Connecticut

Title 10. Education and Culture
Chapter 170. Boards of Education

Section 10-221a. High school graduation requirements.

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(b) Commencing with classes graduating in 2004, and for each graduating class thereafter, no local or regional board of education shall permit any student to graduate from high school or grant a diploma to any student who has not satisfactorily completed a minimum of twenty credits, . . . not fewer than three in social studies, including at least a one-half credit course on civics and American government. . . .

[This statute was located on May 5, 2005 and may have been modified or amended since that date.]