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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 647 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 254 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2021 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 647 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on EDUCATION |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SEN. OSTEN, 19th Dist. |
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| 15 | 15 | | REP. RILEY, 46th Dist. |
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| 16 | 16 | | REP. NOLAN, 39th Dist. |
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| 17 | 17 | | REP. CONLEY, 40th Dist. |
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| 18 | 18 | | REP. SMITH, 48th Dist. |
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| 23 | 23 | | AN ACT CONCERNING THE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION OF |
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| 24 | 24 | | STUDENTS WHO WITHDRAW FROM SCHOOL WITHOUT |
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| 25 | 25 | | GRADUATING. |
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| 26 | 26 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 27 | 27 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 29 | 29 | | That chapter 170 of the general statutes be amended to require local 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | and regional boards of education to (1) conduct an exit interview with 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | each student who withdraws from school without graduating or being 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | granted a diploma by such board, and that such exit interview shall be 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | for the purpose of collecting information relating to (A) whether the 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | student has a history of trauma, (B) whether the student's family has 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | been reported to the Department of Children and Families, or any other 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | agencies, for ongoing stressors or needs that are not being addressed, 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (C) the future plans of such student following such withdrawal, (D) 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | whether the student has been the victim of bullying and whether such 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | bullying caused a decline in academic achievement and is responsible 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | for such withdrawal, and (E) whether such student can be set up in an 12 Proposed Bill No. 254 |
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| 43 | 43 | | LCO No. 647 2 of 2 |
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| 45 | 45 | | environment which will allow for him or her to be trained in skills that 13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | will provide financial independence; and (2) aggregate such 14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | information in a report and submit such report to the Department of 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Education for evaluation. 16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 50 | 50 | | To collect and report information concerning student withdrawal from |
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| 51 | 51 | | school in order to provide better services and resources to students and |
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| 52 | 52 | | families in the state. |
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