subsecs. (a)(2) and (b)(1), amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “2018” with “2020, inclusive”, amended Subsec. (b) by adding “June 30, 2020, and June 30, 2021” in Subdiv. (2), replacing “2019” with “2021, inclusive” in Subdivs. (3) and (4), amended Subsec. (c)(1) by adding Subpara. (D) re grant of $7,227 for fiscal year 2020, designating existing provision re per pupil grant of $3,000 as clause (i) and adding clause (ii) re per pupil grant of $3,060 for fiscal year 2020, amended Subsec. (c)(3) by adding clause (vi) re grant of $8,058 for fiscal year 2020 in Subpara. (A), adding clause (vi) re grant of $7,227 for fiscal year 2020 in Subpara. (B), designating existing provisions in Subpara. (C) as new clause (i) and amending same by redesignating existing clauses (i) to (iv) as subclauses (I) to (IV) and adding new clause (ii) re per pupil grants for resident and nonresident students for fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter, by adding provision re grant of $10,652 for fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter in Subpara. (D)(i), adding provision re grant for non-Hartford students for fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter in Subpara. (D)(ii), replacing “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 “decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, as determined by the commissioner” in Subpara. (E), and adding clause (iii) re grant of $13,315 in Subpara. (F), amended Subsec. (c)(4) by replacing “2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., as extended” with “decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, as determined by the commissioner”, further amended Subsec. (c) by adding new Subdivs. (8) and (9) re limitation of grant payment to operators for fiscal years 2020 and 2021, respectively, based on enrollment levels, redesignating existing Subdivs. (8) to (10) as Subdivs. (10) to (12), and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 19-184 amended Subsec. (h) by designating existing provisions re responsibilities of school districts in cases of students identified as requiring special education as new Subdiv. (1) and amending same by redesignating existing Subdivs. (1) and (2) as Subparas. (A) and (B), and adding new Subdiv. (2) re school districts responsible for paying interdistrict magnet schools for certain expenses in cases of students with plans pursuant to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and interdistrict magnet schools responsible for ensuring such students receive services mandated by plans, effective July 1, 2019; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “July 1, 2021” with “July 1, 2023”, amended Subsec. (b)(3) by replacing “June 30, 2021” with “June 30, 2023” and adding “residency or”, amended Subsec. (c) by adding exception re commissioner waiver of 50 per cent enrollment minimum in Subdiv. (3)(D)(ii) and by deleting provision re amounts of grants to be proportionately adjusted in Subdiv. (12), and amended Subsec. (m)(2) by replacing “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 July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-118 amended Subsec. (p) by designating existing provisions re portion of per student tuition that East Hartford is not responsible for as Subdiv. (1) and amended same by replacing “June 30, 2016” with “June 30, 2023” and “seven per cent” with “four per cent”, making provisions applicable to the Manchester school district and making conforming changes, and adding Subdiv. (2) re portion of per student tuition that towns located in Sheff region, New Britain and New London are not responsible for, effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 23-160 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “For the school years commencing July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2023, inclusive” with “For the school year commencing July 1, 2017, and each school year thereafter” and amended Subsec. (b)(3) by replacing “June 30, 2023” with “June 30, 2025”, amended Subsec. (c)(3)(C)(ii) by replacing “For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, and each fiscal year thereafter” with “For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2022, inclusive”, and amended Subsec. (o) by adding “and for the school year commencing July 1, 2023”, effective July 1, 2023; P.A. 23-204 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “For the school years commencing July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2023, inclusive” with “For the school year commencing July 1, 2017, and each school year thereafter”, amended Subsec. (b)(3) by replacing “June 30, 2023” with “June 30, 2025”, amended Subsec. (c)(1) by deleting former Subparas. (A) to (D), adding new Subpara. (A) re grant of $7,227 for fiscal year 2024 and new Subpara. (B) re grant of at least $7,227 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, deleting former clauses (i) and (ii), and adding new clause (i) re grant of $3,060 for fiscal year 2024 and new clause (ii) re grant of at least $3,060 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (c)(3)(A) by deleting former clauses (i) to (vi) and adding new clause (i) re grant of $8,058 for fiscal year 2024 and new clause (ii) re grant of at least $8,058 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (c)(3)(B) by deleting former clauses (i) to (iv), adding new clause (i) re grant of $7,227 for fiscal year 2024 and new clause (ii) re grant of at least $7,227 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, designating existing provision re grant of $3,060 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year 2024 and adding subclause (II) re grant of at least $3,060 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (c)(3)(C)(ii) by replacing “fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, and each fiscal year thereafter” with “fiscal years ending June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2022, inclusive”, amended Subsec. (c)(3)(D)(i) by deleting provisions re grants for fiscal years 2010 to 2023 and adding provisions re grant of $10,652 for fiscal year 2024, grant of at least $10,652 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter and exception re commissioner may make grants to operators that enroll more than 60 per cent of its students from Hartford, amended Subsec. (c)(3)(C)(ii) by deleting provisions re grants for fiscal years 2016 to 2023, designating existing provision re grant of $8,058 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year 2024 and adding subclause (II) re grants of at least $8,058 and $10,652 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (c)(3)(F) by deleting former clauses (i) to (iii) and adding new clause (i) re grant of $13,315 for fiscal year 2024 and new clause (ii) re grant of at least $13,315 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (c)(12) by adding “For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and each fiscal year thereafter, the department shall make grants determined pursuant to this subsection within available appropriations, and in” and making a conforming change, amended Subsec. (c) by adding Subdiv. (13) re programs operating less than full-time, but at least half-time, are eligible for a grant equal to 65 per cent of the grant amount determined under subsection, amended Subsec. (j) by adding exception re tuition charged during fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter shall not exceed 58 per cent of the per student tuition charged during fiscal year 2024, amended Subsec. (k)(1) by adding exception re tuition charged during fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter shall not exceed 58 per cent of the per student tuition charged during fiscal year 2024, amended Subsec. (k)(2)(C) by designating existing provision re prohibition against charging tuition to parent with family income at or below 75 per cent of state median income as clause (i) and adding clause (ii) re prohibition against charging tuition that exceeds 58 per cent of the per student tuition charged during fiscal year 2024 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (m)(2) by making a technical change and adding exception re tuition charged during fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter shall not exceed 58 per cent of the per student tuition charged during fiscal year 2024, amended Subsec. (o) by replacing “school years commencing July 1, 2009, to July 1, 2018, inclusive” with “school year commencing July 1, 2023”, and amended Subsec. (p)(2) by replacing “June 30, 2023” with “June 30, 2024”, deleting former Subpara. (A) re towns located in Sheff region, adding new Subpara. (A) re town of Windsor, adding Subpara. (D) re town of Bloomfield, deleting provision re amount of allocation of federal funds and making conforming changes, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-264o. Tuition payable to interdistrict magnet schools that assist the state in meeting its obligations pursuant to Sheff v. O'Neill. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, interdistrict magnet schools that begin operations on or after July 1, 2008, 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, may operate without district participation agreements and enroll students from any district through a lottery designated by the commissioner.
(b) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, and each fiscal year thereafter, any tuition charged to a local or regional board of education by a regional educational service center operating an interdistrict magnet school assisting 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, for any student enrolled in kindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive, in such interdistrict magnet school shall be in an amount equal to the difference between (1) the average per pupil expenditure of the magnet school for the prior fiscal year, and (2) the amount of any per pupil state subsidy calculated under subsection (c) of section 10-264l, plus any revenue from other sources calculated on a per pupil basis, except for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, the per student tuition charged to a local or regional board of education shall not exceed fifty-eight per cent the per student tuition charged during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. If any such board of education fails to pay such tuition, the commissioner may withhold from such board's town or towns a sum payable under section 10-262i in an amount not to exceed the amount of the unpaid tuition to the magnet school and pay such money to the fiscal agent for the magnet school as a supplementary grant for the operation of the interdistrict magnet school program. In no case shall the sum of such tuitions exceed the difference between (A) the total expenditures of the magnet school for the prior fiscal year, and (B) the total per pupil state subsidy calculated under subsection (c) of section 10-264l, plus any revenue from other sources. The commissioner may conduct a comprehensive review of the operating budget of a magnet school to verify such tuition rate.
(c) (1) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, a regional educational service center operating an interdistrict magnet school assisting 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 offering a preschool program shall not charge tuition for a child enrolled in such preschool program.
(2) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, a regional educational service center operating an interdistrict magnet school assisting 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 offering a preschool program may charge tuition to the Department of Education for a child enrolled in such preschool program in an amount not to exceed an amount equal to the difference between (A) the average per pupil expenditure of the preschool program offered at the magnet school for the prior fiscal year, and (B) the amount of any per pupil state subsidy calculated under subsection (c) of section 10-264l, plus any revenue from other sources calculated on a per pupil basis. The commissioner may conduct a comprehensive review of the operating budget of any such magnet school charging such tuition to verify such tuition rate.
