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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 813
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
(ED)
AN ACT CONCERNING A STUDY OF ISSUES RELATING TO EARLY
COLLEGE AND DUAL ENR OLLMENT PROGRAMS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) The Department of Education shall 1
conduct a study of issues relating to student enrollment in, and 2
graduation from, middle college programs, early college high school 3
and Connecticut Early College Opportunity programs, as those terms 4
are defined in section 31-11ff of the general statutes, and dual 5
enrollment programs. Such study shall include, but need not be 6
limited to, a review of (1) how data relating to student enrollment in 7
and graduation from such programs is being reported by local and 8
regional boards of education and collected in the state-wide public 9
school information system pursuant to section 10-10a of the general 10
statutes, including whether such graduation data can be segregated at 11
the school and district level from the total graduation data at the 12
school and district level, and (2) any policies adopted by local and 13
regional boards of education concerning weighted grading for courses 14
associated with such programs for purposes of calculating grade point 15
average and determining class rank. Not later than January 1, 2020, the 16 Raised Bill No. 813
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department shall submit a report on its findings and any 17
recommendations for legislation to the joint standing committee of the 18
General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education, 19
in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general 20
statutes. 21
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Department of Education to conduct a study of issues
relating to early college and dual enrollment programs.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]