Sec. 10-221i. Technical assistance. Standard of reading competency. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 10-221i. Technical assistance. Standard of reading competency. (a) The Department of Education shall provide technical assistance to local and regional boards of education on the development of the plans required pursuant to section 10-221h. The department shall advise local and regional boards of education on: (1) Methods and strategies for assessing students who are at risk of failing to learn to read by the end of first grade; and (2) the development of in-service training programs on the teaching of reading and assessment of reading competency for teachers in grades kindergarten to three, inclusive.

      (b) The State Board of Education shall establish a standard of reading competency for use by local and regional boards of education to measure reading competency for students in grades one to three, inclusive. The standard may be a requirement for a certain score on a standardized test.

      (P.A. 97-290, S. 23, 29; P.A. 98-243, S. 2, 25.)

      History: P.A. 97-290 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-243 added new Subsec. (a) re technical assistance, redesignating the existing Subsec. (a) as Subsec. (b), and deleted former Subsec. (b) re report to the General Assembly, effective July 1, 1998 (Revisor's note: In Subsec. (a)(1) the phrase "... the teaching of the reading and ..." was changed editorially by the Revisors to "... the teaching of reading and ...").