| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
|
 Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Common Core Assessments
H.B. 1240 (section 58)
Indicates that Colorado will participate as a governing board member, at least until January 2014, in the consortium of states that are deve...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Preschool Programs in Charter Schools
H.B. 1240 (section 51)
Allows charter schools that are authorized to provide kindergarten to also offer preschool programs. Addresses requirements for the preschoo...
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Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | No Trans Fats In Public School Foods
S.B. 68
Prohibits a public school or institute charter school from making available to a student a food item that contains any amount of industriall...
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Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Online Programs and Schools (section 14)
H.B. 1240 (section 14)
Revises current statute to distinguish between online schools and online programs. Incorporates online programs into statutes that apply to ...
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Parent/Family |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Parental Consent For Surveys In K-12 Schools
S.B. 36
Current law prohibits an employee of a school or school district from requiring a student to participate in a survey, analysis, or evaluatio...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. | Improvements In College Completion
H.B. 1155
Allows the Colorado commission on higher education to take into account the rigor of a student's high school courses in establishing academi...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. | Name Change Western State College Of Colorado
H.B. 1331
The bill changes the name of Western state college of Colorado to Western state Colorado university and makes conforming amendments..
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Standards--Common Core State Standards |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Common Core Assessment Consortia
S.B. 172
Directs the state to participate as a governing board member, at least until january 1, 2014, in a consortium of states that focuses on the ...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Effective Educators Low-performing Schools
H.B. 1261
Extends stipends for teachers who are nationally board certified to principals who meet standards for principal certification. Allows nation...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. | High School Early Assessment and Intervention
H.B. 1345 (sections 13 to 15)
Allows districts and charter schools to administer to 9th-12th-grade students the basic skills placement or assessment tests that are used f...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12,
Community College | Funding For Dropout Recovery Programs
H.B. 1146
The bill authorizes a community college to agree with a local education provider to create a dropout recovery program through which a studen...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Charter School Facilities Funding
S.B. 121
The bill extends the time for the notice from 3 to 4 months for a charter school to give notice of intent to apply for financial assistance ...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Two-year Degree Programs
H.B. 1214
The bill allows a Colorado community college to offer a two-year degree program with academic designation in nursing or dental hygiene witho...
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High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Individual Student Career and Academic Plans
H.B. 1345 (sections 12 and 15)
The state board of education must require schools and charter schools to assist students and their parents/gardians to develop and maintain ...
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High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Concurrent Enrollment For Early High School Grads
H.B. 1043
If, during a high school student's 12-grade year, the number of credit hours the student needs for graduation is less than full-time enrollm...
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Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Colorado Digital Learning Study
H.B. 1124
The bill directs the department of education to commission a study of the issues surrounding integration of digital learning into the statew...
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P-3 |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Ensuring K-3 Literacy Education
H.B. 1238
Requires each local education provider (LEP, i.e., school districts, Boards of Cooperative Educational Services or BOCES, charter schools) t...
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P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Early Literacy Assessment Tool
H.B. 1345 (sec. 7)
Requires the education department to issue request for proposals for the purchase of an early literacy assessment tool that teachers may use...
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Parent/Family |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Parent Involvement In Education
S.B. 160
Amends membership of the Colorado state advisory council for parent involvement in education appointed by the state board of education. Chan...
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Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. | Accreditation for Private Nonprofit and For-profit Institutions
H.B. 1155 (sections 12 to 20)
Details authority, responsibility of Commission on Higher Education to authorize, revoke right of private nonprofit or for-profit institutio...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. | Adams State College Name Change
H.B. 1080
The bill changes the name of Adams state college to Adams state university and makes conforming amendments.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. | Colorado Mesa University
H.B. 1324
The bill changes the admission standards for Colorado Mesa university from "moderately selective" to "selective". The number of members of t...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Safe School Provisions
H.B. 1345 (sec. 22+)
Includes, among other provisions, safe school components. Requires local boards to adopt a mission statement that includes making safety for...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | School Resource Officers and Reporting
H.B. 1345 - School Resource Officers, Reporting of Delinquency
Includes sections on the use of school resource officers (22-32-146) and requires annual reports on the number of students investigated by t...
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School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Grounds for Suspension, Expulsion or Denial of Admission for "Habitually Disruptive"
H.B. 1345 - Suspension/Expulsion Details
Amends reasons for expelling an habitually disruptive student to include committing one of the following offenses on school grounds, in a sc...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. | The Skills For Jobs Act
H.B. 1061
To the extent possible, requires state agencies to produce an annual report regarding state workforce need projections and college credentia...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Charter School Applying, Authorizing and Revoking
S.B. 61
Revises information to be included in charter school application; makes requirements more specific and focused on performance, finances and ...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | For-profit And Nonprofit Charter Schools
S.B. 67
The bill requires each charter school, effective July 1, 2013, to incorporate as a nonprofit corporation. The bill prohibits a board of educ...
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Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Indigenous Language Instruction
S.B. 57
Indicates the circumstances under which the education department may issue a Native American Language and Cultural instruction authorization...
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Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. | Employment Contracts Non-tenure-track Professors
H.B. 1144
The bill authorizes each system of higher education and each campus of each state institution of higher education to employ an unlimited num...
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Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. | Higher Ed Facilities Funding
S.B. 40
Specifies and expands the higher education institutions that are eligible for state controlled maintenance funding.
http://www.leg.state.co....
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Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. | Name Change Metropolitan State College Of Denver
S.B. 148
The bill changes the name of Metropolitan state college of Denver to Metropolitan state university of Denver and makes conforming amendments...
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Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. | CSU Global Campus And CSU Board Of Governors
H.B. 1220
The bill establishes the governance structure for Colorado state university - global campus (CSU global campus), which will be a baccalaurea...
