Bill Text: CT HB06433 | 2011 | General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Adult Education.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-07-08 - Signed by the Governor [HB06433 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2011-HB06433-Chaptered.html
AN ACT CONCERNING ADULT EDUCATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (d) of section 10-233d of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2011):
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of section 10-220, local and regional boards of education shall only be required to offer an alternative educational opportunity in accordance with this section. Any pupil under sixteen years of age who is expelled shall be offered an alternative educational opportunity during the period of expulsion, provided any parent or guardian of such pupil who does not choose to have his or her child enrolled in an alternative educational program shall not be subject to the provisions of section 10-184. Any pupil expelled for the first time who is between the ages of sixteen and eighteen and who wishes to continue his or her education shall be offered an alternative educational opportunity if he or she complies with conditions established by his or her local or regional board of education. Such alternative educational opportunity may include, but shall not be limited to, the placement of a pupil who is at least sixteen years of age in an adult education program pursuant to section 10-69, as amended by this act. Any pupil participating in an adult education program during a period of expulsion shall not be required to withdraw from school under section 10-184. A local or regional board of education shall count the expulsion of a pupil when he was under sixteen years of age for purposes of determining whether an alternative educational opportunity is required for such pupil when he is between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. A local or regional board of education may offer an alternative educational opportunity to a pupil for whom such alternative educational opportunity is not required pursuant to this section.
Sec. 2. Subsection (a) of section 10-69 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2011):
(a) Each local and regional board of education shall establish and maintain a program of adult classes or shall provide for participation in a program of adult classes for its adult residents through cooperative arrangements with one or more other boards of education, one or more cooperating eligible entities or a regional educational service center pursuant to the provisions of section 10-66a. Such board of education may admit an adult to any public elementary or secondary school. No person enrolled in a full-time program of study in any local or regional school district may enroll in an adult education activity [without] unless (1) such person receives the approval of the school principal of the school in which such person is enrolled in such full-time program, or (2) such person is enrolled in an adult education activity as part of an alternative educational opportunity during a period of expulsion, in accordance with the provisions of section 10-233d, as amended by this act. Instruction: [(1)] (A) Shall be provided in Americanization and United States citizenship, English for adults with limited English proficiency and elementary and secondary school completion programs or classes; and [(2)] (B) may be provided in [(A)] (i) any subject provided by the elementary and secondary schools of such school district, including vocational education, [(B)] (ii) adult literacy, [(C)] (iii) parenting skills, and [(D)] (iv) any other subject or activity.