Sec. 10-95. Vocational-technical schools. Accreditation status. Accountability. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 10-95. Vocational-technical schools. Accreditation status. Accountability. (a) The State Board of Education may establish and maintain a state-wide system of regional vocational-technical schools offering full-time, part-time and evening programs in vocational, technical and technological education and training. The board may make regulations controlling the admission of students to any such school. The Commissioner of Education, in accordance with policies established by the board, may appoint and remove members of the staffs of such schools and make rules for the management of and expend the funds provided for the support of such schools. The board may enter into cooperative arrangements with local and regional boards of education, private occupational schools, institutions of higher education, job training agencies and employers in order to provide general education, vocational, technical or technological education or work experience.

      (b) If the New England Association of Schools and Colleges places a regional vocational-technical school on probation or otherwise notifies the superintendent of the vocational-technical school system that a regional vocational-technical school is at risk of losing its accreditation, the Commissioner of Education shall notify the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education of such placement or problems relating to accreditation.

      (c) The State Board of Education shall establish specific achievement goals for students at the vocational-technical schools at each grade level. The board shall measure the performance of each vocational-technical school and shall identify a set of quantifiable measures to be used. The measures shall include factors such as performance on the state-wide tenth grade mastery examination under section 10-14n, trade-related assessment tests, dropout rates and graduation rates.

      (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.)

      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.

      See Sec. 10-15d re applicability of education general statutes to vocational-technical schools.