Connecticut House Bill 5491 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-2-1)
Status: Engrossed on April 30 2010 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-05-01 - File Number 685
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

To allow parents to vote to restructure a school that has been identified as in need of improvement pursuant to the federal No Child Left Behind Act; to establish an income tax reimbursement pilot competitive grant program for teachers in priority school districts; to include student academic growth as a factor in educator performance evaluations; to create an online credit recovery program for school districts with dropout rates of eight per cent or greater; to require school districts to conduct two parent-teacher conferences per school year; to establish a task force responsible for examining the achievement gap in Connecticut; to change the date of counting students for purposes of ECS from October first to March first and to require school districts to implement an advanced placement course program.

An Act Concerning Certain School District Reforms To Reduce The Achievement Gap In Connecticut.

Rep. Catherine Abercrombie [D]	Rep. David Baram [D]	Rep. Jeffrey Berger [D]	Rep. Matthew Conway [D]
Rep. Michelle Cook [D]	Rep. Thomas Drew [D]	House Education Committee	Rep. Lile Gibbons [R]
Rep. Ernest Hewett [D]	Rep. Susan Johnson [D]	Rep. Barbara Lambert [D]	Rep. Joan Lewis [D]
Rep. Christopher Lyddy [D]	Sen. Patricia Miller [D]	Rep. Mary Mushinsky [D]	Rep. Lonnie Reed [D]
Rep. Kelvin Roldan [D]	Rep. Peggy Sayers [D]	Rep. Linda Schofield [D]	Rep. James Shapiro [D]
Rep. Joseph Taborsak [D]	Rep. Terrie Wood [R]	Rep. Bruce Zalaski [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-05-01		File Number 685
2010-05-01		Senate Calendar Number 530
2010-05-01		Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
2010-04-30		Immediate Transmittal to the Senate
2010-04-30		House Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
2010-04-30		House Adopted House Amendment Schedule A 4776
2010-04-19		File Number 588
2010-04-19		House Calendar Number 367
2010-04-19		Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
2010-04-19		Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
2010-04-12		Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/19/10 10:00 AM
2010-04-01		Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
2010-04-01		Joint Favorable
2010-03-31		Favorable Change of Reference, Senate to Committee on Appropriations
2010-03-30		Favorable Change of Reference, House to Committee on Appropriations
2010-03-30		Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
2010-03-24		Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
2010-03-24		Joint Favorable Substitute Change of Reference Appropriations
2010-03-11		Public Hearing 03/15
2010-03-10		Referred to Joint Committee on Education

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=HB05491&which_year=2010
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/TOB/H/2010HB-05491-R00-HB.htm
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/TOB/H/2010HB-05491-R01-HB.htm
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/TOB/H/2010HB-05491-R02-HB.htm