(3) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, a regional educational service center operating an interdistrict magnet school assisting 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 offering a preschool program may charge tuition to the parent or guardian of a child enrolled in such preschool program in an amount that is in accordance with the sliding tuition scale adopted by the State Board of Education pursuant to section 10-264p. The Department of Education shall be financially responsible for any unpaid portion of the tuition not charged to such parent or guardian under such sliding tuition scale. Such tuition shall not exceed an amount equal to the difference between (A) the average per pupil expenditure of the preschool program offered at the magnet school for the prior fiscal year, and (B) the amount of any per pupil state subsidy calculated under subsection (c) of section 10-264l, plus any revenue from other sources calculated on a per pupil basis. The commissioner may conduct a comprehensive review of the operating budget of any such magnet school charging such tuition to verify such tuition rate.
(4) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, and each fiscal year thereafter, a regional educational service center operating an interdistrict magnet school assisting 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 offering a preschool program shall charge tuition to the parent or guardian of a child enrolled in such preschool program in an amount up to four thousand fifty-three dollars, except such regional educational service center shall not charge tuition to such parent or guardian with a family income at or below seventy-five per cent of the state median income. The Department of Education shall, within available appropriations, be financially responsible for any unpaid tuition charged to such parent or guardian with a family income at or below seventy-five per cent of the state median income. The commissioner may conduct a comprehensive financial review of the operating budget of any such magnet school charging such tuition to verify such tuition rate.
(P.A. 08-170, S. 14; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6, S. 24; P.A. 11-136, S. 13; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 13; P.A. 13-247, S. 125; P.A. 14-217, S. 94; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 314; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 412; P.A. 23-204, S. 342.)
History: P.A. 08-170 effective July 1, 2008; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6 deleted former Subsec. (b) and made a conforming change, deleted “but prior to July 1, 2009,” from provision re when interdistrict magnet schools begin operations, added language re lottery designated by commissioner to provision re enrollment of students from any district, made existing provision re tuition charged applicable to fiscal year 2009, and added provisions re tuition charged applicable to fiscal year 2010, fiscal year 2011 and each fiscal year thereafter, re sum of tuitions and re comprehensive review of operating budget by commissioner, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 11-136 replaced “subsection (c) of this section” with “subsection (c) of section 10-264l” re calculation of per pupil state subsidy, effective July 8, 2011; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 added “in a preschool program or in kindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive”, effective December 21, 2012; P.A. 13-247 deleted provisions re magnet school tuition charged for fiscal years ending June 30, 2009, and June 30, 2010, designated existing provisions as Subsecs. (a) and (b), amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “2011” with “2013”, deleting “in a preschool program or”, redesignating existing Subparas. (A) and (B) as Subdivs. (1) and (2), redesignating existing clauses (i) and (ii) as Subparas. (A) and (B) and making a conforming change, and added Subsec. (c) re preschool program tuition, effective July 1, 2013; 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.” throughout and, in Subsecs. (b) and (c), replaced “that began operations on or after July 1, 2008, pursuant to” with “assisting the state in meeting the goals of”, effective July 1, 2014; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 added “as extended” re 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al. throughout and amended Subsec. (c) by deleting “and each fiscal year thereafter” in Subdiv. (3) and adding Subdiv. (4) re tuition charged to parent or guardian, effective July 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 replaced references to the 2008 and 2013 stipulations and orders for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., with references to obligations pursuant to decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, made a conforming change in Subsec. (a), and added “,” after “10-264l” in Subsecs. (b), (c)(2) and (c)(3), effective June 23, 2021; P.A. 23-204 amended Subsec. (b) by adding exception re tuition charged during fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter shall not exceed 58 per cent of the per student tuition charged during fiscal year 2024, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-264r. Reduced-isolation setting standards. Not later than July 1, 2017, the Commissioner of Education shall develop, and revise as necessary thereafter, reduced-isolation enrollment standards for interdistrict magnet school programs that shall serve as the enrollment requirements for purposes of section 10-264l. Such standards shall (1) comply with the decision of Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, for an interdistrict magnet school program located in the Sheff region, as defined in subsection (k) of section 10-264l, (2) define the term “reduced-isolation student” for purposes of the standards, (3) 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, (4) 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 (5) for the school year commencing July 1, 2018, authorize the commissioner to establish on or before May 1, 2018, and revise as necessary thereafter, an alternative reduced-isolation student enrollment percentage for an interdistrict magnet school program located in the Sheff region, 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, multilingual 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; P.A. 23-150, S. 34; 23-160, S. 32; 23-204, S. 333.)
History: P.A. 17-172 effective July 1, 2017; P.A. 23-150 replaced “English language” with “multilingual” in Subdiv. (4)(A)(i), effective July 1, 2023; P.A. 23-160 added “, and revise as necessary thereafter,”, replaced “reduced-isolation setting standards” with “reduced-isolation enrollment standards”, added new Subdiv. (1) re comply with decision of Sheff v. O'Neill or any related stipulation or order in effect for programs located in Sheff region, redesignated existing Subdivs. (1) to (4) as Subdivs. (2) to (5), and amended redesignated Subdiv. (5) by adding “and revise as necessary thereafter,” and deleting “as defined in subsection (k) of section 10-264l,”, effective July 1, 2023; P.A. 23-204 made identical changes as P.A. 23-160, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-264u. Submission of enrollment numbers for certain programs by May twentieth. Not later than May twentieth of each school year, each local and regional board of education, operator of an interdistrict magnet school program and governing council of a state or local charter school shall annually submit to the Department of Education the number of students enrolled as of April first of such school year for such board, operator or governing council. In the case of a local or regional board of education that (1) is a sending district or receiving district, as those terms are defined in section 10-266aa, under the state-wide interdistrict public school attendance program, (2) is an operator of an interdistrict magnet school program, or (3) operates an agricultural science and technology educator center, such board shall annually submit to the department the number of students participating in such program as of April first of such school year, separately for in-district and out-of-district students.
(P.A. 23-167, S. 37.)
History: P.A. 23-167 effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-265r. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning system grant program. (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Administrative Services shall administer a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system grant program to reimburse local and regional boards of education for costs associated with projects for the installation, replacement or upgrading of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems or other improvements to indoor air quality in school buildings.
(b) (1) A local or regional board of education or a regional educational service center may apply, at such time and in such manner as the Commissioner of Administrative Services prescribes, for a grant for a project involving the installation, replacement or upgrading of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems or other improvements to indoor air quality in school buildings. A local or regional board of education may submit an application for any such project that (A) was commenced on or after March 1, 2020, and completed before July 1, 2022, or (B) is commenced on or after July 1, 2022.
(2) The commissioner shall develop eligibility criteria for the awarding of grants under the program. Such criteria shall include, but need not be limited to, (A) the age and condition of the current heating, ventilation and air conditioning system or equipment being replaced or upgraded in the school, (B) current air quality issues at the school, (C) the age and condition of the overall school building, (D) the school district's master plan, (E) the availability of maintenance records, (F) a contract or plans for the routine maintenance and cleaning of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, and (G) the local or regional board of education's or regional educational service center's ability to finance the remainder of the costs for such project after receiving a grant under the program. The commissioner shall utilize such eligibility criteria when determining whether to award a grant to an applicant under the program.
(3) The commissioner shall not award a grant under the program to any applicant that, on or after July 1, 2024, has not certified compliance with the uniform inspection and evaluation of an existing heating, ventilation and air conditioning system pursuant to subsection (d) of section 10-220.
(c) (1) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (4) of this subsection, a local board of education may receive a grant equal to a percentage of its eligible expenses. The percentage shall be determined by its ranking. Such ranking shall be determined as follows: (A) Each town shall be ranked in descending order from one to one hundred sixty-nine according to the adjusted equalized net grand list per capita, as defined in section 10-261, of the town two, three and four years prior to the fiscal year in which application is made, (B) based upon such ranking, a percentage of not less than twenty or more than eighty shall be assigned to each town on a continuous scale, and (C) the town ranked first shall be assigned a percentage of twenty and the town ranked last shall be assigned a percentage of eighty.
(2) A regional board of education may receive a grant equal to a percentage of its eligible expenses. The percentage shall be determined by its ranking. Such ranking shall be determined as follows: (A) Multiplying the total population, as defined in section 10-261, of each town in the district by such town's ranking, as determined in subdivision (1) of this subsection, (B) adding together the figures determined under subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, and (C) dividing the total computed under subparagraph (B) of this subdivision by the total population of all towns in the district. The ranking of each regional board of education shall be rounded to the next higher whole number and each such board shall receive the same reimbursement percentage as would a town with the same rank plus ten per cent, except that no such percentage shall exceed eighty-five per cent.
