Connecticut 2019 Regular Session Status: In Committee

SB 1017 — AN ACT CONCERNING THE OPEN CHOICE PROGRAM.

Last action — HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 605

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    Passed Senate
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    Passed House
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2019 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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General Assembly Substitute Bill No.
General Assembly Raised Bill No.
1017 January Session, 2019 AN ACT CONCERNING THE OPEN CHOICE PROGRAM.
1017 January Session, 2019 LCO No.
5368 Referred to Committee on EDUCATION Introduced by:
(ED) AN ACT CONCERNING THE OPEN CHOICE PROGRAM.
Section 10-266aa of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2019):
Subsection (e) of section 10-266aa of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2019):
(a) As used in this section:
(e) Once the program is in operation in the region served by a regional educational service center pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, the Department of Education shall provide an annual grant to such regional educational service center to assist school districts in its area in administering the program and to provide [staff to assist] each receiving district that accepts more than forty students under the program with an education advocate who is responsible for (1) assisting students participating in the program to make the transition to a new school, [and to act] (2) acting as a liaison between the parents of such students and the new school district, and (3) providing academic and other social support to such students.
(1) "Receiving district" means any school district that accepts students under the program established pursuant to this section;
Each regional educational service center shall determine which school districts in its area are located close enough to a priority school district to make LCO No.
(2) "Sending district" means any school district that sends students it would otherwise be legally responsible for educating to another school district under the program;
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and (3) "Minority students" means students who are "pupils of racial minorities", as defined in section 10-226a.
1017 participation in the program feasible in terms of student transportation pursuant to subsection (f) of this section.
(b) There is established, within available appropriations, an interdistrict public school attendance program.
The purpose of the program shall be to:
(1) Improve academic achievement;
(2) reduce racial, ethnic and economic isolation or preserve racial and ethnic balance;
and (3) provide a choice of educational programs.
The Department of Education shall provide oversight for the program, including the setting of reasonable limits for the transportation of LCO \\PRDFS1\SCOUSERS\FORZANOF\WS\2019SB-01017-R01 of 8 SB.docx Substitute Bill No.
1017 students participating in the program, and may provide for the incremental expansion of the program for the school year commencing in 2000 for each town required to participate in the program pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.
(c) The program shall be phased in as provided in this subsection.
(1) For the school year commencing in 1998, and for each school year thereafter, the program shall be in operation in the Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport regions.
The Hartford program shall operate as a continuation of the program described in section 10-266j.
Students who reside in Hartford, New Haven or Bridgeport may attend school in another school district in the region and students who reside in such other school districts may attend school in Hartford, New Haven or Bridgeport, provided, beginning with the 2001-2002 school year, the proportion of students who are not minority students to the total number of students leaving Hartford, Bridgeport or New Haven to participate in the program shall not be greater than the proportion of students who were not minority students in the prior school year to the total number of students enrolled in Hartford, Bridgeport or New Haven in the prior school year.
The regional educational service center operating the program shall make program participation decisions in accordance with the requirements of this subdivision.
(2) For the school year commencing in 2000, and for each school year thereafter, the program shall be in operation in New London, provided beginning with the 2001-2002 school year, the proportion of students who are not minority students to the total number of students leaving New London to participate in the program shall not be greater than the proportion of students who were not minority students in the prior year to the total number of students enrolled in New London in the prior school year.
The regional educational service center operating the program shall make program participation decisions in accordance with this subdivision.
(3) The Department of Education may provide, within available appropriations, grants for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, to the remaining regional educational service centers to assist school districts in planning for a voluntary program of student LCO {\\PRDFS1\SCOUSERS\FORZANOF\WS\2019SB-01012 of 8 R01-SB.docx } Substitute Bill No.
1017 enrollment in every priority school district, pursuant to section 10- 266p, which is interested in participating in accordance with this subdivision.
For the school year commencing in 2003, and for each school year thereafter, the voluntary enrollment program may be in operation in every priority school district in the state.
