Connecticut Statutes

§ 10-266aa — State-wide interdistrict public school attendance program.

Connecticut § 10-266aa
JurisdictionConnecticut
Title 10Education and Culture
Ch. 172Support of Public Schools. Transportation

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-266aa (2026).

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(a)As used in this section:
(1)“Receiving district” means any school district that accepts students under the program established pursuant to this section;
(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; and (3) “Minority students” means students who are “pupils of racial minorities”, as defined in section 10-226a .
(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 p

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Legislative History

(P.A. 97-290, S. 3, 29; P.A. 98-168, S. 23, 26; 98-252, S. 34, 80; P.A. 99-5, S. 1, 2; 99-289, S. 1, 11; P.A. 00-187, S. 15–17, 75; 00-220, S. 19, 43; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1, S. 29, 54; P.A. 03-76, S. 48; 03-168, S. 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 18; P.A. 04-26, S. 6; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 78; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3, S. 9, 10; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 49, 71; P.A. 08-170, S. 6; P.A. 11-48, S. 188; P.A. 12-116, S. 12; P.A. 13-108, S. 2; 13-247, S. 168; P.A. 14-217, S. 98; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 255, 318; P.A. 17-14, S. 10; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 365; P.A. 22-80, S. 27, 28; 22-118, S. 270; P.A. 23-167, S. 19; 23-204, S. 345; P.A. 24-74, S. 2, 3; 24-93, S. 2.) History: P.A. 97-290 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-168 amended Subsec. (b)(3) to specify that the program is for students enrolled in the public schools, and provided for oversight by the Department of Education, amended Subsec. (c) to require the Hartford program to operate as a continuation of the program described in Sec. 10-266j, amended Subsec. (d) to allow school districts to transfer students in the program to a different school if the district is changing school attendance areas on a district-wide basis, amended Subsec. (e) to increase grant amount from $1,000 to $1,200 and to limit requirement for after-school transportation to high school students participating in supervised extracurricular activities, and amended Subsec. (g) to delete provision re not counting children for purposes of any other count under Secs. 10-262f and 10-261, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 98-252 amended Subsec. (f) to specify that the grant is provided to the board of education and to add provision re funds to be made available to the board of education in supplement to other funds to which the board is entitled, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 99-5 amended Subsec. (e) to delete provision that transportation grants be within available appropriations and to add provision that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, and each fiscal year thereafter, such grants shall be within available appropriations, effective April 9, 1999; P.A. 99-289 amended Subsec. (b) to include the setting of reasonable transportation limits, amended Subsec. (c) to extend the time for planning grants to include the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, and to make the provision of such grants permissive, to renumber Subdiv. (3) as Subdiv. (4) and to add new Subdiv. (3) re program operation in New Britain, New London, Waterbury and Windham, to change the date in Subdiv. (4) from the school year commencing in 1999 to school year commencing in 2000, and to substitute program operation in every priority school district for operation in every school district, amended Subsec. (d) to increase the amount of the grant from $100,000 to $175,000, to provide for staff to assist participating students and act as a liaison, to require the regional educational service centers to determine feasible distances for student transportation provided students participating in the program prior to July 1, 1999, are allowed to continue to attend the same school until they complete the highest grade in the school, to make the meetings with school districts annual, to require the reports on spaces to be made by March thirty-first and to require the regional educational service centers to provide a count to the department by April fifteenth, and to substitute provision allowing students to attend school in the district until they graduate from high school for provision allowing them to complete the highest grade in the school they are attending under the program, relettered Subsec. (e) as Subsec. (f), added new Subsec. (e) re records, amended Subsec. (f) to add “state-wide average” and to increase the amount from $1,200 to $2,000, relettered Subsecs. (f), (g), (h) and (i) as Subsecs. (g), (h), (i) and (j) and added Subsec. (k) re determination on level of enrollment, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 00-187 amended Subsec. (b) to give the department authority for the incremental expansion of the program, amended former Subsec. (f), redesignated as Subsec. (e) pursuant to P.A. 00-220, to increase the limit for the state-wide average from $2,000 to $2,100 and added Subsec. (l), redesignated as Subsec. (k) pursuant to P.A. 00-220, re state-wide mastery examinations, effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 00-220 deleted former Subsec. (e) re transfer of records and relettered Subsecs. (f) to (k) as (e) to (j), in new Subsec. (e) added provision concerning the determination of the number of students