(a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2006, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional board of education for a priority school district pursuant to section 10-266p shall, within available appropriations, require the schools under its jurisdiction to develop and implement a personal reading plan, as described in section 10-265g, for each student in grades three to five, inclusive, who fails to meet the state-wide standard for remedial assistance on the reading component of the mastery examination, under section 10-14n, unless the school principal determines that such additional instruction is not necessary based on the recommendations of the student's teacher.

(b) Subject to the provisions of this subsection, each local and regional board of education for a priority school district may require, within available appropriations, (1) for the 2005-2006 school year, students in the fourth and sixth grades in schools under its jurisdiction who fail to make progress with the additional instruction provided in their personal reading plans to attend school during the summer following the school year in which the student fails to make such progress, and (2) for the 2006-2007 school year, and each school year thereafter, students in the schools under its jurisdiction who fail in fourth, fifth or sixth grade to make progress with the additional instruction provided in their personal reading plans to attend school the summer following the school year in which they failed to make such progress. The superintendent of schools may exempt an individual student from such requirement, upon the recommendation of the school principal. If a student does not receive such an exemption, has been offered the opportunity to attend a summer school program and fails to attend summer school, the local or regional board of education shall not promote the student to the next grade.

(P.A. 99-288, S. 3, 6; P.A. 01-173, S. 23, 67; P.A. 03-174, S. 9; P.A. 06-135, S. 15; P.A. 13-207, S. 11.)

History: P.A. 99-288 effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 01-173 specified failure to meet the remedial standard on the “reading component” of the fourth grade mastery examination as the trigger for additional instruction in Subsec. (a) and for summer school in Subsec. (b) and made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 03-174 amended Subsec. (b)(2) by adding “within available appropriations”, effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 06-135 amended Subsec. (a) by requiring, for the 2006-2007 school year and each school year thereafter, that the district implement personal reading plans, by expanding the grade levels to include third and fifth grades and by replacing summer school requirement with provision re additional instruction when necessary, amended Subsec. (b) by requiring, for the 2005-2006 school year, that the district require students in grades four and six with a personal reading plan who fail to make progress to attend summer school, and by requiring, for the 2006-2007 and each school year thereafter, that students in grade levels four through six be subject to the same requirement, effective June 6, 2006; P.A. 13-207 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing reference to reading component of the third, fourth or fifth grade mastery examination with provisions re students in grades three to five, inclusive, and reading component of the mastery examination and by making technical changes, effective July 1, 2013.