(3) A regional educational service center may receive a grant equal to a percentage of its eligible expenses. The percentage shall be determined by its ranking. Such ranking shall be determined by (A) multiplying the population of each member town in the regional educational service center by such town's ranking, as determined in subdivision (1) of this subsection, (B) adding together the figures for each town determined under subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, and (C) dividing the total computed under subparagraph (B) of this subdivision by the total population of all member towns in the regional educational service center. The ranking of each regional educational service center shall be rounded to the next higher whole number and each such center shall receive the same reimbursement percentage as would a town with the same rank.
(4) The local board of education for (A) any town with a total population of eighty thousand or greater shall receive a grant equal to a percentage of its eligible expenses that is the greater of the percentage calculated pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection or sixty per cent, and (B) the town of Cheshire shall receive a grant equal to a percentage of its eligible expenses that is the greater of the percentage calculated pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection or fifty per cent.
(d) If there are not sufficient funds to provide grants to all local and regional boards of education and regional educational service centers, based on the percentage determined pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, the commissioner shall give priority to applicants on behalf of schools with the greatest need for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems or other improvements to indoor air quality in school buildings, as determined by the commissioner based on the eligibility criteria developed pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of this section.
(e) The following expenses shall not be eligible for reimbursement under this section: (1) Routine maintenance and cleaning of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, (2) work that is otherwise eligible for a school building project grant under chapter 173, and (3) work performed at or on a public school administrative or service facility that is not located or housed within a public school building.
(f) A local or regional board of education or a regional educational service center may use any federal funds received by such board or center to finance a project for the installation, replacement or upgrading of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems or other improvements to indoor air quality in school buildings for which a grant is received under this section, and such federal funds shall be deemed to be part or all of the town's local share for such project.
(g) Any project for the installation, replacement or upgrading of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems or other improvements to indoor air quality in school buildings for which a grant is awarded under this section shall be completed by the end of the next calendar year, unless the duration of such project is extended by the commissioner upon a showing of good cause by the local or regional board of education or regional educational service center.
(h) Any local or regional board of education or regional educational service center that receives a grant under this section shall (1) be responsible for the routine maintenance and cleaning of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, and (2) provide training to school personnel and building maintenance staff concerning the proper use and maintenance of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system.
(P.A. 22-118, S. 367; P.A. 23-204, S. 328; 23-205, S. 119.)
History: P.A. 22-118 effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 23-204 amended Subsec. (c) by adding “Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (4) of this subsection, a” and making a conforming change in Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (4) re grant percentage for towns with total populations of 80,000 or greater and the town of Cheshire, effective June 1, 2023; P.A. 23-205 amended Subsec. (f) by substantially revising provisions to permit a board of education to use federal funds for a school building project and such federal funds shall be deemed to be part or all of the town's local share for the project, effective June 29, 2023; (Revisor's note: In 2024, references to “the effective date of this section” in Subsec. (b)(1) were changed editorially by the Revisors to “July 1, 2022” for accuracy).
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Sec. 10-265s. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning system pipeline training pilot program. (a) Not later than March 1, 2023, the Office of Workforce Strategy, in consultation with the Labor Department, Office of Higher Education and Technical Education and Career System, shall establish, within available appropriations, a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system pipeline training pilot program. The pilot program shall develop preapprenticeship workforce pipeline training programs that are (1) designed to identify and support the training of individuals from underserved and underrepresented populations and historically marginalized communities in the installation and maintenance of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, and any associated trades related to the installation and maintenance of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, (2) offered to such individuals, and (3) include comprehensive career navigational and wraparound training services including, but not limited to, recruitment, job coaching, supportive services inclusive of transportation services and job placement support. The office shall utilize the selection criteria developed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section to select organizations to provide services as part of the pilot program.
(b) The Office of Workforce Strategy, in consultation with the Labor Department, shall develop selection criteria prioritizing (1) low-income and underrepresented individuals who reside in a municipality with a population of more than one hundred thousand, and (2) nonprofit and community-based organizations currently serving low-income and underrepresented individuals.
(c) The Office of Workforce Strategy, in consultation with the Labor Department, the Office of Higher Education and the Technical Education and Career System, may identify recent heating, ventilation and air conditioning system program participants in the state and support such participants in transitioning into a career to immediately fill existing heating, ventilation and air conditioning system talent demands.
(d) Not later than December 1, 2023, the Office of Workforce Strategy shall submit a report to the Governor and the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education, higher education and employment advancement and labor and public employees, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, the number of individuals who have enrolled in a training program offered as part of the pilot program, the number of individuals who have completed such training programs, and the number of individuals who have completed such training program and obtained a permanent job in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system sector.
(P.A. 22-118, S. 368; P.A. 23-160, S. 13.)
History: P.A. 22-118 effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 23-160 made a technical change in Subsec. (d), effective June 28, 2023.
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Sec. 10-265t. Bond issue for school air quality improvement grants. (a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this section, the State Bond Commission shall have the power from time to time to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series and in principal amounts not exceeding in the aggregate three hundred seventy-five million dollars, provided one hundred fifty million dollars of said authorization shall be effective July 1, 2024.
(b) The proceeds of the sale of said bonds, to the extent of the amount stated in subsection (a) of this section, shall be used by the Department of Administrative Services for the purpose of providing grants-in-aid for school air quality improvements including, but not limited to, upgrades to, replacement of or installation of heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment, provided not more than fifty million dollars of such proceeds may be used to provide reimbursements for such improvements that were completed not earlier than March 1, 2020, and not later than July 1, 2022.
(c) All provisions of section 3-20, or the exercise of any right or power granted thereby, which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section are hereby adopted and shall apply to all bonds authorized by the State Bond Commission pursuant to this section, and temporary notes in anticipation of the money to be derived from the sale of any such bonds so authorized may be issued in accordance with said section 3-20 and from time to time renewed. Such bonds shall mature at such time or times not exceeding twenty years from their respective dates as may be provided in or pursuant to the resolution or resolutions of the State Bond Commission authorizing such bonds. None of said bonds shall be authorized except upon a finding by the State Bond Commission that there has been filed with it a request for such authorization which is signed by or on behalf of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and states such terms and conditions as said commission, in its discretion, may require. Said bonds issued pursuant to this section shall be general obligations of the state and the full faith and credit of the state of Connecticut are pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds as the same become due, and accordingly and as part of the contract of the state with the holders of said bonds, appropriation of all amounts necessary for punctual payment of such principal and interest is hereby made, and the State Treasurer shall pay such principal and interest as the same become due.
(P.A. 22-118, S. 360; P.A. 23-205, S. 58.)
History: P.A. 22-118 effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 23-205 amended Subsec. (a) to increase aggregate authorization from $75,000,000 to $375,000,000, of which $150,000,000 is effective July 1, 2024, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-266m. Transportation grants. (a) A local or regional board of education providing transportation in accordance with the provisions of sections 10-54, 10-66ee, 10-97, 10-158a, 10-273a, 10-277 and 10-281 shall be reimbursed for a percentage of such transportation costs as follows:
(1) The percentage of pupil transportation costs reimbursed to a local board of education shall be determined by (A) ranking each town in the state in descending order from one to one hundred sixty-nine according to such town's adjusted equalized net grand list per capita, as defined in section 10-261; (B) based upon such ranking, and notwithstanding the provisions of section 2-32a, (i) except as otherwise provided in this subparagraph, a percentage of zero shall be assigned to towns ranked from one to thirteen and a percentage of not less than zero nor more than sixty shall be determined for the towns ranked from fourteen to one hundred sixty-nine on a continuous scale, except that any such percentage shall be increased by twenty percentage points in accordance with section 10-97, where applicable, and (ii) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997, and for each fiscal year thereafter, a percentage of zero shall be assigned to towns ranked from one to seventeen and a percentage of not less than zero nor more than sixty shall be determined for the towns ranked from eighteen to one hundred sixty-nine on a continuous scale.
(2) The percentage of pupil transportation costs reimbursed to a regional board of education shall be determined by its ranking. Such ranking shall be determined by (A) multiplying the total population, as defined in section 10-261, of each town in the district by such town's ranking, as determined in subdivision (1) of this subsection, (B) adding together the figures determined under subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, and (C) dividing the total computed under subparagraph (B) of this subdivision by the total population of all towns in the district. The ranking of each regional board of education shall be rounded to the next higher whole number and each such board shall receive the same reimbursement percentage as would a town with the same rank, provided such percentage shall be increased in the case of a secondary regional school district by an additional five percentage points and, in the case of any other regional school district by an additional ten percentage points.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997, and for each fiscal year thereafter, no local or regional board of education shall receive a grant of less than one thousand dollars.