transported on September first of each fiscal year, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2000; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1 in Subsec. (a) defined “minority students”, in Subsec. (b) removed “state-wide” from description of the program, in Subsec. (c) deleted existing Subdiv. (1) to remove obsolete language, renumbered part of existing Subdiv. (2) as Subdiv. (1) and part as Subdiv. (3), added requirement in Subdiv. (1) re the proportion of students who are not minority students, added new Subdiv. (2) re New London program, made existing Subdiv. (4) part of Subdiv. (3), in Subdiv. (3) changed the applicable fiscal year to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, made the program in other priority school districts voluntary and based participation in the voluntary program on bringing racial, ethnic and economic diversity to the priority school district, redesignated existing Subsecs. (d) to (k) as Subsecs. (e) to (l), added new Subsec. (d) re school districts receiving students from New London, in Subsec. (e) deleted reference to $175,000 annual grant to a regional educational service center and specified that admission policies shall be consistent with provisions of section, in Subsec. (i) added limitation for amount in case of students participating pursuant to Subsec. (d) and in Subsec. (k) specified that determination of enrollment is the program pursuant to Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 03-76 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective June 3, 2003; P.A. 03-168 amended Subsec. (e) by making a technical change and adding provision re the No Child Left Behind Act, effective July 1, 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 amended Subsec. (f) by changing “June 30, 2000,” to “June 30, 2003,” and adding provision giving commissioner discretion to grant additional money to offset transportation costs, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-26 made technical changes in Subsec. (e), effective April 28, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 added Subsec. (m) re summer school educational programs, effective July 1, 2005; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3 amended Subsec. (f) to increase maximum grant from $2,100 to $3,250 per pupil, amended Subsec. (g) to increase per pupil grant from $2,000 to $2,500 and amended Subsec. (k) to increase maximum amount that may be used for supplemental grants from $350,000 to $500,000, effective July 1, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 amended Sec. 41 of June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-6, added editorially by the Revisors as Subsec. (n), to make permanent the grant supporting all day kindergarten for the Hartford program, and added Subsecs. (o) re grants for kindergarten and preschool programs, (p) re grants for academic student support and (q) defining “Sheff region”, effective October 6, 2007; P.A. 08-170 amended Subsec. (n) to add preschool programs, deleted former Subsec. (o) re grants for kindergarten and preschool programs in the Sheff region, redesignated existing Subsec. (p) as Subsec. (o) and replaced provision therein re Sheff region with language re stipulation re Sheff v. O'Neill and deleted former Subsec. (q) re definition of “Sheff region”, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (b)(3) by deleting “for students enrolled in the public schools”, amended Subsec. (g) by designating existing provisions as Subdivs. (1) and (3), adding Subdiv. (2) re per pupil grant to receiving districts for each out-of-district student and making a conforming change in Subdiv. (1), amended Subsec. (k) by replacing “October fifteenth” with “March first”, replacing former Subdiv. (2) re remaining nonlapsing funds to be used for interdistrict cooperative grants with new Subdiv. (2) re nonlapsing funds in amounts from $500,000 up to $1,000,000 to be used for supplemental grants and adding Subdiv. (3) re remaining nonlapsing funds to be used to increase enrollment in interdistrict public school attendance program, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-116 amended Subsec. (g)(2) by replacing reference to fiscal year 2012 with reference to fiscal year 2013, replacing “in an amount equal to (A) three” with “if one of the following conditions are met as follows: (A) Three” and adding Subpara. (D) re $6,000 grant for each out-of-district student if receiving district has greater than 4,000 students and has increased number of students in program by at least 50%, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-108 amended Subsec. (e) by replacing provision re annual meeting with provision re reporting requirement re number of available spaces for out-of-district students, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-247 amended Subsec. (g)(2) by adding “but less than four per cent” in Subpara. (C), replacing “on October 1, 2012” with “from the previous fiscal year” in Subpara. (D), and adding new Subpara. (E) re $8,000 for each out-of-district student if the number of such out-of-district students is greater than or equal to 4 per cent of the total student population, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-217 amended Subsec. (o) by adding “as extended, or the goals of the 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al.”, effective July 1, 2014; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 amended Subsec. (f) by replacing “year” with “years”, “2003, and each fiscal year thereafter” with “2015, to June 30, 2017, inclusive” and “September” with “October”, and adding “or local or regional boards of education”, and amended