K-12 Education

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• Schools of Distinction 2015-2016

  The CSDE is recognizing 116 Schools of Distinction according to the following criteria: 1) Highest Performing, 2) Highest Growth, and 3) Greatest Improvers.

• Science Safety

  Students and teachers must be aware of the potential for safety problems in the science classrooms and laboratories. Schools should review available safety resources and develop safety training for their teachers and students as well as safety rules for the classroom.

• Science Standards and Resources

  A foundation in scientific literacy prepares students to be confident and capable lifelong learners who are equipped with the skills needed to access, understand, evaluate and apply information in various contexts.

• 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.

• SIF Help Site

  This site is dedicated to helping you with SIF.

• Smarter Balanced Assessment

  This pages contains resources on the Smarter Balanced assessments.

• Smarter Balanced Parent Guides

• Smarter Balanced Results Resources

  This page provides a toolkit of materials available for districts and members of the public to help interpret Smarter Balanced Assessment results.

• Smarter Balanced Tools for Teachers

  This page provides information about the Smarter Balanced Tools for Teachers. The Smarter Balanced Tools for Teachers is a searchable, interactive online collection of instructional and professional learning resources developed by educators for educators.

• Social Studies Standards and Resources

  Social studies is the integration of knowledge and human experience for the purpose of citizenship.

• 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.

• Special Education Data Collections Help Site

  This site is dedicated to helping you understand all the data elements and important processes within each of the data collections associated with special education data.

• Special Milk Program (SMP)

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture's SMP provides low-fat (1%) or fat-free milk to children in public and private nonprofit schools and child care institutions that do not participate in other USDA Child Nutrition Programs.

• Special Populations on the State Summative Assessments

  This page provides information on the Designated Supports and Accommodations that are available for State Summative Assessments in Connecticut.

• Standards for Educational Opportunities for Students Who Have Been Expelled

  Connecticut law requires LEAs to offer an “alternative educational opportunity” to students who have been expelled in certain circumstances and further provides that LEAs may offer such an opportunity to any expelled student.