HB 6762 Summary

• Increases per-child costs for Office of Early Childhood school readiness programs from $9,027 (through June 30, 2024) to $10,500 for full-time programs (fiscal year ending June 30, 2025)

• Requires Commissioner of Education to conduct an audit of state and local testing requirements by January 1, 2025, focusing on the state-wide mastery examination and recommendations for limiting test administration time

• Establishes Connecticut Civics Education, Civics Engagement and Media Literacy Task Force to develop strategies improving civic engagement and instruction; task force must submit report by January 1, 2025

• Creates a written bill of rights for multilingual learner students and parents, including rights to translation services, bilingual education programs, equal access to grade-level programming, and annual language proficiency testing; requires school boards to distribute the bill of rights by July 1, 2024

• Modifies special education funding formulas, prohibits discipline of planning and placement team members for special education recommendations, and prevents charter school enrollment applications from requesting special education status information