(a) The State Board of Education shall provide for the development and supervision of the educational programs and services for children requiring special education and may regulate curriculum, conditions of instruction, including the use of physical restraint and seclusion pursuant to section 10-236b, physical facilities and equipment, class composition and size, admission of students, and the requirements respecting necessary special services and instruction to be provided by local and regional boards of education. The educational aspects of all programs and instructional facilities in any day or residential child-caring agency or school which provides training for children requiring special education and which receives funding from the state under the provisions of sections 10-76a to 10-76g, inclusive, shall be subject to the approval and supervision of the commissioner in accordance with regulations adopted by the State Board of Education concerning requirements for such programs and accommodations.

(b) The commissioner shall designate by regulation, subject to the approval of the State Board of Education, the procedures which shall be used to identify exceptional children.

(c) Said board shall be the agency for cooperation and consultation with federal agencies, other state agencies and private bodies on matters of public school education of children requiring special education, provided the full responsibilities for other aspects of the care of such children shall be reserved to such other agencies.

(d) The State Board of Education shall ensure that local and regional boards of education are providing the information described in subparagraph (D) of subdivision (10) of subsection (a) of section 10-76d to the parent or guardian of a child requiring special education or the surrogate parent appointed pursuant to section 10-94g and, in the case of a pupil who is an emancipated minor or eighteen years of age or older, the pupil.

(1967, P.A. 627, S. 2; 1971, P.A. 326; P.A. 73-319; P.A. 75-137; P.A. 76-408; 76-435, S. 78, 82; P.A. 77-614, S. 302, 610; P.A. 78-218, S. 62, 63; P.A. 82-314, S. 48, 63; P.A. 85-377, S. 2, 13; P.A. 96-161, S. 2, 13; P.A. 07-147, S. 4; P.A. 15-141, S. 7; 15-209, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 53.)

History: 1971 act added Subsec. (d) re evaluation and review of programs; P.A. 73-319 amended Subsec. (d) to specify February first deadline for review; P.A. 75-137 amended Subsec. (a) to include power to adopt and enforce regulations concerning special education programs and accommodations for children in institutions; P.A. 76-408 clarified programs and facilities which are subject to state board’s control in Subsec. (a); P.A. 76-435 substituted Secs. 10-76a to 10-76g for Sec. 10-76 in Subsec. (a) and included supervision of programs and facilities among state board’s powers; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of education for secretary of the state board of education, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-218 substituted “local” for “town” boards of education in Subsec. (a) and changed review deadline in Subsec. (d) from February first to the fifteenth; P.A. 82-314 changed official name of education committee; P.A. 85-377 amended Subsecs. (a) and (d) to transfer responsibility for approval, supervision and evaluation of special education programs and facilities from board of education to commissioner of education; P.A. 96-161 deleted Subsec. (d) concerning an evaluation and report to the General Assembly on special education programs, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 07-147 amended Subsec. (a) to specify State Board of Education may regulate conditions of instruction, “including the use of physical restraint and seclusion pursuant to chapter 814e” and to require board to adopt regulations concerning the use of physical restraint and seclusion; P.A. 15-141 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing reference to Ch. 814e with reference to Sec. 10-236b and deleting provision re State Board of Education adopting regulations, effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 15-209 added Subsec. (d) re State Board of Education to ensure local and regional boards of education are providing information, effective July 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (d) by replacing reference to Sec. 10-76d(a)(8)(D) with reference to Sec. 10-76d(a)(10)(D), effective October 31, 2017.