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Discusses the truancy program in Atlanta.

Discusses tuition waivers that are available under statute for members of the National Guard.

Discusses whether any states require the public school curriculum to include the teaching of physiology, which might make students appreciate the dangers of abusing their bodies with drugs and alcohol.

Discusses whether the minimum expenditure requirement (MER) is a measure of education quality, and, if not, what its purpose is, how the state assesses the quality of education, and how other states do so.

Discusses special education mandates on school districts.

Discusses which law entitles children requiring special education to receive public school services until they graduate from high school or reach 21 years of age.

Discusses how many students were expelled in 1994 and whether there is information about the reasons for expulsion, duration of expulsion, and age of expelled students.

Discusses whether school districts expel students for the sale or distribution of illegal drugs off school grounds.

Discusses state funded programs involve mentors in education for youth at risk of failure.

Discusses the pros and cons of school uniforms and whether they are standard in Europe.

Discusses reasons offered for and against requiring students to remain in school until age 18.

Discusses whether teachers must pay professional licensing fees in the other New England states and whether lawyers employed by the public sector are exempt from their annual licensing fees.

Discusses the income eligibility requirement for vouchers under SB 209 of the 1995 legislative session, whether the bill would have required parochial schools to accept the voucher amount as full tuition, and what the average tuition is for the state's parochial schools.

Discusses whether there are any studies that relate the economic status of children's families with their academic performance.

Discusses legislation, in states such as Virginia, that prohibits issuing a driver's license to anyone without a high school diploma.

Provides background information on the subject of school choice, including arguments for and against it, states' ways of providing choice other than vouchers, an update of the Milwaukee program, and Connecticut legislation during the past three sessions.

Discusses whether a borough, such as the Borough of Stonington, can apply for state funds for public education and, if so, to whom the borough applies.

Discusses the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and Nathan Hale's activities in Connecticut.

Discusses state laws pertaining to public schools, especially those regarding funding, transportation safety, discipline, and corporal punishment.

Discusses membership of the select committee on skill-training at vocational-technical (vo-tech) schools, established by section 33 of PA 95-318, and the committee's activities so far. Also discusses the program offerings at each vo-tech school and the number of students enrolled in each.

Discusses whether there has been an improvement in school safety since the adoption of the law prohibiting possession of a weapon on school grounds.

Discusses whether the law allows coalitions of towns to share the administration of their schools with common boards of education or develop joint curricula; how the common boards are elected; and what state incentives there are, other than for school construction, to encourage common administrative schemes and curricula among neighboring towns.

Discusses how neutral arbitrators are selected for the Education Department's arbitration panel and, how the single neutral arbitrator is selected from among those arbitrators to serve on a specific panel deciding a collective bargaining dispute.

Discusses whether a person certified as a special education teacher in another state must fulfill the same requirements as a Connecticut resident to be certified in Connecticut and why Connecticut has no certification reciprocity with New York.

Discusses the concept of having a single statewide school district.

Discusses drug education programs in Connecticut, with an emphasis on schools.

Discusses school choice legislation in Ohio and Wisconsin.

Surveyed legislators to evaluate the community-technical colleges' performance of their statutory duties.

Discusses the state's expulsion law.

Discusses state funding available for school districts to invest in computers and computer education.

Discusses setting priorities, planning ahead, exercising judgment, and taking advantage of available resources.

Discusses whether the state requires accreditation or approval of private schools.

Discusses the statutory authority is for the tenth grade mastery test, when the legislation was enacted, what subjects are covered, and what criteria are used for grading the writing sample.

Discusses recently adopted voucher legislation in Ohio.

Discusses recent trends around the country in bilingual education.

Discusses whether there is any state requirement that the public schools teach personal financial management as part of their curriculum, to what extent this is being taught in school, what other states are doing to promote it, and what the state can do to encourage more education in this area.

Summarizes the state's truancy laws.

Discusses criteria Massachusetts used to take over the management of a public school district near Boston.

Discusses recently adopted school choice legislation in Wisconsin and the recent Harvard study of school choice programs.

Discusses whether any state, or any town in Connecticut has, "self-defense" as part of its school curriculum and, if so, how it was implemented and how it is working

Discusses whether UConn and the Connecticut State University (CSU) system make substance-free dorms available to students and whether we could find any information about such dorms around the country.

Discusses how many UConn basketball tickets are reserved for UConn's use and whether any are reserved for a public lottery or for private nonprofit organizations such as boys' or girls' clubs.

Discusses significant differences between HB 6785 (LCO 3191), the UConn 2000 bill raised by the Education Committee, and LCO 5521, as amended by the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee on May 1.

Summarizes the provisions of HB 6785, as amended and reported on May 1 by the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee.

Summarizes sHB 6898, an Act Concerning School Safety, annotated with section numbers.

Discusses statutes regarding town use of school facilities for nonschool activities. Also discusses whether towns have the right to control the use of their schools when school is not in session, whether they can assume control of the school buildings for town use if they are no longer used as schools, and whether the General Assembly can grant towns the authority to assume control of schools when they are not in use for educational purposes.

Provides a list of statutes affecting nonpublic elementary and secondary schools.