Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-148c

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.

Section 10-148c - Subject matter to be made available to boards of education for in-service training programs

The State Board of Education, within available appropriations and utilizing available materials, shall make the following subject matter available to local and regional boards of education:

(1) Holocaust and genocide education and awareness;

(2) the historical events surrounding the Great Famine in Ireland;

(3) African-American history;

(4) Puerto Rican history;

(5) Native American history;

(6) personal financial management;

(7) domestic violence and teen dating violence;

(8) mental health first aid training;

(9) trauma-informed practices for the school setting to enable teachers, administrators and pupil personnel to more adequately respond to students with mental, emotional or behavioral health needs;

(10) second language acquisition, including, but not limited to, language development and culturally responsive pedagogy; and

(11) topics approved by the state board upon the request of local or regional boards of education as part of in-service training programs pursuant to this subsection. A local or regional board of education may include any of the items described in subdivisions (1) to (11), inclusive, of this section in the in-service training program provided by such board, pursuant to section 10-220a.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-148c

( P.A. 17-37, S. 3.)

Added by P.A. 17-0037, S. 3 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2017 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2017.