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CHAPTER 163c
EDUCATION EVALUATION AND
REMEDIAL ASSISTANCE
Table of Contents
Sec. 10-14m. Development and submission of educational evaluation and remedial assistance plan. Contents of plan.
Sec. 10-14n. State-wide mastery examination. Certification of mastery. Limitations on use of test results.
Secs. 10-14o and 10-14p. Compensatory education grant; financial statement of expenditures. Reports by local and regional boards re instructional improvement and student progress; assessment by state board.
Sec. 10-14q. *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Exceptions.
Sec. 10-14r. Regulations.
Section 10-14m is repealed, effective June
28, 1995.
(P.A. 78-194, S. 1, 9; P.A. 83-454, S. 1, 4; P.A. 84-293, S. 1, 5; P.A. 95-182, S. 10, 11.)
(a) Each student enrolled in the fourth grade in any
public school shall annually take a state-wide mastery examination. For purposes of this
section, a state-wide mastery examination is defined as an examination which measures
whether or not a student has mastered essential grade-level skills in reading, language
arts and mathematics. The mastery examination shall be provided by and administered
under the supervision of the State Board of Education.
(b) Each student enrolled in the sixth grade and each student enrolled in the eighth
grade in any public school shall annually take a state-wide mastery examination. Such
mastery examination shall be provided by and administered under the supervision of
the State Board of Education.
(c) Annually each student enrolled in the tenth grade in any public school or any
endowed or incorporated high school or academy approved by the State Board of Education pursuant to section 10-34 shall take a state-wide mastery examination. Such mastery
examination shall be provided by and administered under the supervision of the State
Board of Education.
(d) If a student meets or exceeds the state-wide mastery goal level on each component of the state-wide tenth grade mastery examination, certification of such mastery
shall be made on the permanent record and the transcript of each such student. Each
student who fails to meet the mastery goal level on each component of said mastery
examination may annually take or retake each such component at its regular administration until such student scores at or above each such state-wide mastery goal level or
such student graduates or reaches age twenty-one.
(e) No such public school or endowed or incorporated high school or academy may
require achievement of a satisfactory score on the state-wide mastery examination, or
any subsequent retest on a component of such examination as the sole criterion of promotion or graduation.
(P.A. 78-194, S. 2, 9; P.A. 82-387, S. 1, 2; P.A. 83-454, S. 2—4; P.A. 84-293, S. 2, 5; P.A. 88-136, S. 23, 37; P.A. 90-
324, S. 1, 13; P.A. 92-58; 92-262, S. 3, 42; P.A. 93-353, S. 38, 52; P.A. 94-245, S. 33, 46; P.A. 97-247, S. 5, 27.)
History: P.A. 82-387 added Subsecs. (b) and (c) requiring retesting of students who tested below the state-wide level
of expected performance on any component of the ninth grade proficiency exam and prohibiting use of the exam or any
retest for purposes of determining promotion or graduation; P.A. 83-454 amended Subsec. (a), moving ninth grade exam
to eighth grade, effective July 1, 1984, and providing for transition year test in the ninth grade and amended Subsecs. (b)
and (c), making technical revisions; P.A. 84-293 amended Subsec. (a) substituting "ninth" grade test for "eighth" grade
test up to and including the 1986—1987 school year, inserted new Subsec. (b) re fourth grade state-wide mastery exam,
and new Subsec. (c) re sixth and eighth grade state-wide mastery exam, relettering former Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (d) and
adding provision re retesting using the eighth grade test, inserted new Subsec. (e) also re retesting on the eighth grade test
and relettered former Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (f), adding provision to include mastery exam and changing limitation on use
of test from "a condition of promotion or graduation" to prohibition of use as "the sole criterion" of promotion or graduation;
P.A. 88-136 deleted obsolete provisions including Subsecs. (a) and (d) re proficiency examination and relettered remaining
Subsecs; P.A. 90-324 in Subsec. (c) limited the taking and retaking of the eighth grade mastery examination to prior to
September 1, 1993, inserted new Subsecs. (d) and (e) re tenth grade mastery examination and relettered former Subsec.
(d) as Subsec. (f); P.A. 92-58 inserted new Subsec. (f) concerning educational mastery and relettered the existing Subsec.
(f) as Subsec. (g); P.A. 92-262 amended Subsec. (c) to add the requirement for certain ninth grade students to take or retake
the eighth grade mastery examination; P.A. 93-353 amended Subsec. (e) to change the requirement for taking or retaking the
examination to failure to pass each component required pursuant to Subsec. (a) rather than failure to pass each component,
effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-245 deleted former Subsecs. (c) and (e) providing for the retaking of the examination by
students who failed to meet a state-wide standard for remedial assistance and relettered the remaining Subsecs. and changed
the date for implementation of mastery certification, effective June 2, 1994; P.A. 97-247 made technical changes and in
Subsec. (c) added the reference to approval by the State Board of Education pursuant to Sec. 10-34 to describe endowed
or incorporated high school or academy, effective July 1, 1997.