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Postsecondary Success--Completion |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. | Higher Ed Associate Degree Transfer Students
S.B. 45
The bill requires a 4-year state institution of higher education to notify a 2-year institution when a student who transferred from the 2-ye...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | Interventions For Middle School Students
H.B. 1013
The bill directs districts to consider adopting procedures by which the schools use available data to identify and provide intervention serv...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | No School Pupil Enrollment Counts On Holidays
H.B. 1090
Changes the language of the annual pupil count day from October 1 to Pupil Enrollment Count Day to provide flexibility in case Oct. 1 falls ...
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Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | Multi-district On-line Education Programs
H.B. 1212
Clarifies that a "single-district program" means an on-line program that serves only students who reside within a single school district. Th...
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Postsecondary Success--Completion |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. | Higher Ed Prior Learning Assessments
H.B. 1072
Requires the commission on higher education and postsecondary institutions to develop criteria for awarding credit for students' prior learn...
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Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 02/2012 |
P-12 | Evaluation of Educator Effectiveness
H.B. 1001
Senate Bill 10-191, enacted in 2010, requires the general assembly to review and approve the rules adopted by the state board of education i...
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High School--College Readiness |
Final Regulations 06/2011 |
P-12 | Standards for Individual Career and Academic Plans
1 CO ADC 301-81:1.00; 1 CO ADC 301-81:2.00, 01, 02, 03
Establishes Standards for Individual Career and Academic Plans ('ICAP') for students enrolled in public schools.Each ICAP shall include a ca...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Restorative Justice
H.B. 1032
Defines "restorative justice". The general assembly encourages each district to implement training and education in the principles and pract...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 | Charter School Facilities and Closings
S.B. 188
Concerns increasing the state's oversight of the program that allows the financing of capital construction for charter schools. Addresses ot...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Master Plan
S.B. 52
Directs the commission on higher education to design a master plan that achieves the following goals: increasing the overall number of degre...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 | Public Education Fund Tax Contribution
S.B. 109
Creates a voluntary contribution designation benefiting the Public Education Fund to appear on the state individual tax return forms. Allows...
| More... |
High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Task Force on Student Academic Success
S.B. 111
Creates the Task Force on Student Academic Success. The overall charge of the task force is to identify the junctures at which grade-level p...
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P-3 Governance |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 | Colorado Early Learning Council Advisory Team
S.B. 247
Repeals the Colorado Early Learning Council Advisory Team.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2011a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/67F42E4F689F9AAC8...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Guaranteed Tuition/Fees
H.B. 1301
Revises policies related to guaranteed tuition and fee rates by higher education institutions. Limits the contracts between students and ins...
| More... |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 | Student Bullying Prevention and Education
H.B. 1254
Creates a student bullying prevention and education grant program for schools in the department of education.Spells out terms and requiremen...
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School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 | School Discipline and Zero Tolerance Policies
S.B. 133
Creates a task force to study school discipline practices and zero tolerance policies and the use of law enforcement and other juvenile just...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 | Offenses Disqualifying Employment and Revoking Licenses
H.B. 1121
Adds criminal offenses and circumstances that disqualify individuals from employment at districts and schools, based primarily on background...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 | Background Checks for School Contractors
S.B. 266
Requires background checks for employees of entities that contract to perform direct services for public schools.
http://www.leg.state.co.us...
| More... |
Special Education--Finance |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 | Special Education Definitions, Placement and Funding
H.B. 1277
Revises special education statutes. Expands definition of children with disabilities to include conditions such as autism and serious emotio...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec. | Teacher Preparation Programs
S.B. 245
Revises statutes related to teacher preparation and evaluation and expands several sections to include principals. Some areas of revision in...
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Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 | Parental Involvement and School Improvement Plans
H.B. 1126
Encourages districts to adopt policies to increase parental involvement. Requires schools that must develop improvement plans to notify pare...
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Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 | Physical Education/Activity Requirements
H.B. 1069
Requires districts and charter schools to adopt policies to incorporate time for physical activity into schedules for elementary students. S...
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Postsecondary Institutions |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Postsecondary Campus Safety
H.B. 1169
Clarifies the information sharing by higher education institution police to various individuals and entities regarding campus safety and inc...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 | Teacher License Renewal
H.B. 1201
To renew a professional educator license, a licensee must show that he or she completed certain professional development activities. The dep...
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Attendance--Truancy |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Truancy Policies
H.B. 1053
Encourages school districts and courts to consider detention and incarceration as a last resort approach for addressing the problem of stude...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Charter Schools Grant Applications
H.B. 1089
Concerns procedures for charter schools that apply for grants.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2011a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/72F3BE6445179...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Special Education Appeals Process
S.B. 61
Revises process for parents or guardians to appeal decisions related to special education students.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics20...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Gifted and Exceptional Students
H.B. 1077
Revises policies and practices for identifying and serving gifted students and students with disabilities.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/...
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P-16 or P-20 |
Issued 01/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Creating the Governor's Education Leadership Council
E.O. B 2010-010
Creates the Governor's Education Leadership Council as the state's P-20 council, to be housed in the office of the Lieutenant Governor and c...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 | Transition Back to School for At-risk Students
H.B. 1274
Concerns successful transitions back to the public school system for juveniles in out-of-home placement who have demonstrated behavior that ...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 | Charter School and Authorizer Standards
H.B. 1412
Creates the Charter School and Charter Authorizer Standards Review Committee which is charged with making recommendations to the state board...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 | Charter School Services
S.B. 161
Authorizes a charter school to enter into contractual agreements with a board of cooperative services or another charter school for building...
| More... |
Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Visual and Peforming Arts Standards
H.B. 1273
Amends several provisions of the Preschool to Postsecondary Education Alignment Act to specifically incorporate visual arts and performing a...
| More... |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 | Reporting of Child Abuse
S.B. 152
Requires a county department of social services to provide information to a mandatory reporter concerning the mandatory reporter's report to...
| More... |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 | Teacher /Principal Evaluation and Tenure
S.B. 191
Calls for the development of a teacher evaluation system in which at least 50% of the evaluation is determined by the academic growth of the...
| More... |
P-3 Governance |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Leadership Commission
S.B. 195
Creates the Early Childhood Leadership Commission to advance a comprehensive service delivery system for children from birth to 8 years of a...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Higher Education Flexibility
S.B. 3
Provides greater flexibility to improve the financial position of state higher eduation institutions. Requires a common course number system...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | College Savings Accounts for Adult Learners
S.B. 202
Concerns college savings accounts for job retraining for adult learners; provides a tax exemption for employer matching contributions; relat...