(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2004, to June 30, 2019, inclusive, and for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2024, and June 30, 2025, inclusive, the amount of transportation grants payable to local or regional boards of education shall be reduced proportionately if the total of such grants in such year exceeds the amount appropriated for such grants for such year.
(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the Commissioner of Education may provide grants, within available appropriations, in an amount not to exceed two thousand dollars per pupil, to local and regional boards of education and regional educational service centers that transport (A) out-of-district students to a technical education and career school located in Hartford, or (B) Hartford students attending a technical education and career school or a regional agricultural science and technology education center outside of the district, 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, for the costs associated with such transportation.
(6) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, in addition to the reimbursements and grants payable under subdivisions (1) to (5), inclusive, of this subsection, the Commissioner of Education shall provide a grant when (A) two or more boards of education enter into a cooperative agreement in accordance with section 10-158a to transport students to schools operated by the boards of education during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, and (B) such cooperative arrangement results in a savings, as determined by the commissioner, over the transportation costs incurred by the boards of education during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010. This grant, which shall be returned to the municipalities in which the participating boards of education are located in accordance with the terms of the written cooperative arrangement, shall be equal to half of the difference in the amount the boards of education would have been reimbursed in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, for pupil transportation costs but for the savings realized in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, pursuant to the cooperative arrangement.
(b) A cooperative arrangement established pursuant to section 10-158a which provides transportation in accordance with said section shall be reimbursed for a percentage of such transportation costs in accordance with its ranking pursuant to this subsection. The ranking shall be determined by (1) multiplying the total population, as defined in section 10-261, of each town in the cooperative arrangement by such town's ranking as determined pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, (2) adding such products, and (3) dividing such sum by the total population of all towns in the cooperative arrangement. The ranking of each cooperative arrangement shall be rounded to the next higher whole number and each cooperative arrangement shall receive the same reimbursement percentage as a town with the same rank.
(P.A. 79-128, S. 23, 36; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-4, S. 6, 8; P.A. 85-476, S. 3, 6; P.A. 86-71, S. 2, 11; P.A. 89-355, S. 11, 20; P.A. 92-262, S. 29, 42; P.A. 93-133, S. 2, 3; P.A. 96-178, S. 4, 18; P.A. 97-247, S. 18, 27; 97-290, S. 27, 29; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 9; P.A. 05-245, S. 17; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3, S. 4; P.A. 08-170, S. 12; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6, S. 23; P.A. 10-167, S. 2; P.A. 11-48, S. 182; 11-136, S. 20; P.A. 14-217, S. 97, 108; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 252, 317; P.A. 17-237, S. 81; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 581; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 414; P.A. 23-204, S. 316.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-4 amended Subsec. (b) clarifying that total population figures, as defined in Sec. 10-261, are to be used to determine percentage of costs to be reimbursed; P.A. 85-476 amended section to specify that reimbursement percentage is determined by ranking, to provide that ranking is to be rounded to next higher whole number and to provide for reimbursement at same percentage as for a town with the same rank; P.A. 86-71 in Subsec. (a) provided for increasing the percentage in accordance with Sec. 10-97 and in Subsec. (b) substituted percentage points for per cent re increases for regional school districts; P.A. 89-355 in Subsec. (a) changed the reimbursement percentage sliding scale of 20% to 70% to 10% to 60%; P.A. 92-262 amended Subsec. (a) to add reference to Sec. 2-32a and to substitute zero for ten; P.A. 93-133 replaced alphabetic Subdiv. indicators with numerics and numeric Subpara. indicators with alphabetics, amended Subdiv. (1)(B) to add the two categories of towns based on their ranking and to assign a percentage of zero for the towns ranked from one to thirteen and to limit the existing percentage of not less than zero nor more than 60% to towns ranked from fourteen to one hundred sixty-nine and made technical changes in Subdivs. (1) and (2), effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 96-178 amended Subdiv. (1) to make the existing Subpara. (B) into (i), adding (ii) re assignment of percentage for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997, and each fiscal year thereafter, and added Subdiv. (3) requiring minimum grant of $1,000 for each local or regional board of education, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 97-247 designated the existing section as Subsec. (a), adding reference to Sec. 10-158a and making a technical change, and added Subsec. (b) re cooperative arrangements, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 97-290 added reference to Sec. 10-66ee, effective July 1, 1997; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 amended Subsec. (a) by adding Subdiv. (4) re proportional reduction of grants for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2004, and June 30, 2005, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 05-245 amended Subsec. (a)(4) to extend the proportional reduction of grants through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, effective July 1, 2005; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3 amended Subsec. (a)(4) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, effective July 1, 2007; P.A. 08-170 amended Subsec. (a) to add Subdiv. (5) re grants that assist in meeting goals of stipulation re Sheff v. O'Neill, effective July 1, 2008; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6 made a technical change in Subsec. (a)(1), amended Subsec. (a)(4) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, and amended Subsec. (a)(5) to add Subpara. (A) re transportation of out-of-district students to technical high schools located in Hartford and to designate as Subpara. (B) provision re Hartford students attending technical high school or regional agricultural science and technology education center outside of district, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 10-167 added Subsec. (a)(6) re additional grant available for fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, when 2 or more boards of education enter into cooperative agreements to transport students and realize savings, effective June 7, 2010; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (a)(4) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-136 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “this section” with “this subsection” in Subdivs. (2) and (3), effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 14-217 amended Subsec. (a)(4) by replacing reference to June 30, 2013, with reference to June 30, 2015, effective June 13, 2014, and amended Subsec. (a)(5) by adding “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 amended Subsec. (a) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, in Subdiv. (4) and to add “as extended” re 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al. in Subdiv. (5), effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 17-237 amended Subsec. (a)(5) by replacing references to technical high school and technical high school with references to technical education and career school and making a conforming change, effective July 1, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a)(4) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, effective October 31, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (a)(5) by replacing “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” 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; P.A. 23-204 amended Subsec. (a)(4) to extend proportional reduction of grants through fiscal years ending June 30, 2024, and June 30, 2025, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-266p. Priority school district grant program. (a) The State Board of Education shall administer a priority school district grant program to assist certain school districts to improve student achievement and enhance educational opportunities. The priority school district grant program shall be for school districts in (1) the eight towns in the state with the largest population, based on the most recent federal decennial census, (2) towns which rank for the first fiscal year of each biennium from one to eleven when all towns are ranked in descending order from one to one hundred sixty-nine based on the number of children under the temporary family assistance program, as defined in subdivision (17) of section 10-262f, plus the mastery count of the town, as defined in subdivision (13) of section 10-262f, and (3) towns which rank for the first fiscal year of each biennium one to eleven when all towns are ranked in descending order from one to one hundred sixty-nine based on the ratio of the number of children under the temporary family assistance program as so defined to the resident students of such town, as defined in subdivision (22) of section 10-262f, plus the grant mastery percentage of the town, as defined in subdivision (12) of section 10-262f. The State Board of Education shall utilize the categorical grant program established under this section and sections 10-266q and 10-266r and other educational resources of the state to work cooperatively with such school districts during any school year to improve their educational programs or early reading intervention programs. Subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of section 10-276a, the State Board of Education shall allocate one million dollars to each of the eight towns described in subdivision (1) of this subsection and five hundred thousand dollars to each of the towns described in subdivisions (2) and (3) of this subsection, except the towns described in subdivision (1) of this subsection shall not receive any additional allocation if they are also described in subdivision (2) or (3) of this subsection.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, any town which received a grant pursuant to this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and which does not qualify for a grant pursuant to subsection (a) of this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, shall receive grants for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, June 30, 2001, and June 30, 2002, in amounts determined in accordance with this subsection. (1) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, in an amount equal to the difference between (A) the amount of the grant such town received pursuant to this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and (B) an amount equal to twenty-five per cent of the difference between (i) the amount of the grant such town received pursuant to this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and (ii) the amount of the grants received by transitional school districts pursuant to section 10-263c. (2) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, in an amount equal to the difference between (A) the amount of the grant such town received pursuant to this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and (B) an amount equal to fifty per cent of the difference between (i) the amount of the grant such town received pursuant to this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and (ii) the amount of the grants received by transitional school districts pursuant to section 10-263c. (3) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, in an amount equal to the difference between (A) the amount of the grant such town received pursuant to this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and (B) an amount equal to seventy-five per cent of the difference between (i) the amount of the grant such town received pursuant to this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and (ii) the amount of the grants received by transitional school districts pursuant to section 10-263c.
