Sec. 10-65. Grants for constructing and operating agricultural science and technology education centers. Tuition charges.

(b) (1) Each local or regional board of education not maintaining an agricultural science and technology education center shall provide opportunities for its students to enroll in one or more such centers. If a local or regional board of education provided opportunities for students to enroll in more than one center for the school year commencing July 1, 2007, such board of education shall continue to provide such opportunities to students in accordance with this subsection. (2) The board of education operating an agricultural science and technology education center may charge, subject to the provisions of section 10-65b , tuition for a school year in an amount not to exceed fifty-nine and two-tenths per cent of the foundation level pursuant to subdivision (9) of section 10-262f , per student for the fiscal year in which the tuition is paid, except that (A) such board may charge tuition for (i) students enrolled under shared-time arrangements on a pro rata basis, and (ii) special education students which shall not exceed the actual costs of educating such students minus the amounts received pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section and subsection (c) of this section, and (B) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, such board may charge such tuition in an amount not to exceed fifty-eight per cent of the amount such board charged during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. Any tuition paid by such board for special education students in excess of the tuition paid for non-special-education students shall be reimbursed pursuant to section 10-76g . (c) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, and each fiscal year thereafter, if a local or regional board of education receives an increase in funds pursuant to this section over the amount it received for the prior fiscal year such increase shall not be used to supplant local funding for educational purposes. (d) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, for the purposes of equalization aid under section 10-262h , a student enrolled in an agricultural science and technology education center shall be counted as a resident student, as defined in section 10-262f , of the town in which such student resides.