§ 10-95 — Technical Education and Career School System.

Connecticut § 10-95

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 10: Education and Culture
• Ch. 164: Educational Opportunities

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There is established a state-wide system of technical education and career schools to be known as the Technical Education and Career System. The Technical Education and Career System shall offer (1) full-time comprehensive secondary education at technical high schools located throughout the state, and (2) part-time, evening and extracurricular programs in vocational, technical, technological and postsecondary education and training. See Sec. 10-15d re applicability of education general statutes to technical high schools.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 1404; September, 1957, P.A. 11, S. 13; 1963, P.A. 203; 1967, P.A. 751, S. 3; P.A. 75-425, S. 27, 57; P.A. 77-614, S. 73, 610; P.A. 87-496, S. 46, 110; P.A. 93-376, S. 6, 13; P.A. 98-252, S. 10, 80; P.A. 01-173, S. 59, 67; P.A. 12-116, S. 69; P.A. 13-207, S. 5; P.A. 17-237, S. 1, 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 72, 73; P.A. 18-182, S. 18; P.A. 19-117, S. 281; P.A. 21-144, S. 8; P.A. 24-78, S. 21.) History: 1963 act added provisions for state technical institutes; 1967 act deleted provisions regarding state technical institutes, increased period for leasing vocational school facilities from four to five years and substituted “the” for “said”; P.A. 75-425 provided that public works commissioner should handle leases upon request of state board rather than the board itself; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of administrative services for public works commissioner; P.A. 87-496 substituted public works commissioner for administrative services commissioner; P.A. 93-376 changed the description of the schools, transferred authority for the appointment and removal of staff, the management of the schools and the expending of funds for their support from the board to the commissioner “in accordance with policies established by the board”, deleted requirement for the board to include a statement of expenses for the schools in a report to the governor and changed the description of arrangements that the board may enter into for purposes of providing education and work experience, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 98-252 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added new Subsec. (b) re accreditation problems, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 01-173 added Subsec. (c) re student achievement goals and school performance measures, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 12-116 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provisions re technical high school system, board and chairperson and designating existing language re duties of board as new Subsec. (b), added new Subsec. (c) re superintendent of the technical high school system, redesignated existing Subsecs. (b) and (c) as Subsecs. (d) and (e), amended redesignated Subsec. (e) by replacing reference to the State Board of Education with reference to the technical high school system board, and replaced references to the regional vocational-technical school system with references to the technical high school system and made conforming changes throughout, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-207 amended Subsec. (e) by replacing reference to state-wide tenth grade mastery examination with provision re performance of students in grade ten or eleven on the mastery examination, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 17-237 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “governed” with “advised”, amended Subsec. (b) by adding “and may offer”, adding “and postsecondary”, replacing “make regulations controlling” with “recommend to the superintendent of the Technical Education and Career System policies governing”, adding “in compliance with state and federal law” and deleting provision re cooperative arrangements, amended Subsec. (c) by adding provision re cooperative arrangements and adding provision re superintendent may arrange for training to be provided to board, added Subsec. (f) re board may accept gifts, grants and donations on behalf of system, replaced references to technical high school and technical high school system with references to technical education and career school and Technical Education and Career System, respectively, and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2017, and amended former Subsec. (a) by deleting Subsec. (a) designator, replacing “The State Board of Education may establish and maintain” with “There is established” and deleting provision re board membership, amended Subsec. (b) by deleting Subsec. (b) designator, deleting provision re board may adopt policies controlling admission of students and deleting provision re Commissioner of Education may appoint and remove members of staffs of schools and make rules for management and expend funds, deleted former Subsec. (c) re superintendent and board entering into cooperative arrangements, deleted former Subsec. (d) re establishment of achievement goals for students and measurement of performance of schools, deleted former Subsec. (e) re board may accept gifts, grants and donations, effective July 1, 2019; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting “board”, amended Subsec. (b) by adding “comprehensive secondary education” and replacing “such school” with “technical education and career school”, amended Subsec. (c) by replacing “technical high school system” with “Technical Education and Career System” and deleting “technical high school”, amended Subsec. (f) by adding provision re no employee of system may accept any gift, grant or donation for personal use, adding provision re any gift, grant or donation accepted shall be in accordance with state code of ethics for public officials and adding provision re board to submit quarterly reports concerning all gifts, grants or donations received, effective October 31, 2017, and added “comprehensive secondary education”, effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 18-182 changed effective date of P.A. 17-237, S. 2, from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2020, effective June 14, 2018; P.A. 19-117 changed effective date of P.A. 17-237, S. 2, from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2022, effective June 26, 2019; P.A. 21-144 amended Subsec. (c) by replacing provision re board and commissioner to jointly recommend a candidate for superintendent to State Board with provision re superintendent to be hired in accordance with Sec. 10-95q, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 24-78 designated existing provisions re full-time comprehensive secondary education and part-time and evening programs as Subdivs. (1) and (2), added “at technical high schools located throughout the state” in Subdiv. (1), added “and extracurricular” in Subdiv. (2) and deleted “may offer”, effective May 30, 2024.