(c) In addition to the amount allocated pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997, and each fiscal year thereafter, the State Board of Education shall allocate (1) seven hundred fifty thousand dollars to each town that ranked from one to three, inclusive, in population pursuant to subdivision (1) of said subsection (a) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, and three hundred thirty-four thousand dollars to each town that ranked from four to eight, inclusive, in population pursuant to said subdivision for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, and (2) one hundred eighty thousand dollars to each of the towns described in subdivisions (2) and (3) of said subsection (a), except that the towns described in subdivision (1) of said subsection (a) shall not receive any additional allocation pursuant to subdivision (2) of this subsection if they are also described in subdivision (2) or (3) of said subsection (a).
(d) In addition to the amounts allocated pursuant to subsections (a) and (c) of this section, the State Board of Education shall allocate a share, in the same proportion as the total amount allocated pursuant to said subsections, of two million five hundred thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, and three million dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and each fiscal year thereafter, to each of the towns receiving a grant pursuant to this section.
(e) In addition to the amounts allocated pursuant to subsections (a), (c) and (d) of this section, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, and each fiscal year thereafter, the State Board of Education shall allocate (1) one million five hundred thousand dollars to the town which ranks one in population pursuant to subdivision (1) of said subsection (a), (2) one million dollars to each town which ranks from two to four, inclusive, in population pursuant to said subdivision (1), (3) six hundred thousand dollars to the town which ranks five in population pursuant to said subdivision (1), (4) five hundred thousand dollars to each town which ranks from six to eight, inclusive, in population pursuant to said subdivision (1), and (5) two hundred fifty thousand dollars to each of the towns described in subdivisions (2) and (3) of said subsection (a), except that the towns described in subdivision (1) of said subsection (a) shall not receive any additional allocation pursuant to subdivision (5) of this subsection if they are also described in subdivision (2) or (3) of said subsection (a).
(f) In addition to the amounts allocated in subsection (a), and subsections (c) to (e), inclusive, of this section, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, the State Board of Education shall allocate two million thirty-nine thousand six hundred eighty-six dollars to the towns that rank one to three, inclusive, in population pursuant to subdivision (1) of said subsection (a), and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, and each fiscal year thereafter, the State Board of Education shall allocate two million six hundred ten thousand seven hundred ninety-eight dollars to the towns that ranked one to three, inclusive, in population pursuant to subdivision (1) of said subsection (a) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022.
(g) In addition to the amounts allocated in subsection (a) and subsections (c) to (f), inclusive, of this section, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, and each fiscal year thereafter, the State Board of Education shall allocate two million eight hundred eighty-two thousand three hundred sixty-eight dollars as follows: Each priority school district shall receive an allocation based on the ratio of the amount it is eligible to receive pursuant to subsection (a) of this section and subsections (c) to (f), inclusive, of this section to the total amount all priority school districts are eligible to receive pursuant to subsection (a) of this section and subsections (c) to (f), inclusive, of this section. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, a priority school district may carry forward any unexpended funds allocated after May 1, 2016, pursuant to this subsection, into the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017.
(h) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, and for each fiscal year thereafter, no town receiving a grant pursuant to this section shall receive a grant that is in an amount that is less than one hundred fifty dollars per pupil. For the purposes of this subsection, the amount of the grant on a per pupil basis shall be determined by dividing the total amount that a town receives for a grant under this section by the number of resident students, as defined in subdivision (22) of section 10-262f, of the local or regional school district for which the town receives a grant under this section.
(i) In addition to the amounts allocated in subsection (a) and subsections (c) to (h), inclusive, of this section, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, and each fiscal year thereafter, the State Board of Education shall allocate two million twenty thousand dollars to the town ranked sixth when all towns are ranked from highest to lowest in population, based on the most recent federal decennial census, except that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, and each fiscal year thereafter, the State Board of Education shall allocate two million two hundred seventy thousand dollars to said town.
(j) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, and each fiscal year thereafter, the amount of the grants payable to local or regional boards of education in accordance with this section shall be reduced proportionately if the total of such grants in such year exceeds the amount appropriated for the purposes of this section for such year.
(P.A. 84-265, S. 1, 4; P.A. 87-499, S. 18, 34; P.A. 92-262, S. 30, 42; P.A. 93-145, S. 4, 6; P.A. 93-263, S. 13, 14; P.A. 94-245, S. 3, 46; P.A. 95-226, S. 24, 29, 30; P.A. 96-178, S. 5, 18; P.A. 97-318, S. 6, 12; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2, S. 14, 165; P.A. 99-224, S. 1–3, 9; June Sp. Sess. P. A. 01-1, S. 33, 54; P.A. 03-76, S. 35; 03-278, S. 116; P.A. 04-254, S. 4; P.A. 05-245, S. 27; P.A. 06-135, S. 27; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3, S. 7; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 47; P.A. 08-170, S. 3; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6, S. 35; P.A. 11-6, S. 57; 11-48, S. 201; P.A. 13-247, S. 171; P.A. 14-39, S. 11; 14-217, S. 109; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 306, 335; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-2, S. 37, 38; P.A. 19-130, S. 2; P.A. 23-204, S. 323, 324.)
History: P.A. 87-499 made the program permanent rather than a three-year pilot; P.A. 92-262 changed the eligibility criteria for the program, reduced the number of towns able to participate and changed the provisions pertaining to the allocation of funds; P.A. 93-145 amended Subdivs. (2) and (3) to include towns ranked to eleven instead of ten, changed the allocation for the towns described in Subdiv. (1) to grants of $1,000,000 each from 80% “of the amount appropriated for purposes of the program for grants in equal amounts” and for the towns described in Subdivs. (2) and (3) to grants of $500,000 each from 20% “of the amount so appropriated for grants in equal amounts” and made a technical change, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-263 repealed section, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 94-245 added Subsec. (b) re grants for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1995, effective June 2, 1994; P.A. 95-226 amended Subsec. (a) to require the rankings to be for the first fiscal year of each biennium, added Subsec. (b)(2) re grants for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1996, and June 30, 1997, and repealed P.A. 93-263, S. 13 which had repealed the section, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-178 amended Subsec. (a) to allow the grants to be used to provide early childhood education or early reading intervention programs and added Subsec. (c) re further allocation for fiscal years commencing after July 1, 1996, and a requirement that an amount at least equal to 25% of the amount received pursuant to Subsec. (c) be used for early childhood education or reading intervention programs, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 97-318 amended Subsec. (c) by deleting requirement to use at least 25% of funds for early childhood education or reading intervention programs, and added Subsec. (d) re additional funds, effective July 1, 1997; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “aid to families with dependent children” with “temporary family assistance”, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 99-224 amended Subsec. (a) to stipulate that the allocation of the $1,000,000 to each of the eight towns described in Subdiv. (1) is subject to the provisions of Sec. 10-276a(c), amended Subsec. (b) to replace obsolete phase-out provisions for school districts that no longer qualify for grants pursuant to Subsec. (a) with a new phase-out formula for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, to June 30, 2002, inclusive, and amended Subsec. (d) to add provision for the allocation of shares in the $3,000,000 to continue for “each fiscal year thereafter”, effective July 1, 1999; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1 amended Subsec. (a) to specify that the grant program includes the priority school district portions of the grant programs established pursuant to Secs. 10-16p, 10-265f, 10-265m and 10-266t, to specify that the component parts of the grant be allocated in accordance with said Secs. and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 03-76, effective June 3, 2003, and P.A. 03-278, effective July 9, 2003, made technical changes in Subsec. (a); P.A. 04-254 added Subsec. (e) re additional grant allocations beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 05-245 added Subsec. (f) re allocations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2006, and June 30, 2007, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-135 added Subsec. (g) re allocations for fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, and each fiscal year thereafter, effective July 1, 2006; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3 added Subsecs. (h) and (i) re minimum per pupil grant and re town ranked the sixth largest in population, effective July 1, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 amended Subsec. (f) to extend allocation of $2,610,798 through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, and amended Subsec. (g) to increase amount of allocation to $4,750,990, effective October 6, 2007; P.A. 08-170 amended Subsec. (g) to reduce funding for fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, and fiscal years thereafter, from $4,750,990 to $4,160,122, effective July 1, 2008; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-6 amended Subsec. (f) by replacing “June 30, 2008, and June 30, 2009” with “to June 30, 2011” and amended Subsec. (g) by replacing “four million one hundred sixty thousand one hundred twenty-two” with “three million seven hundred forty thousand five hundred seventy-three”, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 11-6 amended Subsec. (g) by reducing funding for fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, from $3,740,573 to $3,216,908 and adding funding for fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (f) by replacing “2011” with “2013”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-247 amended Subsec. (i) by increasing allocation from $650,000 to $2,020,000, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-39 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting references to Sec. 10-16p and to early childhood education, effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 14-217 amended Subsec. (f) by replacing reference to June 30, 2013, with reference to June 30, 2015, and amended Subsec. (g) by deleting “and each fiscal year thereafter”, replacing reference to June 30, 2013, with reference to June 30, 2014, changing allocation amount therefor from $2,929,364 to $2,925,481, adding provision re allocation for fiscal year ending June 30, 2015 and adding provision re carry forward of unexpended funds into fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, effective June 13, 2014; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 amended Subsec. (i) by adding exception re allocation of $2,200,070 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, and added Subsec. (j) re proportional reduction of grants for fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, and each fiscal year thereafter, effective July 1, 2015; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-2 amended Subsec. (f) by replacing “to June 30, 2015” with “and each fiscal year thereafter”, amended Subsec. (g) by deleting provisions re allocation for fiscal years ending June 30, 2012, and June 30, 2014, adding “and each fiscal year thereafter” in provision re allocation for fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, and replacing “2014” with “2016” and replacing “2015” with “2017” in provision re carry forward of unexpended funds and amended Subsec. (i) by adding “and each fiscal year thereafter” and replacing $2,200,070 with $2,270,000 in provision re fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, effective June 2, 2016; P.A. 19-130 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting references to Secs. 10-265f, 10-265m and 10-266t, deleting “and its component parts” and making technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 23-204 amended Subsec. (c)(1) by adding “for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022,” and making technical changes, and amended Subsec. (f) by adding “for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022” and making a conforming change, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-266aa. State-wide interdistrict public school attendance program. (a) As used in this section:
(1) “Receiving district” means any school district that accepts students under the program established pursuant to this section;
(2) “Sending district” means any school district that sends students it would otherwise be legally responsible for educating to another school district under the program; and
(3) “Minority students” means students who are “pupils of racial minorities”, as defined in section 10-226a.