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Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | College Core Course Guidelines and Credits
S.B. 108
Allows a nonpublic institution of higher education to choose to participate in public higher education core course guidelines; provides that...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 | Educational Services for Juveniles
S.B. 54
Concerns the provision of educational services for juveniles against whom charges have been filed in district court; requires a school distr...
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State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Student Data and Reporting
H.B. 1171
Relates to a data reporting request based on individual student identifiers, including dropouts, and those enrolled in literacy programs and...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 | At-risk Student Populations
S.B. 154
Expands the definition of high-risk student to include children with disabilities, migrant children, homeless children, children with a docu...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 | School Finance Study
S.B. 8
Authorizes the state education department to contract with an organization to evaluate the feasibility of a system based on the average numb...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 | Alternative Funding Models
H.B. 1183
Creates the alternative school funding models pilot program to encourage school districts and charter schools to collect data that will be u...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 | Farm-To-School Healthy Kids Act
S.B. 81
Creates the Farm-To-School Healthy Kids Act, and, in connection therewith, establishing an interagency task force to develop farm-to-school ...
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P-3 |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Educator Scholarship Program
H.B. 1030
Creates the early childhood educator development scholarship program in the department of education. The program will provide scholarships t...
| More... |
P-3 |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 | Quality in Child Care Program
H.B. 1026
Creates the Quality in Child Care Incentive Grant Program with the objective of providing incentives to county or district departments of so...
| More... |
P-3 Preschool |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Educator Development Scholarship Program
H.B. 1030
Concerns the creation of the early childhood educator development scholarship program; creates the Early Childhood Educator Development Scho...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Baccalaureate Degrees at Two-year Colleges
S.B. 101
Authorizes Colorado mountain college to offer baccalaureate degrees that address the needs of the communities within its service area.
http:...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
S.B. 88
Authorizes community colleges and junior colleges to offer 2-year degree programs with academic designation; provides a community college mu...
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Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Degree Transfer Agreements
H.B. 1208
Requires statewide degree transfer agreements to transfer associate of arts degrees and associate of science degrees from one state institut...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Vocational Education at Correction Institutions
H.B. 1112
Adds vocational programs to the educational programs that are offered by the department of corrections pursuant to the Correctional Educatio...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Public School Financial Transparency Act
H.B. 1036
Enacts the Public School Financial Transparency Act, which requires school districts, district charter schools, boards of cooperative educat...
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P-3 Governance |
Issued 03/2010 |
P-12 | Governor's Early Childhood Leadership Commission
Exec. Order B 2010-002
The Commission is to ensure and advance a comprehensive service delivery system for children from birth to age eight using data to improve d...
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Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Issued 03/2010 |
P-12 | Governor's Council for Educator Effectiveness
Exec. Order B 2010-001
The purpose of the Council is to provide a forum for considering options and providing recommendations to ensure that every educator (teache...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Adopted 02/2010 |
P-12 | Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagment
1 CCR 301-84
Establishes criteria for identifying high priority and priority local education providers and implements the Student Re-engagement Grant Pro...
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Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Adopted 01/2010 |
P-12 | Individual Career and Academic Plans
1 CCR 301-81
Intends to decrease dropout rates and increase graduation rates by assisting students in developing and maintaining a personalized postsecon...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Effectiveness of Educator Preparation Programs
S.B. 36
Requires the Department of Education to prepare an annual report analyzing educator preparation program effectiveness; provides for informat...
| More... |
School Safety |
Adopted 12/2009 |
P-12 | Student Restraints Policy
1 CCR 301-45
Outlines the procedures to be followed in the administration of restraint of students, staff training, documentation requirements, and the r...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 | Colorado Youth Challenge Corps Program
H.B. 1280
Creates the Colorado Youth Challenge Corps Program Act; authorizes the department of military and veterans affairs department to operate a r...
| More... |
Accountability |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 | School Accountability and Accreditation
S.B. 163
Repeals and reenacts the Educational Accreditation Act of 1998 to align accountability and accreditation measures and procedures; assigns sp...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Adopted 05/2009 |
P-12 | Data Reporting for School Accreditation
1 CCR 301-67
Expands mandatory school age to match current law and revises timelines for implementation of the on-time graduation and completion rates.
...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 | Dropout Prevention Pilot Program
S.B. 123
Creates the healthy choices dropout prevention pilot program in the department of education to reduce the dropout rate of adolescent student...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 | Dropout Prevention Office
H.B. 1243
Creates the office of dropout prevention and student re-engagement in the department of education to collaborate with local education provid...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Dual Enrollment and Career/Tech Programs
S.B. 285
Includes career and technical education program providers among the institutions of higher education that are permitted to offer concurrent ...
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Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 | Student Food Allergies Policy
S.B. 226
Requires the State Board of Education to promulgate rules establishing a policy for the management of food allergies and anaphylaxis among s...
| More... |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Dual/Concurrent Enrollment Program
H.B. 1319
Repeals the high school fast track program, the Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act, and the Fast College Fast Jobs Act. Allows school dist...
| More... |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 | Early Childhood School Readiness Commission
H.B. 1343
Creates the early childhood and school readiness legislative oversight commission. Sets forth membership requirements and administrative fun...
| More... |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 | Parent Involvement Council in Education Department
S.B. 90
Creates the state advisory council for parent involvement in education in the department of education. Specifies the council membership. Dir...
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Parent/Family |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 | Parental Leave for School Activities
H.B. 1057
Allows an employee of a qualified employer to take unpaid leave to attend parent-teacher conferences; limits the unpaid leave; permits the e...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 | Renewable Energy Efficiency for School Buildings
H.B. 1312
Creates the renewable energy and energy efficiency for schools loan program to fund renewable energy projects and battery-powered and hybrid...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 | Teacher Identifier Program
H.B. 1065
Extends the repeal date for the quality teachers commission and redefines the time frames within which the commission must accomplish certai...
