Connecticut 2014 2014 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05005 Introduced / Bill

Filed 02/04/2014

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5005
February Session, 2014  LCO No. 218
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
REP. JANOWSKI, 56th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 5005 

February Session, 2014

LCO No. 218

Referred to Committee on EDUCATION 

Introduced by:

REP. JANOWSKI, 56th Dist.

AN ACT INCREASING ECS AID TO TOWNS TO COMPENSATE FOR THE MAGNET SCHOOL TUITION REQUIREMENT.

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

That section 10-262h of the general statutes be repealed and that chapter 172 of the general statutes be amended to increase state aid under the education cost sharing formula to compensate towns for losses incurred as a result of being responsible for paying the tuition of students attending interdistrict magnet schools.

Statement of Purpose: 

To compensate towns for the increased local costs in meeting the state requirement that towns pay the tuition for students attending interdistrict magnet schools.