Bill Text: CT SB00473 | 2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Magnet Schools.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-13 - Public Hearing 03/17 [SB00473 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2014-SB00473-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 473
February Session, 2014		LCO No. 2352
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Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
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AN ACT CONCERNING MAGNET SCHOOLS.

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

Section 1. Subsection (m) of section 10-264l of the 2014 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2014):

(m) (1) On or before May 15, 2010, and annually thereafter, each interdistrict magnet school operator shall provide written notification to any school district that is otherwise responsible for educating a student who resides in such school district and will be enrolled in an interdistrict magnet school under the operator's control for the following school year. Such notification shall include the number of any such students, by grade, who will be enrolled in an interdistrict magnet school under the control of such operator, the name of the school in which such student has been placed and the amount of tuition to be charged to the local or regional board of education for such student. Such notification shall represent an estimate of the number of students expected to attend such interdistrict magnet schools in the following school year, but shall not be deemed to limit the number of students who may enroll in such interdistrict magnet schools for such year.

(2) Not later than two weeks following an enrollment lottery for an interdistrict magnet school conducted by a magnet school operator, the parent or guardian of a student (A) who will enroll in such interdistrict magnet school in the following school year, or (B) whose name has been placed on a waiting list for enrollment in such interdistrict magnet school for the following school year, shall provide written notification of such enrollment or waiting list placement to the school district that such student resides and is otherwise responsible for educating such student.

Sec. 2. Section 197 of public act 11-48 is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

(a) An interdistrict magnet school program that is not in compliance with the racial minorities enrollment requirements of section 10-264l of the general statutes, as amended by [this act] public act 11-48, following the submission of student information data of such program to the state-wide public school information system, pursuant to section 10-10a of the general statutes, on or before October 1, 2011, and October 1, 2012, due to changes in the 2010 federal racial reporting requirements relating to the collection of racial and ethnic data, as described in the Federal Register of October 19, 2007, shall maintain such program's status as an interdistrict magnet school program and remain eligible for an interdistrict magnet school operating grant pursuant to section 10-264l of the general statutes, as amended by [this act] public act 11-48, if such program submits a compliance plan to the Commissioner of Education and the commissioner approves such plan.

(b) On or before January 1, [2013] 2015, the Department of Education shall submit 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, recommendations for legislation to amend the racial minority enrollments requirements for interdistrict magnet school programs pursuant to section 10-264l of the general statutes, as amended by [this act] public act 11-48, to conform with changes in the federal law. Such plan shall reflect the regional demographics of the interdistrict magnet school programs and the diverse racial, ethnic and socio-economic needs of the student populations attending interdistrict magnet school programs.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2014	10-264l(m)
Sec. 2	from passage	PA 11-48, Sec. 197

Statement of Purpose:

To require the parent or guardian of a student who will be enrolled in a magnet school or whose name has been placed on a waiting list for a magnet school to notify the school district in which such student resides of such enrollment or placement and to push back the date that the Department of Education is to submit recommendations for legislation regarding racial minority enrollment requirements for magnet schools.

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