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Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Alternative Teacher Preparation Program
S.B. 160
Renames the teacher in residence program to be the 2-year alternative teacher program, and relocates the provisions for that program in stat...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 | Education Data Reporting Requirements
H.B. 1214
Concerns education data reporting requirements; clarifies that the Education Data Advisory Committee is directed to review the reporting req...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 | School Food Service Programs
S.B. 230
Allows a school food authority to establish, maintain, equip, and operate a food-service facility; requires a board of education of a school...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 | Discipline for Artificial Firearms at School Property
S.B. 237
Permits, rather than requires, a school district to suspend or expel a student for brandishing an artificial firearm; permits a school distr...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | College Programs for Inmates
H.B. 1264
Requires that costs associated with a college-level academic program for an inmate shall be borne by the inmate unless he or she receives fi...
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Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 | Teacher of the Year Program
H.B. 1240
Creates the Teacher of the Year Program in the Department of Education; requires the State Board of Education to adopt rules for the impleme...
| More... |
Education Research |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Education Innovation Institute
S.B. 32
Creates the Education Innovation Institute within the University of Northern Colorado to collaborate with institutions to leverage research,...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | School Board Meeting Laws
H.B. 1082
Requires a school district board of education to make a recording of each regular and special meeting of the board and to make the recording...
| More... |
P-3 Preschool |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Food Service for Early Childhood Programs
S.B. 33
Adds children enrolled in state-subsidized early childhood education programs operated by public schools and who are eligible for reduced-co...
| More... |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
Postsec. | CO St. Univ. Online University
S.B. 86
Creates an online university to be known as Colorado state university - global campus. States that the university will have moderately selec...
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Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Foster Parent Training
H.B. 1078
Requires that the department of human services make available to foster parents training concerning individualized education programs.
http:...
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Health--Nutrition |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 | School Food Service and Nutrition
1 CCR 301-3
Preserves and protects the nutritional integrity of Food and Nutrition Service operations in public schools and districts. Strengthens and c...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Alternative Teacher Compensation
S.B. 213
Allows the general assembly to determine annually whether to appropriate moneys for the alternative teacher compensation plan grant program;...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 | Alternative Teacher Compensation Grant
1 CCR 301-80
Addresses an alternative teacher compensation plan grant program to be administered through the Department of Education and directs that fun...
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Attendance |
Adopted 01/2009 |
P-12 | Attendence and Truancy Data
1 CCR 301-78
Provides specificity for consistency in reporting attendance and truancy data across school districts and BOCES. Allows the usage these indi...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Adopted 01/2009 |
P-12 | Healthy Beverages in Schools
1 CCR 301-79
Describes beverages that school districts and schools may permit to be sold to students. Establishes minimum standards for beverages. Descri...
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Assessment |
Adopted 10/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Workforce Readiness Assessments
1 CCR 301-77
Addresses the administration of the Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Assessments Pilot Program. Beginning in the 2008-09 academic year,...
| More... |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Adopted 10/2008 |
P-12 | Online Learning Programs
1 CCR 301-71
Establishes rules regarding the administration, certification and oversight of Colorado online education programs. Establishes quality stand...
| More... |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Rejected by voters 09/2008 |
P-12 | Funding for Pre-K to 12 Education
Amendment 59
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution concerning the manner in which the state funds public education from preschool to 12th grade; requ...
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P-3 |
Adopted 09/2008 |
P-12 | Early Access to Education for Students w/ Disabilities
1 CCR 301-8
Addresses early access to educational services for children with disabilities who are less than six years of age.
http://www.sos.state.co....
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School/District Structure/Operations |
Rule Adoption 09/2008 |
P-12 | Regional Service Areas
1 CCR 301-76
Relates to the development, expansion, implementation, and management of regional service areas. On or before December 1, 2008, the State Bo...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Rejected by voters 08/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Funds for College Scholarships and Other Purposes
Amendment 58
Eliminates a credit against the severance tax on oil and gas for property taxes paid by oil and gas producers and interest owners; reduces t...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Approved by voters 08/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Gaming Funds for Community Colleges
Amendment 50
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution concerning limited gaming; allows voters in Central City, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek to vote on...
| More... |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Adopted 08/2008 |
P-12 | School Counselor Corps Grant Program
1 CCR 301-74
Establishes rules regarding the School Counselor Corps Grant Program, including application procedures, review criteria and reporting requir...
| More... |
Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
Approved by voters 07/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Affirmative Action in Education
Amendment 46
Proposes and amendment to the Constitution to prohibit the state from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any indiv...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Vetoed 05/2008 |
P-12 | No Penalties for Students Missing State Assessment
H.B. 1186
Excepts from the calculation of a school's academic performance ratings and from determining accreditation, the assessment scores of student...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Education Programs for Students Placed in Facilities
H.B. 1204
Provides for the oversight of educational programs for children placed within day treatment centers, residential child care facilities, othe...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Background Checks and Investigations for School Employees
S.B. 208
Concerns criminal background investigations of school employees; adds to the list of entities able to conduct inquiries concerning prospecti...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Background Checks for School Employees
H.B. 1344
Requires the Department of Education to respond to a background query concerning a prospective employee within a certain amount of time; dir...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
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 ...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Revisions to School Finance Act
H.B. 1388
Relates to school funding, funded pupil count, on- line pupil enrollment, preschool, supplemental and full day kindergarten, charter schools...
| More... |
Governance |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Youth Advisory Council
H.B. 1157
Establishes a Youth Advisory Council to formally advise and make recommendations to elected officials on issues affecting youth in the State...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | TB Screening for Higher Education Students
S.B. 44
Concerns tuberculosis screening for higher education students; allows each college and university in the state to create a tuberculosis scre...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Child Nutrition School Lunch Protection Program
S.B. 123
Creates the child nutrition school lunch protection program and child nutrition school lunch protection program fund to eliminate the reduce...
