Connecticut 2017 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00705 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/24/2017

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 705
January Session, 2017  LCO No. 1881
 *01881*
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
SEN. MARTIN, 31st Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 705 

January Session, 2017

LCO No. 1881

*01881*

Referred to Committee on EDUCATION 

Introduced by:

SEN. MARTIN, 31st Dist.

AN ACT ELIMINATING THE TOTAL HOURS REQUIREMENT RELATING TO ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPELLED STUDENTS.

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

That subsection (d) of section 10-233d of the general statutes be amended to eliminate the requirement that local and regional boards of education provide nine hundred hours of instructional time as part of the alternative educational opportunity for expelled students.

Statement of Purpose: 

To eliminate the mandate requiring the amount of instructional time that school districts are required to provide to students who have been expelled.