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Discusses new laws (public acts and special acts) significantly affecting education enacted during the 2019 regular session.

Discusses alternates available to students who choose to attend a school other than their traditional public school.

Discusses new laws (public acts and special acts) affecting education enacted during the 2018 regular session.

Discusses state laws and funding for four types of public schools, charter schools, interdistrict magnet schools, regional agricultural science and technology education centers and technical education schools. Updates OLR research report 2014-R-0257.

Discusses new laws (public acts and special acts) affecting education enacted during the 2017 regular session.

Updates the history of the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) grant formula and describes how it currently works.

Discusses state laws addressing Woodstock Academy or any other private academy that serves as a public high school for its town.

Discusses new laws affecting education enacted during the 2016 regular and special legislative sessions.

Discusses highlights of new laws affecting education enacted during the 2015 regular and special legislative sessions.

Discusses the state laws and funding for three types of public schools: charter, schools, interdistrict magnet schools, and innovation schools. Updates OLR research report 2011-R-0001.

Discusses new laws (public and special acts) affecting education enacted during the 2014 legislative session.

Discusses statutory mandates imposed on Connecticut public school districts over the past few years. Updates and revises February 2013 OLR research report 2013-R-0047 to include mandates adopted, eliminated, or modified in the 2013 legislative session.

Discusses new laws (public acts) affecting education enacted during the 2013 regular and December 2012 special legislative sessions.

Discusses state public school safety requirements and any related state funding for school safety.

Discusses statutory mandates imposed on Connecticut public school districts over the past few years. Updates and revises OLR research report 2011-R-0457 to include mandates adopted, eliminated, or modified in the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 legislative sessions.

Discusses recently enacted provisions affecting prekindergarten to grade 12 education currently scheduled for implementation in the next seven years and the reporting schedule to the legislature on the progress of recently enacted education initiatives.

Discusses which school districts are eligible for the new school readiness slots, family resource centers, and school-based health clinics required by the 2012 Education Reform Act (PA 12-116).

Summarizes major education acts enacted in the 2011 and 2012 regular and special legislative sessions.

Provides definitions of terms used in the 2012 Education Reform Act (PA 12-116) and special session amendments to it (PA 12-1 and PA 12-2, June 12 Special Session).

Discusses new laws affecting education enacted during the 2012 regular session.

Compares Connecticut's federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) waiver application and S.B. 24, an Act Concerning Educational Competitiveness.

Discusses whether the legislature has recently introduced bills that would have made all-day kindergarten mandatory in any or all school districts. Also discusses the current law on all-day kindergarten and data on how many districts offer it.

Discusses legislative changes in the Open Choice Program, with an emphasis on major changes since 2001.

Discusses statutory education mandates on local school districts. Updates and revises OLR research report 2009-R-0001 to reflect mandates, adopted, eliminated, or modified in the 2009, 2010, and 2011 legislative sessions (under same author and title).

Provides brief highlights of new laws affecting education enacted during the 2011 regular session.

Discusses whether the State Dept. of Education (SDE) collects data on the number of undocumented students (i.e. those who are in the U.S. illegally) who attend Connecticut public schools.

Summarizes new laws affecting education enacted during the 2010 regular legislative session.

Discusses legislative history of the state's racial imbalance law affecting school districts (CGS sections 10-226a to 10-226e).

Discusses whether the racial imbalance law (CGS sec.10-226a-10-226e) and its implementing regulations allow an exception for a school that "serves as a vital link within the neighborhood it serves"; this question relates to the Alcorn School in Thompsonville, which was cited by the State Board of Education (SBE) in Apr. 2010 as having a racial imbalance

Discusses whether education law or regulation for due process hearings regarding school accommodation, residency, and discipline matters address which party in a proceeding bears the burden of proof. Also compares these types of hearings to special education hearings in Connecticut, where the burden of proof is always on the school district.

Discusses new laws affecting education enacted during the 2009 regular and special legislative sessions.

Discusses whether citizens may initiate recall proceedings against local board of education members under CGS sections 9-203 or -205 by circulating petitions signed by at least 25 citizens and if not, for a summary of those sections.

Discusses whether a teacher needs a Master's degree to retain his or her Connecticut teaching certificate.

Discusses what procedure the State Board of Education (SBE) must follow when adopting new teacher certification regulations; what the relationship is among statutes, agency regulations, and agency procedures or policies; and what authority the State Dept. of Education (SDE) had to use a portfolio assessment, including a video, to assess beginning teachers under the beginning educator support and training (BEST) program.

Summarizes new laws affecting education enacted during the 2008 regular and special legislative sessions.

Discusses renewing or continuing a Connecticut state teaching certificate.

Discusses highlights of new laws affecting education enacted during the 2007 regular and special legislative sessions.

Summarizes bills the Education Committee reported favorably to the Finance Committee.

Discusses best practices for school reform/improvement. Emphasizes information on the town of Bristol's school accountability plan and implementation of a 2005 law requiring the collection and dissemination of charter school best practices and the creation of a state-wide school reform resource center. Also, discusses improvement efforts in New York's Region 5 school district.