| More... |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | School Leadership Academy
H.B. 1386
Creates the school leadership academy program within the Department of Education to provide comprehensive leadership and professional traini...
| More... |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Preschool to Postsecondary Education Alignment Act
S.B. 212
Enacts the Preschool to Postsecondary Education Alignment Act; ensures that a student who enters school ready to succeed and achieves the re...
| More... |
P-3 |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Special Education
H.B. 1366
Recodifies existing statutory provisions related to early intervention services for infants and toddlers with significant developmental dela...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Diplomas from Private Colleges and Universities
S.B. 167
Clarifies the authority related to the authorization to do business for private colleges or universities, bible colleges, and seminaries; pe...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | In-state Tuition for Colorado National Guard
S.B. 166
Allows members of the Colorado National Guard who are eligible for in-state tuition status to receive college opportunity fund moneys.
http:...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Classification of Student for In-state Tuition
S.B. 79
Provides assignment of in-state student tuition classification to a student who is a United States citizen who has attended high school or c...
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Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Addressing Student Literacy Challenges
H.B. 1223
Requires the Department of Education to make available to school districts, administrative units, and local education agencies technical ass...
| More... |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | School Mapping System for First Responders
H.B. 1267
Requires the School Safety Resource Center in the Department of Public Safety to create and operate a first responder school mapping system ...
| More... |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | School Safety Resource Center
S.B. 1
Creates the School Safety Resource Center to assist schools in preventing, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies and...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Regional Service Cooperatives
S.B. 38
Concerns the creation of a system of Regional Service Cooperatives throughout the state to support economic efficiencies in the delivery of ...
| More... |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Gifted and Talented Young Children
H.B. 1021
Amends the definition of gifted children to include children who are 4 years of age; permits an administrative unit to include in its progra...
| More... |
Standards |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Financial Literacy Standards
H.B. 1168
Directs the State Standards and Assessments Development and Implementation Council, the State Board of Education, and school districts to ad...
| More... |
State Policymaking |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Cross-Agency Data Collection To Improve State Policies
H.B. 1364
Creates a data collection development council to increase the efficiency of state government and enhance the ability of mulitiple state agen...
| More... |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | School Counselor Corps Grant Program
H.B. 1370
Makes legislative findings concerning the importance of school counseling services for students in middle, junior high, and high schools; cr...
| More... |
Students |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
H.B. 1317
Creates the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to remove barriers to educational success imposed on childre...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Improving Teaching Quality Policies
H.B. 1384
Requires the Department of Education to administer a biennial teaching and learning conditions survey to all teachers to be used for plannin...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Teacher Loan Forgiveness Pilot Program
H.B. 1255
Expands the definition of rural school district to allow more teachers who teach in rural areas to qualify for the Teacher Loan Forgiveness ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--High-Needs Subjects |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Teach Colorado Scholarship Program
S.B. 133
Creates the Teach Colorado Scholarship Program to provide scholarships to a limited number of undergraduate students who are simultaneously ...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 | Student Truancy and Attendance Reporting
H.B. 1336
Requires the State Board of Education to adopt guidelines for the standardized calculation of unexcused absences of students; requires a sch...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 | Career/Technical Policies
H.B. 1079
Relates to technical education; replaces the term vocational education with the term career and technical education in certain statutes; req...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 04/2008 |
P-12,
Community College | Revisions to Colorado's Vocational Act
8 CCR 1504-2
Clarifies rules regarding the Colorado Vocational Act of 1970, including changing the phrase "Vocational Education" to "Career and Technical...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 | State Charter School Institutes
H.B. 1159
Concerns State Charter School Institutes; relates to open meetings and records laws; relates to school district charter school exclusive aut...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 | School District Wellness Policies
H.B. 1224
Encourages school districts to expand their local wellness policies to adopt goals for emphasizing healthy choices and lifestyles, including...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 | School Nutrition Guidelines
S.B. 129
Requires each School District Board and the State Charter School Institute to adopt and implement a policy that prohibits the sale of certai...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Tuition Assistance for National Guard
H.B. 1252
Allows a member of the Colorado National Guard to receive tuition assistance when enrolled at a private institution of higher education in a...
| More... |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 | Coordinated Response to School Incidents
S.B. 181
Improves coordination among agencies when responding to school incidents; requires the Department of Public Safety to place on its web site ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 | School Bus Safety Signals
H.B. 1339
Concerns school bus safety signals requirements; replaces current statutory equipment standards for a school bus with the current federal re...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 | Student Intervention for Special Education
S.B. 89
Allows an administrative unit to use no more than a specified percentage of the funding it receives under the Exceptional Children's Educati...
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Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 | Transfer of Education Records for Foster Children
H.B. 1019
Requires each school district to appoint a person to act as the child welfare education liaison; provides that when a student in out-of-home...
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Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Special Employment for Military Spouses
H.B. 1162
Allows department of education to issue a military spouse interim authorization that allows to employ a person who is certified or licenced,...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Governance
S.B. 18
Concerns changes to the statutes related to higher education, and, in connection therewith, clarifying the roles of the department of higher...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Peace Officers on Higher Education Campuses
H.B. 1106
Concerns peace officers employed by institutions of higher education; provides that state institutions of higher education are authorized to...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Energy Efficient Schools
H.B. 1025
Creates the Governors energy office; provides that the energy office will work with communities, utilities, organizations and individuals to...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Adopted 03/2008 |
P-12 | Longitudinal Analysis of Student Assessments
1 CCR 301-72
Establishes rules regarding student assessments by establishing a longitudinal growth model and the utilization of a Quantile Regression tec...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | College Textbook Affordability Act
S.B. 73
Concerns requirements for publishers of college educational products doing business with State institutions of higher education, requires en...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
P-12 | Longitudinal Data System
H.B. 1024
Concerns the statistical model for determining a longitudinal analysis of the state student assessment program assessments. Makes revisions ...
