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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6809
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 2773
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
REP. NAPOLI, 73rd Dist.
SEN. HARTLEY, 15th Dist.
(By Request)
AN ACT REPEALING THE REQUIREMENT THAT SPECIAL
EDUCATION TEACHERS PASS AN ADDITIONAL READING
EXAMINATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That subsection (f) of section 10-145d of the general statutes be 1
amended to repeal the requirement that any certified employee 2
applying for a comprehensive special education endorsement, or 3
applicant for an initial, provisional or professional educator certificate 4
and a comprehensive special education endorsement achieve a 5
satisfactory score on the reading instruction examination approved by 6
the State Board of Education on April 1, 2009, or a comparable reading 7
instruction examination with minimum standards that are equivalent 8
to the examination approved by the State Board of Education on April 9
1, 2009. 10
Statement of Purpose:
To address issues of special education teacher shortages in urban
school districts by repealing the requirement that special education
teachers pass an additional reading examination.