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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6814
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 1192
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
REP. COOK, 65th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING FUNDING FOR REGIONAL AGRICULTURAL
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That section 10-65 of the general statutes be amended to increase the 1
per student funding to twelve thousand five hundred dollars for 2
students enrolled in an agricultural science and technology education 3
center; further that section 10-262f of the general statutes be amended 4
to exclude students enrolled in an agricultural science and technology 5
education center from the resident student count of a town for 6
purposes of equalization aid grants; and further that the general 7
statutes be amended to transfer in the current state budget, for the 8
fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, the sum of $8,226,757 appropriated to 9
the Department of Education, for Education Equalization Grants to the 10
Department of Education, for Vocational Agriculture. 11
Statement of Purpose:
To achieve funding equity of the per student grant for agricultural
science and technology education centers and the Technical Education
and Career System.