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Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 | Summer School Grant Program
1 CCR 301-50
Clarifies rules regarding the Summer School Grant Program for Academic Achievement, including funding provisions, curriculum and assessments...
| More... |
Special Education |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 | Exceptional Children's Education Act
1 CCR 301-8
Clarifies rules regarding the administration of the Exceptional Children's Educational Act, including special education provisions, and fund...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | In-state Tuition for Economic Development Incentives
H.B. 1256
Concerns in-state tuition for persons who move to Colorado as the result of an economic development incentive.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/cl...
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Education Research |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
Postsec. | Innovative Higher Education Research Fund
S.B. 182
Concerns State matching funds for competitive Federally sponsored research projects at Colorado public universities; creates the Higher Educ...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 | Enrollment Count for Military Children
H.B. 1232
Concerns aid for school districts in which pupils who are the dependents of military personnel enroll after October 1.
http://www.leg.state....
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Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 | Gifted & Talented Programs
H.B. 1244
Requires a school district, a board of cooperative services, and the state charter school institute to serve every gifted child; requires th...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | State Report Card Requirements and Procedures
H.B. 1345
Concerns modifications to school accountability reports. Spells out various proceedures and requirements related to state and No Child Left ...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | Charter School Facilities
H.B. 1178
Concerns the use of school district facilities by charter schools. Charter schools may purchase a building and grounds, at a district's desc...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | Science-based Sex Education
H.B. 1292
Concerns the adoption of science-based content standards for instruction regarding human sexuality. The standards are intended to help reduc...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | Start Smart Nutrition Program
S.B. 59
Creates and makes an appropriation for the Start Smart Nutrition Program. The program is intended to ensure all students have a nutritious b...
| More... |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | High School Graduation Requirements
H.B. 1118
Concerns high school graduation requirements. Requires state board of education to set guidelines for high school graduation requirements fo...
| More... |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | Online Education Reimbursement
H.B. 1066
Concerns reimbursement for supplemental on-line education courses. Designates one of the education service districts to contract with a prov...
| More... |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
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 progra...
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P-3 Governance |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
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 qua...
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | Read-to-Achieve Grant Program
S.B. 192
Creates the Read-to-Achieve Grant Program in which grants are given to fund intensive reading programs of eligible public schools for pupils...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | Extended Day Programs for Middle School
H.B. 1248
Creates the Student Before-and After-School Project within the Tony Grampus Youth Service Program to provide funding for before-and-after sc...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | School Safety Alert Policies
S.B. 197
Concerns the Safe-2-Tell program for persons in schools. Sets forth the duties and functions of the safe-2-tell program and
telephone hotlin...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | Immunity Under Safe Schools Plan
S.B. 227
Expands and clarifies the immunity for persons acting in good faith under a safe school plan, with regard to civil prosecution and civil lia...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | Public School Facilities Equity Act
S.B. 41
Concerns the creation of the Public School Facilities Equity Act to address the capital construction needs of public schools in the State. C...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | School Security for Buildings
H.B. 1059
Concerns the School Security Infrastructure Grant Program; provides that the program may be used to remodel or renovate the infrastructure o...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | Review of State Educational Data System
H.B. 1270
Concerns a comprehensive review of the State's educational data infrastructure; makes an appropriation. Authorizes the Department of Educati...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | Improving State Data Collection
H.B. 1320
Concerns education data management.The state board of education will designate at least five districts, two cooperative service boards and a...
| More... |
STEM |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 | After-school Science and Math Programs
H.B. 1243
Establishes the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") after-school education pilot grant program ("grant program") in t...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Display of Flags in Education and Other Institutions
H.B. 1050
Concerns the display of flags. Allows display of flags from countries other than the U.S. or the state of Colorado under particular circumst...
| More... |
High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12,
Community College | Fast College Fast Jobs Pilot Program
S.B. 148
Concerns simultaneous enrollment in secondary and postsecondary institutions.Creates the Fast College Fast Jobs pilot program to allow stude...
| More... |
P-16 or P-20 |
Issued 04/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Creates P-20 Council
Exec. Order B 003 07
Creates the Governor's P-20 Education Coordinating Council, to be known as the P-20 Council. The purpose of the P-20 Council will be to prov...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Minimum Compulsory Attendance Age
S.B. 16
Changes the minimum age for compulsory education from seven to six years, on or before August 1 of each year. Compulsory attendance ages the...
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Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Qualifications of State Education Commissioner
S.B. 20
Clarifies, changes and specifies the qualifications, tenure and performance review criteria for the state Commissioner of Education.
http://...
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No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Requirements for Supplemental Service Providers
H.B. 1077
Concerns requirements on providers of supplemental education services, such as those under No Child Left Behind. The department of education...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec. | Loan Repayments for Public Servants
H.B. 1242
Concerns Higher Education Loan Repayment Assistance Programs for students from institutions of higher education who enter public service car...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec. | Colorado State University System Governing Board
S.B. 52
Concerns changes to the membership requirements for the Board of Governors of the State University System.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/...
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State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
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 wou...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Alternative Teacher Program
H.B. 1091
Allows for the extension of alternative teacher programs and contracts beyone one year.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/Clics2007A/csl.nsf/...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Vetoed 03/2007 |
P-12 | Physical Education Teacher Qualifications
H.B. 1122
Explains certification and experience requirements for physical education teachers.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/Clics2007A/csl.nsf/fsb...
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Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec. | Review of Teacher Preparation Programs
S.B. 19
Changes statues to require the review of teacher preparation programs not more frequently than once every five years. Previous language requ...
| More... |
Accountability |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
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 gro...