Students from other school districts in the area of a priority school district, as determined by the regional educational service center pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, may attend school in the priority school district, provided such students bring racial, ethnic and economic diversity to the priority school district and do not increase the racial, ethnic and economic isolation in the priority school district.
(d) School districts which received students from New London under the program during the 2000-2001 school year shall allow such students to attend school in the district until they graduate from high school.
The attendance of such students in such program shall not be supported by grants pursuant to subsections (f) and (g) of this section but shall be supported, in the same amounts as provided for in said subsections, by interdistrict cooperative grants pursuant to section 10- 74d to the regional educational service centers operating such programs.
(e) Once the program is in operation in the region served by a regional educational service center pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, the Department of Education shall provide an annual grant to such regional educational service center [to assist] for the purpose of assisting school districts in its area in administering the program and [to provide staff to assist] providing each receiving district that accepts more than seventy-five students under the program with an education advocate who is responsible for (1) assisting students participating in the program to make the transition to a new school, [and to act] (2) acting as a liaison between the parents of such students and the new school district, and (3) providing academic and other social support to such students.
Each regional educational service center shall determine which school districts in its area are located close enough to a priority LCO {\\PRDFS1\SCOUSERS\FORZANOF\WS\2019SB-01013 of 8 R01-SB.docx } Substitute Bill No.
1017 school district to make participation in the program feasible in terms of student transportation pursuant to subsection (f) of this section.
(f) The Department of Education shall provide grants to regional educational service centers or local or regional boards of education for the reasonable cost of transportation for students participating in the program.
For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2017, inclusive, the department shall provide such grants within available appropriations, provided the state-wide average of such grants does not exceed an amount equal to three thousand two hundred fifty dollars for each student transported, except that the Commissioner of Education may grant to regional educational service centers or local or regional boards of education additional sums from funds remaining in the appropriation for such transportation services if needed to offset transportation costs that exceed such maximum amount.
The regional educational service centers shall provide reasonable transportation services to high school students who wish to participate in supervised LCO {\\PRDFS1\SCOUSERS\FORZANOF\WS\2019SB-01014 of 8 R01-SB.docx } Substitute Bill No.
1017 extracurricular activities.
For purposes of this section, the number of students transported shall be determined on October first of each fiscal year.
(g) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, the Department of Education shall provide, within available appropriations, an annual grant to the local or regional board of education for each receiving district in an amount not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program.
(2) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, and each fiscal year thereafter, the department shall provide, within available appropriations, an annual grant to the local or regional board of education for each receiving district if one of the following conditions are met as follows:
(A) Three thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program if the number of such out-of-district students is less than two per cent of the total student population of such receiving district, (B) four thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program if the number of such out-of- district students is greater than or equal to two per cent but less than three per cent of the total student population of such receiving district, (C) six thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program if the number of such out-of-district students is greater than or equal to three per cent but less than four per cent of the total student population of such receiving district, (D) six thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program if the Commissioner of Education determines that the receiving district has an enrollment of greater than four thousand students and has increased the number of students in the program by at least fifty per cent from the previous fiscal year, or (E) eight thousand dollars for each out-of-district student who attends school in the receiving district under the program if the number of such out-of-district students is LCO {\\PRDFS1\SCOUSERS\FORZANOF\WS\2019SB-01017-5 of 8 R01-SB.docx } Substitute Bill No.
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1017 greater than or equal to four per cent of the total student population of such receiving district.
(3) Each town which receives funds pursuant to this subsection shall make such funds available to its local or regional board of education in supplement to any other local appropriation, other state or federal grant or other revenue to which the local or regional board of education is entitled.
(h) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, each sending district and each receiving district shall divide the number of children participating in the program who reside in such district or attend school in such district by two for purposes of the counts for subdivision (22) of section 10-262f and subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 10-261.
