Connecticut General Statutes 10-233n – Report re disaggregated school discipline data
(a) As used in this section:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 10-233n
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(1) “Student” means a person who is enrolled in a school under the jurisdiction of a local or regional board of education;
(2) “School property” means the real property comprising a public elementary or secondary school under the jurisdiction of a local or regional board of education;
(3) “School day” means the hours in which a school is open to students for regular classroom instruction, intramural or interscholastic athletics, or extracurricular activities;
(4) “School-sponsored event” means any school activity conducted on or off school property regardless of when such school activity is conducted; and
(5) “School-based arrest” means an arrest of a student for conduct of such student on school property or at a school-sponsored event.
(b) The Department of Education shall annually examine data relating to in-school suspensions, out-of-school suspensions, expulsions and school-based arrests that has been submitted as part of the strategic school profile report pursuant to section 10-220, and shall disaggregate such data by school, race, ethnicity, gender, age, students with disabilities, multilingual learners, as defined in section 10-76kk, students who are eligible for free or reduced priced lunch pursuant to federal law and regulations, and type of offense for which the school-based arrests were made and the number of arrests made annually at each school within the school district. The department shall annually submit to the State Board of Education, and post on its Internet web site, a report regarding the examination and disaggregation of such data, any strategies developed pursuant to subsection (g) of section 10-220 and the results of such strategies.