K-12 Education

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• Guidelines for Managing Life-threatening Food Allergies in Connecticut Schools

  These guidelines assist Connecticut schools in managing the health and safety needs of children with life-threatening allergic conditions. Management of the health and safety needs of students with glycogen storage disease (GSD) is also included.

• Health Services Program Information Survey Reports

  Results of a yearly survey on school health services in Connecticut’s public schools.

• 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.

• Healthy School Communities for Successful Students Partnership (Health Education)

  Information on the Connecticut State Department of Education’s grant to increase the capacity of states and local school districts to implement policies and practices in the area of sexual health that improve students’ health and academic outcomes.

• Homeless Education

  The federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act requires all school districts to ensure access to public education for children and youth experiencing homelessness and ensure success in school once enrolled.

• Homeschooling in Connecticut

  Homeschooling as an Option to Public School Education

• How Does Mastery-Based Learning Work?

  With mastery-based learning, all students must demonstrate what they have learned before moving on. Before students can pass a course, move on to the next grade level, or graduate, they must demonstrate that they have mastered the skills and knowledge they were expected to learn.

• Identifying gifted and talented children in CT

  Information for Parents, Educators, and Administrators for gifted and talented children.

• Indirect Cost Proposals

  Applications for grants usually involve a request for reimbursement of both direct and indirect costs. Circular A-87 contains provisions for determining indirect cost rates for grantees and subgrantees of federal grants.

• Information and Technology Literacy

  Information and Technology Literacy subsumes what traditionally has been associated with library media, audiovisual, computer and other educational technology programs.

• Interagency Council for Ending the Achievement Gap

  The Interagency Council for Ending the Achievement Gap is chaired by the Lieutenant Governor and covenes state agency heads in order to coordinate cross-agency efforts to eliminate the academic gaps in Connecticut.

• International Assessments

  This page provides information about the full range of international assessments that are administered in Connecticut schools periodically.

• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

  The ISTE Standards for Students address how students learn, which includes — but does not depend on — the use of technology.

• Kindergarten Inventory

  This page provides information about The Fall Kindergarten Entrance Inventory.

• Learning and Diabetes

  Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in school-aged children, affecting approximately 215,000 young people in the United States, or about 1 in every 400 to 500 young people under 20 years of age.