Bill Text: CT HB05342 | 2018 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Establishing A Working Group To Study Best Practices Regarding Social-emotional Learning.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-04-27 - File Number 652 [HB05342 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-HB05342-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5342
February Session, 2018		LCO No. 1935
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Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
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AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO STUDY BEST PRACTICES REGARDING SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) There is established a task force to study issues relating to best practices for the promotion of social-emotional learning in schools. The task force shall (1) identify successful models of social-emotional learning that are being implemented by school districts in Connecticut or other states, (2) analyze the suspension and expulsion rates, prior to and after, a successful model has been implemented in a school district, and (3) make recommendations for how such successful models can be expanded and implemented in other school districts throughout the state.

(b) The task force shall consist of the following members: (1) The Commissioner of Education, or the commissioner's designee, (2) the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, or the director's designee, (3) a representative designated by the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, (4) a representative designated by the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, (5) a representative designated by the Connecticut Association of Schools, (6) a representative designated by the Connecticut Association of School Administrators, (7) a representative designated by the Connecticut Education Association, (8) a representative designated by the American Federation of Teachers-Connecticut, and (9) a representative designated by the Neag School of Education at The University of Connecticut.

(c) All appointments to the task force shall be made not later than thirty days after the effective date of this section. Any vacancy shall be filled by the designating authority.

(d) The chairperson of the task force shall be elected from among the members. The first meeting of the task force shall be held not later than sixty days after the effective date of this section.

(e) Not later than January 1, 2019, the task force shall submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes. The task force shall terminate on the date that it submits such report or January 1, 2019, whichever is later.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	New section

ED

Joint Favorable