Secs. 10-14o and 10-14p. Compensatory education grant; financial statement
of expenditures. Reports by local and regional boards re instructional improvement and student progress; assessment by state board. Sections 10-14o and 10-14p
are repealed.
(P.A. 78-194, S. 3, 4, 9; P.A. 82-471, S. 1—3, 6; P.A. 83-363, S. 3, 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-4, S. 4, 8; P.A. 84-117,
S. 1, 2; 84-255, S. 1, 2, 21; 84-293, S. 3—5; P.A. 85-182, S. 1, 2; P.A. 86-333, S. 3, 32; P.A. 88-136, S. 2, 37; 88-358, S.
7, 9; P.A. 91-401, S. 12, 20; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7, S. 1, 22; P.A. 92-170, S. 25, 26; 92-262, S. 41, 42.)
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all students requiring special
education pursuant to section 10-76a, except in the rare case when the planning and
placement team for an individual student determines that an alternate assessment as
specified by the State Board of Education is appropriate. The provisions of this chapter
shall not apply to any student enrolled for ten school months or less in a bilingual program
pursuant to sections 10-17e and 10-17f or to any student enrolled for ten school months
or less in an English as a second language program.
(P.A. 78-194, S. 5, 9; P.A. 79-128, S. 15, 36; P.A. 81-141; P.A. 83-369, S. 1, 2; P.A. 84-255, S. 3, 21; P.A. 88-360, S.
6, 63; P.A. 92-262, S. 38, 42; P.A. 93-353, S. 4, 52; P.A. 99-211, S. 7, 10; P.A. 01-205, S. 1, 3.)
*Note: On and after July 1, 2003, this section, as amended by section 5 of public act
02-7 of the May 9 special session, is to read as follows:
"Sec. 10-14q. Exceptions. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all students
requiring special education pursuant to section 10-76a, except in the rare case when the
planning and placement team for an individual student determines that an alternate
assessment as specified by the State Board of Education is appropriate. The provisions
of this chapter shall not apply to (1) any limited English proficient student, as defined
in Title VII of the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994, P.L. 103-382, enrolled
in school for ten school months or less, or (2) any limited English proficient student
enrolled in school for more than ten school months and less than twenty school months
who scores below the level established by the State Board of Education on the linguistic
portion of the designated English mastery standard assessment administered in the
month prior to the administration of the state-wide mastery examination."
(P.A. 78-194, S. 5, 9; P.A. 79-128, S. 15, 36; P.A. 81-141; P.A. 83-369, S. 1, 2; P.A. 84-255, S. 3, 21; P.A. 88-360, S.
6, 63; P.A. 92-262, S. 38, 42; P.A. 93-353, S. 4, 52; P.A. 99-211, S. 7, 10; P.A. 01-205, S. 1, 3; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-
7, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 79-128 provided exception to provisions of chapter for students requiring special education pursuant to
Sec. 10-76a unless otherwise determined by planning and placement team and provided exception to provisions of Sec.
10-14o for students enrolled in special education or bilingual programs under Sec. 10-76g, previously entire chapter was
inapplicable to students in special education or bilingual programs; P.A. 81-141 provided that children requiring special
education shall take proficiency exams administered by their school districts except in those instances when the child's
planning and placement team determines that it would be inappropriate for the child to take the examinations, where
previously such children had been altogether exempt from proficiency exam requirement; P.A. 83-369 added provisions
exempting from proficiency testing students enrolled for two years or less in a bilingual education program or enrolled for
two years or less in an English as a second language program; P.A. 84-255 amended section to clarify that the provisions
of Sec. 10-14o relating to the compensatory education grant are applicable to students required to take the state-wide
proficiency examination who are enrolled in a special education program and to students enrolled in programs of bilingual
education which are eligible for state funding, where previously they were inapplicable to such students; P.A. 88-360
substituted "mastery" for "proficiency" examination; P.A. 92-262 removed provision specifying applicability of repealed
Sec. 10-14o to special education and bilingual program students; P.A. 93-353 amended section to extend the exceptions
from two to three years, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 99-211 changed three years to thirty school months in two places,
effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 01-205 changed "any student" to "all students", added language specifying that the exception
for a special education student is "in the rare case", substituted provision for the planning and placement team to specify
an alternate assessment for former provision exempting the student from the examination and changed the time frame for
the exception for bilingual education students and English as a second language students from thirty to ten school months,
effective July 1, 2001; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7 added Subdiv. (1) designator, replaced language re bilingual program
with language re limited English proficient students and added new Subdiv. (2) re limited English proficient students
scoring below minimum level on linguistic portion of mastery exam, effective July 1, 2003.
Cited. 187 C. 187, 190. Cited. 195 C. 24, 26, 27, 29, 31, 34, 35, 38.
The State Board of Education shall promulgate such
regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 as are necessary to carry
out the purposes of this chapter.
(P.A. 78-194, S. 6, 9.)
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