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Signed into law 05/2008 | Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools |
P-12 | Innovation Schools Act of 2008
S.B. 130
Enacts the Innovation Schools Act of 2008; authorizes school district boards of education to implement policy innovations in public schools through the development of an innovation plan designed to meet the educational needs of a diverse and constantly changin...
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Signed into law 05/2007 | Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
P-12 | Online Education Policies
S.B. 215
Creates a division in the department of education a division of on-line learning. The purposes of the division are: to support online programs, students, parents, authorizers and others by providing information and access to data, and to facilitate certificati...
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Signed into law 05/2007 | P-3 Governance |
P-12 | Statewide Early Childhood Councils
H.B. 1062
Concerns the creation of a statewide system of early childhood councils to improve and sustain availability, accessibility, capacity and quality of services. The councils will be governed by the department of human services in collaboration with departments of...
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Signed into law 03/2007 | State Longitudinal Data Systems |
P-12 | Teacher Identifier System
S.B. 140
Creates the Effective Teachers Commission to study development of a teacher identifer system. A primary purpose of the identifier system would be to document and track teacher qualifications across and within districts to address the "teacher quality gap."
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Signed into law 02/2007 | Accountability |
P-12 | Growth Model for Student Performance
H.B. 1048
Requires the convening of a technical advisory panel to assist in the development of a longitudinal growth model to measure the academic growth of students; requires the panel to develop a new method to identify schools that demonstrate the highest rate of aca...
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Signed into law 05/2006 | Leadership |
P-12 | Principal Evaluations and Development
H.B. 1001
Concerns principals in public schools; requires the state board of education to direct the department of education annually to survey school district superintendents who employ new principals; requires school districts to provide observations and written evalu...
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Vetoed 05/2006 | P-3 |
P-12 | Statewide Early Childhood Councils
H.B. 1397
Concerns the creation and duties of a statewide system of integrated early childhood councils. Repeals the pilot program for community consolidated child care services; incorporates the pilot program into a new integrated statewide system of early childhood co...
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Signed into law 04/2006 | Health--Mental Health |
P-12 | Teacher Professional Development on Student Mental Health
H.B. 1098
Allows public school teachers to receive professional development credit by attending an in-service program on juvenile mental health
issues, including awareness and prevention of youth suicide.
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Signed into law 04/2006 | Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
P-12 | Online Course Reimbursement
H.B. 1008
Concerns reimbursement for supplemental on-line education courses. School districts and charter schools may receive reimbursement for all or a portion of the costs incurred in purchasing supplemental online education courses for students in grades 6-12. For ex...
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Signed into law 06/2005 | Accountability--Accreditation |
P-12 | Accreditation Indicators and Dropout/Graduation Rates
S.B. 91
Standardizes the calculation of graduation rates and dropout rates that are required to be reported by school districts for accreditation. Standardizes and requires the reporting of continuing education rates and mobility rates by school districts for accredit...
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Signed into law 06/2005 | Accountability--Reporting Results |
P-12 | Educational Data Advisory Committee
S.B. 19
Requires the state board to identify volunteer districts, boards of cooperative services and a charter school to send representatives to form the "educational data advisory committee" to work with the department to review school data reporting requirements. Re...
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Vetoed 06/2005 | Curriculum--International Education |
P-12 | International Education Advisory Council
H.B. 1087
Recognizes the importance of international education in public elementary and secondary schools. Directs the state board of education to appoint an international education advisory council to explore international opportunities for learning, professional devel...
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Signed into law 06/2005 | Health--Child Abuse |
P-12 | Child Fatality Prevention Act
H.B. 1280
Defines "unexpected and unexplained death" as a death that, prior to investigation, appears to have been caused by trauma, suspicious or obscure circumstances, or child abuse or neglect. Includes death from vehicular trauma, fire, drowning, abuse, suicide and ...
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Signed into law 05/2005 | Assessment--Accommodations |
P-12 | Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in State Assessment
H.B. 1246
Provides that if, as part of a student's individual educational program (IEP), a student attends part-time a school or program away from the school where the student is enrolled, the district in which a student is enrolled may designate either the school of re...
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Signed into law 05/2005 | High School |
P-12,
Postsec. | College Preparatory Courses/Exam Scores and Remediation
H.B. 1027
Beginning in spring 2006, requires the commission on higher education to send an annual notice concerning college preparatory courses to the parent of every 11th-grade student prior to the start of grade 12 if the student took the ACT or prior to the start of ...
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Signed into law 05/2005 | Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
P-12,
Postsec. | Notice of Postsecondary Education Opportunities
H.B. 1057
Beginning with the spring of 2006, requires the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to annually send the parents of all eighth-graders in public schools, prior to enrollment in ninth-grade courses, a list of courses the district offers that satisfy the sta...
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