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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 669
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 3017
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
SEN. WITKOS, 8th Dist.
SEN. MARONEY, 14th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING A COMPUTER CODING CURRICULUM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That title 10 of the general statutes be amended to require (1) the 1
development of a state-wide plan for computer science instruction for 2
grades kindergarten to twelve, inclusive, on or before January 1, 2020, 3
(2) that programs of teacher preparation include a computer science 4
component, (3) that, for the school year commencing July 1, 2022, and 5
each school year thereafter, all high schools in the state offer a 6
computer science class, and (4) that a credit earned for a computer 7
science class counts towards a core graduation requirement. 8
Statement of Purpose:
To create a state-wide plan for the implementation of a computer
coding curriculum.