Section 10-148c - Subject matter to be made available to boards of education for in-service training programsThe 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
Added by P.A. 17-0037, S. 3 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2017 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2017.