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Funding for Full-day Kindergarten
S.B. 26
Authorizes a school district, upon voter approval, to impose an additional mill levy for purposes of funding the school district's excess fu...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Rejected by voters 11/2006 |
P-12 | District Budget Requirements (65%) as Statute
Referendum J
(REFERENDUM J; HB 06-1283) Creates the State Public School Expenditures Accountability Act. If approved, would amend state statutes to requi...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Rejected by voters 06/2006 |
P-12 | 65% of School Budgets for Instruction
Amendment 39 (H.B. 1283)
Proposes a constitutional amendment to require that in each state fiscal year a school district spend at least 65% of its operational expend...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Vetoed 05/2006 |
P-12 | School Performance Ratings
S.B. 69
Concerns school accountability; establishes that, if a school covers more than one school level, it shall be assigned one academic performan...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Vetoed 05/2006 |
P-12 | Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Program
H.B. 1363
Creates the student delinquency prevention program, within the Tony Grampsas youth services program, to provide funding for before-and-after...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 | Compulsory Attendance Age and Hour Requirements
S.B. 73
Concerns the age specifications relating to compulsory school attendance. Every child who has attained the age of seven years and is under t...
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Health |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 | School-based Health Clinics
H.B. 1396
Creates a grant program in the prevention services division of the department of public health and environment for the purpose of providing ...
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Health |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 | Student Medicaid Eligibility
H.B. 1270
Establishes a demonstration project to authorize qualified public school personnel to make determinations of eligibility for medicaid and th...
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Health--Suicide Prevention |
To governor 05/2006 |
Postsec. | Suicide Prevention Procedures for Higher Education
S.B. 67
Concerns suicidal behavior among students in higher education; authorizes selected state institutions of higher education to notify a design...
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High School |
Became law without governor's signature 05/2006 |
P-12 | Community Service Recognition
H.B. 1121
Concerns recognition of community service performed by students; requires each school district to adopt a policy whereby a student may earn ...
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Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
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...
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P-16 or P-20 |
Vetoed 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | P-16 Committee and Council
S.B. 46
Concerns the study of an education system ranging from pre-kindergarten through higher education, and, in connection therewith, creates a le...
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P-3 |
Vetoed 05/2006 |
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 conso...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Vetoed 05/2006 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Financing Task Force
S.B. 209
Concerns the creation of a task force to study the state's system of higher education financing; requires each state institution of higher e...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Governing Boards
S.B. 204
Amends the statutes pertaining to each governing board of higher education to require that a member of the board who is appointed by the gov...
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Postsecondary Success--Completion |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
Postsec. | Support for Underserved Students in Higher Education
H.B. 1024
Concerns underserved students at institutions of higher education; requires each institution of higher education performance contract to inc...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 | Educational Materials for Visually Impaired Students
H.B. 1004
Creates the educational materials for the blind and dyslexic grant program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations that provide school ...
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Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 | Revoking Educator Licenses and Terminating Employment
S.B. 176
Concerns requirements for educators; clarifies grounds on which the department of education may deny, annul, suspend, or revoke an educator'...
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Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Measuring Student and School Performance
H.B. 1109
Concerns measuring public school effectiveness; identifies the schools that receive the governor's distinguished improvement awards; instruc...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Teen Pregnancy and Dropout Prevention
H.B. 1351
Concerns the continuation of the statewide program for teen pregnancy and dropout prevention; changes the required report date for the state...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | School Funding Levels and Formula
H.B. 1375
Concerns the financing of public schools; increases the statewide base per pupil funding to account for a higher inflation rate; provides th...
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Health--Mental Health |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
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...
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Health--Nutrition |
Vetoed 04/2006 |
P-12 | Nutritional Vending Machine Items in Schools
H.B. 1056
Concerns the provision of healthy nutrition alternatives in public schools; requires each school district board of education to adopt a poli...
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Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | School Lunch Program
S.B. 127
Concerns the provision of fresh produce in public schools; creates a program to make free fruits and vegetables available to students in pub...
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Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
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...
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Postsecondary |
Vetoed 04/2006 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Policy Procedures
S.B. 203
Requires all policies and amendments to existing policies adopted by the commission on higher education to be promulgated in accordance with...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Vetoed 04/2006 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Board Membership
S.B. 205
Concerns the membership requirements of boards created in the department of higher education; requires that at least 2 members of the commis...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | School Safety Reports
S.B. 55
Concerns reports of assaults in schools; adds third degree assaults, vehicular assaults, and disorderly conduct involving fighting to the ty...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Special Education Policy Changes and Implementation
S.B. 118
Concerns amendments to the exceptional children's educational act to conform with the federal individuals with disabilities education improv...
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State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Student Identifier Numbers
S.B. 24
Concerns student data from the elementary to secondary education system through the postsecondary education system; requires a postsecondary...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Vetoed 04/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Physical Education Teacher Certification
H.B. 1021
Concerns physical education teachers employed by school districts; prohibits a school district from employing as a physical education teache...
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Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | School Improvement and Reviews
H.B. 1240
Concerns measures to improve the academic performance of unsatisfactory public schools; allows a school that receives an overall academic pe...
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P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Vetoed 03/2006 |
P-12 | Full-day Kindergarten Funds and Policies
H.B. 1005
Authorizes of additional school district revenues to fund costs associated with full-day kindergarten programs. Districts that receive voter...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec. | Student Loan Policies
H.B. 1260
Concerns student loan programs in the Department of Higher Education; specifies that the Director of CollegeInvest shall be the Director of ...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
To governor 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Licensure for Teachers in Residence and Alternative Routes
H.B. 1023
On completion of the two-year or three-year residency program, the Colorado Department of Education may issue an initial teacher license to ...
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Student Achievement |
Adopted 01/2006 |
P-12 | Closing the Achievement Gap - Participation Criteria
1 CCR 301-69
Establishes rules regarding the administration of closing theachievement gap.
The Colorado State Board of Education must determine the crit...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Adopted 11/2005 |
P-12 | Dropout Prevention Activity Grant Program
1 CCR 301-66
The Dropout Prevention Activity Grant Program requires the State Board of Education to define procedures for applying for a grant, and the c...
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P-16 or P-20 |
Issued 10/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Colorado Education Alignment Council
Executive Order B 009 05
Creates Colorado Education Alignment Council, sets membership rules and power and duties of council. Council is to study Colordo's secondar...