(b) There is established, within available appropriations, an interdistrict public school attendance program. The purpose of the program shall be to: (1) Improve academic achievement; (2) reduce racial, ethnic and economic isolation or preserve racial and ethnic balance; and (3) provide a choice of educational programs. The Department of Education shall provide oversight for the program, including the setting of reasonable limits for the transportation of students participating in the program, and may provide for the incremental expansion of the program for the school year commencing in 2000 for each town required to participate in the program pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.
(c) The program shall be phased in as provided in this subsection. (1) For the school year commencing in 1998, and for each school year thereafter, the program shall be in operation in the Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport regions. The Hartford program shall operate as a continuation of the program described in section 10-266j. Students who reside in Hartford, New Haven or Bridgeport may attend school in another school district in the region and students who reside in such other school districts may attend school in Hartford, New Haven or Bridgeport, provided, beginning with the 2001-2002 school year, the proportion of students who are not minority students to the total number of students leaving Hartford, Bridgeport or New Haven to participate in the program shall not be greater than the proportion of students who were not minority students in the prior school year to the total number of students enrolled in Hartford, Bridgeport or New Haven in the prior school year. The regional educational service center operating the program shall make program participation decisions in accordance with the requirements of this subdivision. (2) For the school year commencing in 2000, and for each school year thereafter, the program shall be in operation in New London, provided beginning with the 2001-2002 school year, the proportion of students who are not minority students to the total number of students leaving New London to participate in the program shall not be greater than the proportion of students who were not minority students in the prior year to the total number of students enrolled in New London in the prior school year. The regional educational service center operating the program shall make program participation decisions in accordance with this subdivision. (3) The Department of Education may provide, within available appropriations, grants for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, to the remaining regional educational service centers to assist school districts in planning for a voluntary program of student enrollment in every priority school district, pursuant to section 10-266p, which is interested in participating in accordance with this subdivision. For the school year commencing in 2003, and for each school year thereafter, the voluntary enrollment program may be in operation in every priority school district in the state. Students from other school districts in the area of a priority school district, as determined by the regional educational service center pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, may attend school in the priority school district, provided such students bring racial, ethnic and economic diversity to the priority school district and do not increase the racial, ethnic and economic isolation in the priority school district. (4) For the school year commencing July 1, 2022, there shall be a pilot program in operation in Danbury and Norwalk. The pilot program shall serve (A) up to fifty students who reside in Danbury, and such students may attend school in the school districts for the towns of New Fairfield, Brookfield, Bethel, Ridgefield and Redding, and (B) up to fifty students who reside in Norwalk, and such students may attend school in the school districts for the towns of Darien, New Canaan, Wilton, Weston and Westport. School districts which receive students from Danbury and Norwalk under the pilot program during the school year commencing July 1, 2022, shall allow such students to attend school in the district until they graduate from high school. (5) For the school year commencing July 1, 2022, and each school year thereafter, the town of Guilford shall be eligible to participate in the program as a receiving district and a sending district with New Haven.
(d) School districts which received students from New London under the program during the school year commencing July 1, 2000, shall allow such students to attend school in the district until they graduate from high school. The attendance of such students in such program shall not be supported by grants pursuant to subsections (f) and (g) of this section but shall be supported, in the same amounts as provided for in said subsections, by interdistrict cooperative grants pursuant to section 10-74d to the regional educational service centers operating such programs.
(e) Once the program is in operation in the region served by a regional educational service center pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, the Department of Education shall provide an annual grant to such regional educational service center to assist school districts in its area in administering the program and to provide staff to assist students participating in the program to make the transition to a new school and to act as a liaison between the parents of such students and the new school district. Each regional educational service center shall determine which school districts in its area are located close enough to a priority school district to make participation in the program feasible in terms of student transportation pursuant to subsection (f) of this section, provided any student participating in the program prior to July 1, 1999, shall be allowed to continue to attend the same school such student attended prior to said date in the receiving district until the student completes the highest grade in such school. If there are more students who seek to attend school in a receiving district than there are spaces available, the regional educational service center shall assist the school district in determining attendance by the use of a lottery or lotteries designed to preserve or increase racial, ethnic and economic diversity, except that the regional educational service center shall give preference to siblings and to students who would otherwise attend a school that has lost its accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges or has been identified as in need of improvement pursuant to the No Child Left Behind Act, P.L. 107-110. The admission policies shall be consistent with section 10-15c and this section. No receiving district shall recruit students under the program for athletic or extracurricular purposes. Each receiving district shall allow out-of-district students it accepts to attend school in the district until they graduate from high school.
(f) The Department of Education shall provide grants to regional educational service centers or local or regional boards of education for the reasonable cost of transportation for students participating in the program. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, and each fiscal year thereafter, the department shall provide such grants within available appropriations, provided the state-wide average of such grants does not exceed an amount equal to three thousand two hundred fifty dollars for each student transported, except that the Commissioner of Education may grant to regional educational service centers or local or regional boards of education additional sums from funds remaining in the appropriation for such transportation services if needed to offset transportation costs that exceed such maximum amount. The regional educational service centers shall provide reasonable transportation services to high school students who wish to participate in supervised extracurricular activities. For purposes of this section, the number of students transported shall be determined on October first of each fiscal year.
(g) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (2) and (3) of this subsection, the Department of Education shall provide, within available appropriations, an annual grant to the local or regional board of education for each receiving district (A) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program, and (B) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, in an amount at least two thousand five hundred dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program.
(2) (A) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, and each fiscal year thereafter, the department shall provide, within available appropriations, an annual grant to the local or regional board of education for each receiving district if one of the following conditions are met as follows: (i) (I) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, three thousand dollars, and (II) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at least three thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program if the number of such out-of-district students is less than two per cent of the total student population of such receiving district plus any amount available pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this subdivision, (ii) (I) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, four thousand dollars, and (II) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at least four thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program if the number of such out-of-district students is greater than or equal to two per cent but less than three per cent of the total student population of such receiving district plus any amount available pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this subdivision, (iii) (I) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, six thousand dollars, and (II) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at least six thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program if the number of such out-of-district students is greater than or equal to three per cent but less than four per cent of the total student population of such receiving district plus any amount available pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this subdivision, (iv) (I) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, six thousand dollars, and (II) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at least six thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program if the Commissioner of Education determines that the receiving district has an enrollment of greater than four thousand students and has increased the number of students in the program by at least fifty per cent from the previous fiscal year plus any amount available pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this subdivision, or (v) (I) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, eight thousand dollars, and (II) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at least eight thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program if the number of such out-of-district students is greater than or equal to four per cent of the total student population of such receiving district plus any amount available pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this subdivision.
