Connecticut 2013 2013 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00715 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/25/2013

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 715
January Session, 2013  LCO No. 1998
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
SEN. HARP, 10th Dist. REP. WALKER, 93rd Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 715 

January Session, 2013

LCO No. 1998

Referred to Committee on EDUCATION 

Introduced by:

SEN. HARP, 10th Dist.

REP. WALKER, 93rd Dist.

AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE RAISE THE GRADE PILOT PROGRAM.

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

That the Department of Children and Families, in consultation with the Department of Education, establish the Raise the Grade pilot program to be implemented in the cities of Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven for the purpose of increasing the academic achievement of children and youth who are living in the care or custody of the Commissioner of Children and Families or who are being served by the Court Support Services Division in such cities.

Statement of Purpose: 

To establish the Raise the Grade pilot program to increase the academic achievement of children and youth in the care or custody of the Commissioner of Children and Families or being served by the Court Support Services Division in Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven.