"Education in Care and Treatment Settings Act"; defining certain terms;
providing for education in care and treatment centers; specifying a process of
placing a child in a care and treatment program; establishing a flexible school calendar; establishing an education services fund to pay the costs of educating children placed in a care and treatment program for a certain amount of time; requiring a district enrolling a homeless child to provide transportation for the child, specifying exceptions; specifying transportation aid eligibility for school districts and charter schools required to provide transportation services to a child in a care and treatment program; establishing pupil unit for a pupil in a day treatment program; defining mental health day treatment program; allowing care and treatment program pupils participation in the graduation incentives program, nonresident transportation, and transportation aid; modifying the commissioner of education approval of education programs requirement; appropriating money to the commissioner of education; repealing special instructions for nonresident children, placement in another district responsibility, placement of students approval of education program, and residential treatment facilities departments of human services and corrections education screening
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