Subsec. (o) by adding “as extended” re 2013 stipulation and order for Milo Sheff, et al. v. William A. O'Neill, et al., effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 17-14 amended Subsec. (e) by deleting provision re report on number of spaces available for following school year for out-of-district students, effective July 1, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (c) by adding Subdiv. (4) re pilot program in Danbury and Norwalk, amended Subsec. (d) by replacing “2000-2001 school year” with “school year commencing July 1, 2000,”, amended Subsec. (f) by replacing “fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2017, inclusive” with “fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, and each fiscal year thereafter”, amended Subsec. (g) by replacing “subdivision (2)” with “subdivisions (2) and (3)” in Subdiv. (1), adding new Subdiv. (3) re grants to Danbury and Norwalk, and redesignating existing Subdiv. (3) as Subdiv. (4), and amended Subsec. (o) by replacing “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” with “its obligations pursuant to the decision in Sheff v. O'Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996), or any related stipulation or order in effect, as determined by the Commissioner of Education”, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-80 amended Subsec. (c) by adding Subdiv. (5) re town of Guilford eligible to participate in program as a receiving district and sending district with New Haven, and amended Subsec. (k) by adding new Subdiv. (2) re nonlapsing funds to be paid to State Education Resource Center to provide professional development and training for employees in receiving districts, redesignating existing Subdiv. (2) as Subdiv. (3) and amending same by replacing existing provisions re any amount of nonlapsing funds equal to or greater than $500,000, but less than $1,000,000 to be used for supplemental grants with provision re any remaining nonlapsing funds to be used for provision of wrap-around services to students participating in program, and deleting former Subdiv. (3) re any remaining nonlapsing funds to be used by commissioner to increase enrollment in program, effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 22-118 amended Subsec. (g)(2) by designating existing provisions as new Subpara. (A) and amended same by redesignating existing Subparas. (A) to (E) as clauses (i) to (v) and adding “plus any amount available pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this subdivision” throughout, and adding new Subpara. (B) re additional grant of $2,000 to receiving districts for each student who resides in Hartford region and attends school in receiving district, effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 23-167 amended Subsec. (k) by deleting “not lapse but shall”, replacing references to nonlapsing funds with references to additional funds in Subdivs. (1) and (2), and replacing “such nonlapsing” with “an amount up to and including two million dollars of such additional” in Subdiv. (3), effective July 1, 2023; P.A. 23-204 amended Subsec. (g)(1) by designating existing provision re grant of $2,500 as Subpara. (A) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding Subpara. (B) re grant of at least $2,500 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (g)(2)(A)(i) by designating existing provision re grant of $3,000 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding subclause (II) re grant of at least $3,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (g)(2)(A)(ii) by designating existing provision re grant of $4,000 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding subclause (II) re grant of at least $4,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (g)(2)(A)(iii) by designating existing provision re grant of $6,000 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding subclause (II) re grant of at least $6,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (g)(2)(A)(iv) by designating existing provision re grant of $6,000 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding subclause (II) re grant of at least $6,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, amended Subsec. (g)(2)(A)(v) by designating existing provision re grant of $8,000 as subclause (I) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and adding subclause (II) re grant of at least $8,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, effective July 1, 2023; P.A. 24-74 amended Subsec. (c)(4) by replacing “July 1, 2022” with “July 1, 2024, and each school year thereafter”, Subsec. (c)(4)(B) by designating existing provision re students who reside in Norwalk as clause (i) and adding clause (ii) re students who reside in Darien, New Canaan, Wilton, Weston and Westport, and further amended Subsec. (c) by replacing “students from Danbury and Norwalk under the pilot program during the school year commencing July 1, 2022,” with “students under this subdivision as part of the pilot program” and amended Subsec. (g)(3) by deleting former Subpara. (A) re grant of $4,000 during fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, redesignating existing Subpara. (B) as new Subpara. (A) and amending same by making applicable to fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter and deleting “resides in Danbury and Norwalk and”, and redesignating existing Subpara. (B) as Subpara. (C), effective July 1, 2024; P.A. 24-93 amended Subsec. (g)(2) by adding Subpara. (C) re inclusion of grant projected to be received in board of education's annual budget and projected revenue statement, effective July 1, 2024.

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