(B) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and each fiscal year thereafter, the department shall, in order to assist the state in meeting its obligations under commitment 9B of the Comprehensive School Choice Plan pursuant to the settlement in Sheff v. O'Neill, HHD-X07-CV89-4026240-S, provide, within available appropriations, an additional grant to the local or regional board of education for each receiving district in the amount of two thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who resides in the Hartford region and attends school in the receiving district under the program.
(3) (A) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, the department shall provide a grant to the local or regional board of education for each receiving district described in subdivision (4) of subsection (c) of this section in an amount of four thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who resides in Danbury or Norwalk and attends school in the receiving district under the pilot program.
(B) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and each fiscal year thereafter, the department shall provide an annual grant to the local or regional board of education for each receiving district described in subdivision (4) of subsection (c) of this section for each out-of-district student who resides in Danbury or Norwalk and attends school in the receiving district under the pilot program in accordance with the provisions of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection.
(C) Not later than January 1, 2025, the department shall submit a report on the pilot program in operation in Danbury and Norwalk, pursuant to subdivision (4) of subsection (c) of this section, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education and appropriations, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a. Such report shall include, but need not be limited to, the total number of students participating in the pilot program, the number of students from each town participating in the pilot program, the total amount of the grant paid under the pilot program and the amount of the grant paid to each town participating in the pilot program.
(4) Each town which receives funds pursuant to this subsection 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.
(h) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, each sending district and each receiving district shall divide the number of children participating in the program who reside in such district or attend school in such district by two for purposes of the counts for subdivision (22) of section 10-262f and subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 10-261.
(i) In the case of an out-of-district student who requires special education and related services, the sending district shall pay the receiving district an amount equal to the difference between the reasonable cost of providing such special education and related services to such student and the amount received by the receiving district pursuant to subsection (g) of this section and in the case of students participating pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, the per pupil amount received pursuant to section 10-74d. The sending district shall be eligible for reimbursement pursuant to section 10-76g.
(j) Nothing in this section shall prohibit school districts from charging tuition to other school districts that do not have a high school pursuant to section 10-33.
(k) On or before March first of each year, the Commissioner of Education shall determine if the enrollment in the program pursuant to subsection (c) of this section for the fiscal year is below the number of students for which funds were appropriated. If the commissioner determines that the enrollment is below such number, the additional funds shall be used by the commissioner in accordance with this subsection.
(1) Any amount up to five hundred thousand dollars of such additional funds shall be used for supplemental grants to receiving districts on a pro rata basis for each out-of-district student in the program pursuant to subsection (c) of this section who attends the same school in the receiving district as at least nine other such out-of-district students, not to exceed one thousand dollars per student.
(2) Any amount up to and including five hundred thousand dollars of such additional funds available after payment is made pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection shall be paid to the State Education Resource Center, established pursuant to section 10-357a, to provide professional development to certified employees, in accordance with the provisions of section 10-148a, and training for other school personnel in receiving districts.
(3) Any amount up to and including two million dollars of such additional funds remaining after payment is made pursuant to subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection shall be used for the provision of wrap-around services to students participating in the program, including, but not limited to, academic tutoring, family support and experiential learning opportunities.
(l) For purposes of the state-wide mastery examinations under section 10-14n, students participating in the program established pursuant to this section shall be considered residents of the school district in which they attend school.
(m) Within available appropriations, the commissioner may make grants to regional education service centers which provide summer school educational programs approved by the commissioner to students participating in the program.
(n) The Commissioner of Education may provide grants for children in the Hartford program described in this section to participate in preschool and all day kindergarten programs. In addition to the subsidy provided to the receiving district for educational services, such grants may be used for the provision of before and after-school care and remedial services for the preschool and kindergarten students participating in the program.
(o) Within available appropriations, the commissioner may make grants for academic student support for programs pursuant to this section that 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.
(P.A. 97-290, S. 3, 29; P.A. 98-168, S. 23, 26; 98-252, S. 34, 80; P.A. 99-5, S. 1, 2; 99-289, S. 1, 11; P.A. 00-187, S. 15–17, 75; 00-220, S. 19, 43; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1, S. 29, 54; P.A. 03-76, S. 48; 03-168, S. 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 18; P.A. 04-26, S. 6; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 78; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3, S. 9, 10; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 49, 71; P.A. 08-170, S. 6; P.A. 11-48, S. 188; P.A. 12-116, S. 12; P.A. 13-108, S. 2; 13-247, S. 168; P.A. 14-217, S. 98; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 255, 318; P.A. 17-14, S. 10; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 365; P.A. 22-80, S. 27, 28; 22-118, S. 270; P.A. 23-167, S. 19; 23-204, S. 345.)
History: P.A. 97-290 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-168 amended Subsec. (b)(3) to specify that the program is for students enrolled in the public schools, and provided for oversight by the Department of Education, amended Subsec. (c) to require the Hartford program to operate as a continuation of the program described in Sec. 10-266j, amended Subsec. (d) to allow school districts to transfer students in the program to a different school if the district is changing school attendance areas on a district-wide basis, amended Subsec. (e) to increase grant amount from $1,000 to $1,200 and to limit requirement for after-school transportation to high school students participating in supervised extracurricular activities, and amended Subsec. (g) to delete provision re not counting children for purposes of any other count under Secs. 10-262f and 10-261, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 98-252 amended Subsec. (f) to specify that the grant is provided to the board of education and to add provision re funds to be made available to the board of education in supplement to other funds to which the board is entitled, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 99-5 amended Subsec. (e) to delete provision that transportation grants be within available appropriations and to add provision that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, and each fiscal year thereafter, such grants shall be within available appropriations, effective April 9, 1999; P.A. 99-289 amended Subsec. (b) to include the setting of reasonable transportation limits, amended Subsec. (c) to extend the time for planning grants to include the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, and to make the provision of such grants permissive, to renumber Subdiv. (3) as Subdiv. (4) and to add new Subdiv. (3) re program operation in New Britain, New London, Waterbury and Windham, to change the date in Subdiv. (4) from the school year commencing in 1999 to school year commencing in 2000, and to substitute program operation in every priority school district for operation in every school district, amended Subsec. (d) to increase the amount of the grant from $100,000 to $175,000, to provide for staff to assist participating students and act as a liaison, to require the regional educational service centers to determine feasible distances for student transportation provided students participating in the program prior to July 1, 1999, are allowed to continue to attend the same school until they complete the highest grade in the school, to make the meetings with school districts annual, to require the reports on spaces to be made by March thirty-first and to require the regional educational service centers to provide a count to the department by April fifteenth, and to substitute provision allowing students to attend school in the district until they graduate from high school for provision allowing them to complete the highest grade in the school they are attending under the program, relettered Subsec. (e) as Subsec. (f), added new Subsec. (e) re records, amended Subsec. (f) to add “state-wide average” and to increase the amount from $1,200 to $2,000, relettered Subsecs. (f), (g), (h) and (i) as Subsecs. (g), (h), (i) and (j) and added Subsec. (k) re determination on level of enrollment, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 00-187 amended Subsec. (b) to give the department authority for the incremental expansion of the program, amended former Subsec. (f), redesignated as Subsec. (e) pursuant to P.A. 00-220, to increase the limit for the state-wide average from $2,000 to $2,100 and added Subsec. (l), redesignated as Subsec. (k) pursuant to P.A. 00-220, re state-wide mastery examinations, effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 00-220 deleted former Subsec. (e) re transfer of records and relettered Subsecs. (f) to (k) as (e) to (j), in new Subsec. (e) added provision concerning the determination of the number of students transported on September first of each fiscal year, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2000; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1 in Subsec. (a) defined “minority students”, in Subsec. (b) removed “state-wide” from description of the program, in Subsec. (c) deleted existing Subdiv. (1) to remove obsolete language, renumbered part of existing Subdiv. (2) as Subdiv. (1) and part as Subdiv. (3), added requirement in Subdiv. (1) re the proportion of students who are not minority students, added new Subdiv. (2) re New London program, made existing Subdiv. (4) part of Subdiv. (3), in Subdiv. (3) changed the applicable fiscal year to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, made the program in other priority school districts voluntary and based participation in the voluntary program on bringing racial, ethnic and economic diversity to the priority school district, redesignated existing Subsecs. (d) to (k) as Subsecs. (e) to (l), added new Subsec. (d) re school districts receiving students from New London, in Subsec. (e) deleted reference to $175,000 annual grant to a regional educational service center and specified that admission policies shall be consistent with provisions of section, in Subsec. (i) added limitation for amount in case of students participating pursuant to Subsec. (d) and in Subsec. (k) specified that determination of enrollment is the program pursuant to Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 03-76 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective June 3, 2003; P.A. 03-168 amended Subsec. (e) by making a