(a) Each local and regional board of education, within available appropriations, shall be eligible to receive a state grant of funds as a reward for demonstrating improvement in district-wide student achievement on the mastery examinations, under subsection (b) of section 10-14n. Each local and regional board of education shall receive a proportional share of the amount appropriated for purposes of this section based upon the improvement in its mastery goal improvement count, as defined in subdivision (31) of section 10-262f. The minimum grant for each eligible town shall be five hundred dollars. Each local and regional board of education shall expend grant funds pursuant to this section on behalf of its schools in a manner consistent with each school's relative contribution to the level of mastery goal achievement within the district.

(b) Each town which receives funds pursuant to this section shall make such funds available to its local or regional board of education in supplement to any other local appropriation, other state or federal grant or other revenue to which the local or regional board of education is entitled.

(P.A. 95-226, S. 6, 30; P.A. 97-318, S. 5, 12; P.A. 05-13, S. 4; P.A. 13-207, S. 9.)

History: P.A. 95-226 effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 97-318 made a technical change, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 05-13 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective May 4, 2005; P.A. 13-207 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “state-wide mastery examinations under subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of section 10-14n” with “mastery examinations, under subsection (b) of section 10-14n”, effective July 1, 2013.