(i) In the case of an out-of-district student who requires special education and related services, the sending district shall pay the receiving district an amount equal to the difference between the reasonable cost of providing such special education and related services to such student and the amount received by the receiving district pursuant to subsection (g) of this section and in the case of students participating pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, the per pupil amount received pursuant to section 10-74d.
The sending district shall be eligible for reimbursement pursuant to section 10-76g.
(j) Nothing in this section shall prohibit school districts from charging tuition to other school districts that do not have a high school pursuant to section 10-33.
(k) On or before March first of each year, the Commissioner of Education shall determine if the enrollment in the program pursuant to subsection (c) of this section for the fiscal year is below the number of students for which funds were appropriated.
If the commissioner determines that the enrollment is below such number, the additional funds shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year but shall be carried LCO {\\PRDFS1\SCOUSERS\FORZANOF\WS\2019SB-01016 of 8 R01-SB.docx } Substitute Bill No.
1017 forward for the next fiscal year and used by the commissioner [in accordance with this subsection] for the purpose of providing grants for an education advocate in accordance with the provisions of subsection (e) of this section.
[(1) Any amount up to five hundred thousand dollars of such nonlapsing funds shall be used for supplemental grants to receiving districts on a pro rata basis for each out-of-district student in the program pursuant to subsection (c) of this section who attends the same school in the receiving district as at least nine other such out-of- district students, not to exceed one thousand dollars per student.
(2) Any amount of such nonlapsing funds equal to or greater than five hundred thousand dollars, but less than one million dollars, shall be used for supplemental grants, in an amount determined by the commissioner, on a pro rata basis to receiving districts that report to the commissioner on or before March first of the current school year that the number of out-of-district students enrolled in such receiving district is greater than the number of out-of-district students enrolled in such receiving district from the previous school year.
(3) Any remaining nonlapsing funds shall be used by the commissioner to increase enrollment in the interdistrict public school attendance program described in this section.] (l) For purposes of the state-wide mastery examinations under section 10-14n, students participating in the program established pursuant to this section shall be considered residents of the school district in which they attend school.
(m) Within available appropriations, the commissioner may make grants to regional education service centers which provide summer school educational programs approved by the commissioner to students participating in the program.
(n) The Commissioner of Education may provide grants for children in the Hartford program described in this section to participate in LCO {\\PRDFS1\SCOUSERS\FORZANOF\WS\2019SB-01017 of 8 R01-SB.docx } Substitute Bill No.
1017 preschool and all day kindergarten programs.
In addition to the subsidy provided to the receiving district for educational services, such grants may be used for the provision of before and after-school care and remedial services for the preschool and kindergarten students participating in the program.
(o) Within available appropriations, the commissioner may make grants for academic student support for programs pursuant to this section that assist the state in meeting the goals of the 2008 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al.
v.
William A.
O'Neill, et al., as extended, or the goals of the 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al.
v.
William A.
O'Neill, et al., as extended, as determined by the commissioner.
(p) Up to three and one-half per cent of the amount of the appropriation for this section shall be used by the commissioner for the purpose of providing grants for an education advocate in accordance with the provisions of subsection (e) of this section.
Section 1 July 1, 2019 10-266aa ED Joint Favorable Subst.
Section 1 July 1, 2019 10-266aa(e) Statement of Purpose:
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To require that an education advocate be provided to certain receiving districts to assist students participating in the open choice program.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets.
Proposed additions are indicated by underline, not underlined.] the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is LCO No.
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Action History

  1. HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 605

  2. FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER

  3. ON CONSENT CALENDAR

  4. SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A

  5. SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A

  6. FILE NO. 332

  7. SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 153

  8. FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.

  9. RPTD. OUT OF LCO

  10. REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/01/19

  11. FILED WITH LCO

  12. Joint Favorable Substitute

  13. PUBLIC HEARING 0313

  14. REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Education

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