technical change and adding provision re the No Child Left Behind Act, effective July 1, 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 amended Subsec. (f) by changing “June 30, 2000,” to “June 30, 2003,” and adding provision giving commissioner discretion to grant additional money to offset transportation costs, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-26 made technical changes in Subsec. (e), effective April 28, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 added Subsec. (m) re summer school educational programs, effective July 1, 2005; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3 amended Subsec. (f) to increase maximum grant from $2,100 to $3,250 per pupil, amended Subsec. (g) to increase per pupil grant from $2,000 to $2,500 and amended Subsec. (k) to increase maximum amount that may be used for supplemental grants from $350,000 to $500,000, effective July 1, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 amended Sec. 41 of June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-6, added editorially by the Revisors as Subsec. (n), to make permanent the grant supporting all day kindergarten for the Hartford program, and added Subsecs. (o) re grants for kindergarten and preschool programs, (p) re grants for academic student support and (q) defining “Sheff region”, effective October 6, 2007; P.A. 08-170 amended Subsec. (n) to add preschool programs, deleted former Subsec. (o) re grants for kindergarten and preschool programs in the Sheff region, redesignated existing Subsec. (p) as Subsec. (o) and replaced provision therein re Sheff region with language re stipulation re Sheff v. O'Neill and deleted former Subsec. (q) re definition of “Sheff region”, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (b)(3) by deleting “for students enrolled in the public schools”, amended Subsec. (g) by designating existing provisions as Subdivs. (1) and (3), adding Subdiv. (2) re per pupil grant to receiving districts for each out-of-district student and making a conforming change in Subdiv. (1), amended Subsec. (k) by replacing “October fifteenth” with “March first”, replacing former Subdiv. (2) re remaining nonlapsing funds to be used for interdistrict cooperative grants with new Subdiv. (2) re nonlapsing funds in amounts from $500,000 up to $1,000,000 to be used for supplemental grants and adding Subdiv. (3) re remaining nonlapsing funds to be used to increase enrollment in interdistrict public school attendance program, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-116 amended Subsec. (g)(2) by replacing reference to fiscal year 2012 with reference to fiscal year 2013, replacing “in an amount equal to (A) three” with “if one of the following conditions are met as follows: (A) Three” and adding Subpara. (D) re $6,000 grant for each out-of-district student if receiving district has greater than 4,000 students and has increased number of students in program by at least 50%, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-108 amended Subsec. (e) by replacing provision re annual meeting with provision re reporting requirement re number of available spaces for out-of-district students, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-247 amended Subsec. (g)(2) by adding “but less than four per cent” in Subpara. (C), replacing “on October 1, 2012” with “from the previous fiscal year” in Subpara. (D), and adding new Subpara. (E) re $8,000 for each out-of-district student if the number of such out-of-district students is greater than or equal to 4 per cent of the total student population, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-217 amended Subsec. (o) by adding “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 amended Subsec. (f) by replacing “year” with “years”, “2003, and each fiscal year thereafter” with “2015, to June 30, 2017, inclusive” and “September” with “October”, and adding “or local or regional boards of education”, and amended Subsec. (o) by adding “as extended” re 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 17-14 amended Subsec. (e) by deleting provision re report on number of spaces available for following school year for out-of-district students, effective July 1, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (c) by adding Subdiv. (4) re pilot program in Danbury and Norwalk, amended Subsec. (d) by replacing “2000-2001 school year” with “school year commencing July 1, 2000,”, amended Subsec. (f) by replacing “fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2017, inclusive” with “fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, and each fiscal year thereafter”, amended Subsec. (g) by replacing “subdivision (2)” with “subdivisions (2) and (3)” in Subdiv. (1), adding new Subdiv. (3) re grants to Danbury and Norwalk, and redesignating existing Subdiv. (3) as Subdiv. (4), and amended Subsec. (o) by replacing “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” 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 July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-80 amended Subsec. (c) by adding Subdiv. (5) re town of Guilford eligible to participate in program as a receiving district and sending district with New Haven, and amended Subsec. (k) by adding new Subdiv. (2) re nonlapsing funds to be paid to State Education Resource Center to provide professional development and training for employees in receiving districts, redesignating existing Subdiv. (2) as Subdiv. (3) and amending same by replacing existing provisions re any amount of nonlapsing funds equal to or greater than $500,000, but less than $1,000,000 to be used for supplemental grants with provision re any remaining nonlapsing funds to be used for provision of wrap-around services to students participating in program, and deleting former Subdiv. (3) re any remaining nonlapsing funds to be used by commissioner to increase enrollment in program, effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 22-118 amended Subsec. (g)(2) by designating existing provisions as new Subpara. (A) and amended same by redesignating existing Subparas. (A) to (E) as clauses (i) to (v) and adding “plus any amount available pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this subdivision” throughout, and adding new Subpara. (B) re additional grant of $2,000 to receiving districts for each student who resides in Hartford region and attends school in receiving district, effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 23-167 amended Subsec. (k) by deleting “not lapse but shall”, replacing references to nonlapsing funds with references to additional funds in Subdivs. (1) and (2), and replacing “such nonlapsing” with “an amount up to and including two million dollars of such additional” in Subdiv. (3), effective July 1, 2023; P.A. 23-204 amended Subsec. (g)(1) by designating existing provision re grant of $2,500 as Subpara. (A) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding Subpara. (B) re grant of at least $2,500 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (g)(2)(A)(i) by designating existing provision re grant of $3,000 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding subclause (II) re grant of at least $3,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (g)(2)(A)(ii) by designating existing provision re grant of $4,000 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding subclause (II) re grant of at least $4,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (g)(2)(A)(iii) by designating existing provision re grant of $6,000 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding subclause (II) re grant of at least $6,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (g)(2)(A)(iv) by designating existing provision re grant of $6,000 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding subclause (II) re grant of at least $6,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (g)(2)(A)(v) by designating existing provision re grant of $8,000 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding subclause (II) re grant of at least $8,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 10-276a. Priority school district phase-out grants. Reduced grants for first year of eligibility for priority school district grants. (a) Commencing with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, if a school district that received a priority school district grant pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10-266p for the prior fiscal year is no longer eligible to receive such a grant, such school district shall receive a priority school district phase-out grant for each of the three fiscal years following the fiscal year such school district received its final priority school district grant. The amount of such phase-out grants shall be determined in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.
(b) (1) For the first fiscal year following the fiscal year such school district received its final priority school district grant, in an amount equal to the difference between (A) the amount of such final grant, and (B) an amount equal to twenty-five per cent of the difference between (i) the amount of such final grant, and (ii) the greater of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or the amount of the grants received by transitional school districts pursuant to section 10-263c. (2) For the second fiscal year following the fiscal year such school district received its final priority school district grant, in an amount equal to the difference between (A) the amount of such final grant, and (B) an amount equal to fifty per cent of the difference between (i) the amount of such final grant, and (ii) the greater of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or the amount of the grants received by transitional school districts pursuant to section 10-263c. (3) For the third fiscal year following the fiscal year such school district received its final priority school district grant, in an amount equal to the difference between (A) the amount of such final grant, and (B) an amount equal to seventy-five per cent of the difference between (i) the amount of such final grant, and (ii) the greater of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or the amount of the grants received by transitional school districts pursuant to section 10-263c.
(c) Commencing with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, if a school district that was not eligible to receive a priority school district grant pursuant to subsection (a) of said section 10-266p, for the prior fiscal year becomes eligible to receive such a grant, the amount of the grant such town receives pursuant to said section for the first year of such eligibility shall be reduced by fifty per cent.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, any school district that would have been in the first fiscal year following the fiscal year such school district received its final priority school district grant, shall receive a grant equal to the amount it received for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023.
(P.A. 99-224, S. 4, 9; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1, S. 42, 54; P.A. 23-204, S. 325; 23-208, S. 7.)
History: P.A. 99-224 effective July 1, 1999; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1 amended Subsec. (b) to add “the greater of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or” in Subdivs. (1)(B)(ii), (2)(B)(ii) and (3)(B)(ii) and amended Subsec. (c) to change June 30, 2002, to June 30, 2004, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 23-204 added Subsec. (d) re any school district that received a phase-out grant in third fiscal year following the fiscal year it received its final priority school district grant during fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, to be eligible to receive a phase-out grant in fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, effective July 1, 2023; P.A. 23-208 amended Subsec. (d) by deleting existing provision re any school district that received a phase-out grant in third fiscal year following the fiscal year it received its final priority school district grant during fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, to be eligible to receive a phase-out grant in fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding provision re any school district that would have been in first fiscal year following receipt of its final priority school district grant shall receive a grant in an amount equal to the amount it received in fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, effective July 1, 2023.
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