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  • Grades 9-12: The Art and Accessibility of Music

  • NAEP

    This page provides information about the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). NAEP is the nation’s only ongoing representative sample survey of student achievement in core subject areas.

  • Student Counts

    Analysis of pupil data to make adjustments for a variety of things including, but not limited to, grades, schools, and duplicate entries.

  • Healthy Food Certification (HFC)

    Healthy Food Certification (Section 10-215f of the Connecticut General Statutes) requires that each board of education or governing authority for all public schools participating in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) must certify annually to the Connecticut State Department of Education whether the district will follow the Connecticut Nutrition Standards for all foods sold to students separately from reimbursable school meals.

  • Special Education Guidance Documents and Topic Briefs

    Bureau of Special Education guidance on varied special education-related topics including related service areas and ancillary staff.

  • World Languages

    World language programs in Connecticut public schools include Spanish, French, Latin, Italian, German, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Arabic and Greek. The effort has been to start programs as early as possible in the elementary grades.

  • Private Schools

    Procedures for application as an approved non public school and as a recognized accrediting agency.

  • Income Guidelines for Child Nutrition Programs

    Information on the income guidelines for determining the eligibility of participants for free and reduced-price meals and milk in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Child Nutrition Programs.

  • Area Eligibility for Child Nutrition Programs

    Information on schools with at least 50 percent of children eligible for free and reduced-price meals in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's school nutrition programs.

  • Grant Payments/Procedures

    Information pertaining to grant payments and details going back to 2004.

  • Food Distribution Program (USDA Foods)

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Distribution Program coordinates the distribution of USDA Foods to many of the public and private schools that provide meals to students through the USDA Child Nutrition Programs.

  • Seamless Summer Option (SSO) of the NSLP

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture's SSO combines features of the NSLP, SBP, and SFSP to reduce paperwork and administrative burden, making it easier for schools to feed children from low-income areas during the traditional summer vacation periods.

  • Special Education

    The Special Education Excess Cost Data Collection system is used to collect LEA Excess Cost and State Agency Placement Grant data from school districts.

  • Adult Education Assessment and Accountability

    Adult Education complies with the assessment, accountability and reporting required by state and federal statutes and guidelines as outlined in its State Plan for Adult Education and Family Literacy.

  • Feeding Infants in CACFP Child Care Programs

    Guidance on meeting the requirements of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's CACFP meal patterns for infants (birth through 11 months).