Connecticut 2011 2011 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00629 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/21/2011

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 629
January Session, 2011  LCO No. 619
Referred to Committee on Education
Introduced by:
SEN. KELLY, 21st Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 629 

January Session, 2011

LCO No. 619

Referred to Committee on Education 

Introduced by:

SEN. KELLY, 21st Dist.

AN ACT AMENDING THE EDUCATION COST SHARING FORMULA TO A MONEY FOLLOWS THE CHILD APPROACH.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That title 10 of the general statutes be amended to revise the education cost sharing formula by expanding the definition of resident students to include students attending charter schools, interdistrict magnet schools, nonpublic schools by means of a voucher and nonpublic schools by means of a tax credit.

Statement of Purpose: 

To establish a money follows the child approach to state education grant funding.