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Accountability |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
P-12 | School Safety and Accountability Reports Content/Design/Layout
S.B. 214 (Section 3)
Requires the department to convene a working group of specified members to evaluate the current rules, definitions and reporting of incident...
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Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
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. S...
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Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
P-12 | Evaluation of State Accountability System and Revised Designations
S.B. 214 (Section 1-2)
Requires the department to contract every 3 years for an independent evaluation of the state accountability system and the No Child Left Beh...
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Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
P-12 | Diagnostic Academic Growth Calculation
S.B. 214 (Section 7-8)
Section 7: Encourages the state board to establish accreditation indicators based in part on the diagnostic academic growth calculation adde...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
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 for...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 | Sufficient Academic Growth
H.B. 1217
Modifies definition of "sufficient academic growth" for purposes of diagnostic assessment. Makes related changes to governor's distinguished...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
P-12 | School Accountability Reports and State Accreditation
S.B. 214 (Section 4-6)
Section 4: Repeals and reenacts 22-7-605 pertaining to the content and format of state-mandated school accountability reports.
Section 5: ...
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Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
P-12 | Corrective Action
H.B. 1216
Repeals and reenacts the corrective action provisions for underperforming public schools. Requires the state board to annually notify each d...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 | Students Whose Parents Are Incarcerated
H.B. 1088
Requires the department of corrections to obtain information from each inmate on whether the inmate is the parent of a child under the age o...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 | Evaluation of Expelled and At-Risk Student Services Grant Program
H.B. 1311
Authorizes the department of education to retain up to 1% of any appropriation for the expelled and at-risk student services grant program t...
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Curriculum |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
P-12 | Statewide Physical Education Recognition Program
H.B. 1237
Establishes the statewide physical education recognition program to recognize and reward public schools and physical education teachers meet...
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Curriculum--International Education |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
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 app...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
Postsec. | College Opportunity Fund
S.B. 132
Specifies that a student who is eligible to receive a stipend may receive a stipend for graduate level courses that apply toward the student...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 | Date for Counting Preschoolers and 3- and 4-Year-Olds with Disabilities
S.B. 32
Makes an accomodation for counting preschoolers and 3- and 4-year olds with disabilities enrolled (for state funding purposes) by letting sc...
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Finance--Student Fees |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 | Transportation Fees
H.B. 1191
Authorizes school districts to impose a fee for transportation by resolution of the board, rather than by a vote of the people. Adds that di...
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Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
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 obs...
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Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
P-12 | Supplemental Online Education Courses
S.B. 139
Recognizes the importance of supplemental online education courses, especially to smaller districts and rural schools. States that such cour...
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P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 | School-Readiness Quality Improvement Program
H.B. 1238
Changes the name of the "school-readiness child care subsidization program" to the "school-readiness quality improvement program". Recognize...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
Postsec. | In-State Tuition for Members of the Armed Service
S.B. 158
Provides in-state tuition for members of the armed who are domiciled in Colorado for 12 continuous months...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
Postsec. | Colorado National Guard Tuition Assistance
S.B. 53
Provides tuition assistance for members of the Colorado National Guard who serve at least one year while they are receiving tuition and fee ...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
Postsec. |
S.B. 204
Requires that the voting members of the board of governors of the Colorado state university system ("CSU board") include 3 members, each of ...
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Assessment--Accommodations |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
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...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 | Teacher Loan Forgiveness Pilot Program
S.B. 191
Defines "high-poverty school" and "rural school district." Expands teacher loan forgiveness pilot program to include teachers who (1) contra...
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Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 | Dropout Prevention Activity Grant Program
H.B. 1024
Creates the dropout prevention activity grant program to fund before- and after-school arts-based and vocational activity programs for stude...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Additional Revenues for Education
H.B. 1350
From the fiscal note: This bill specifies that moneys in the General Fund Exempt Account shall be appropriated or transferred in the followi...
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High School |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
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...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
Postsec. | Fort Lewis College Admissions Standards
S.B. 194
Changes status of college admissions standards from "moderately selective" to "selective."
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fs...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Signed by Governor 05/2005 |
Postsec. |
H.B. 1341
Subject to the approval of the office of state planning and budgeting ("OSPB") or the Colorado commission on higher education ("commission")...
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Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
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 i...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 | High School Dropout Parental Notice
S.B. 164
Requires districts to provide written notification to parents of a high school dropout who is not subject to compulsory education laws. Stat...
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Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 | Teaching of History, Culture and Civil Government
S.B. 200 (Section 14)
Requires the department to help districts develop and promote elementary- and secondary-level programs addressing the state model content st...
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Finance--Federal |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 | Federal Funding to the State Board
S.B. 200 (Section 18)
Requires the state board to annually report to the legislature the total amount of federal funds received by the state board in the prior fi...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 | School Finance
S.B. 200 (Section 1-4)
Increases the statewide base funding amount for at-risk students. Amends definition of "at-risk pupils" to include the number of district st...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 | Full-Day Kindergarten for Schools Rated "Unsatisfactory"
S.B. 200 (Section 5-7)
Revises certain language related to funding full-day kindergarten for students in a school receiving an "unsatisfactory" rating in the state...
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Health |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 | Asthma And Anaphylaxis Treatment Plans
S.B. 156
Authorizes a student with asthma, severe allergies or another related, life-threatening condition to possess and self-administer prescribed ...
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Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 | Children Nutrition Improvement Policies
S.B. 81
Encourages district boards to adopt policies (by July 1, 2006) ensuring that every student has access to healthful food choices in appropria...
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Leadership |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 | Educator Licensure
H.B. 1026
Authorizes the state board to establish procedures for the filing and investigation of complaints alleging conduct that, if true, may establ...
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No Child Left Behind |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 | Funding Changes For School Districts
S.B. 50
Effective July 1, 2005, allows a local board to adopt a resolution stating its intent to decline one or more federal funding sources of the ...
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P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 | Full-Day Kindergarten
S.B. 200 (Section 15)
Increases from 1,000 to 1,500 the number of children a district may apply to the department for authorization to serve through a full-day ki...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
Postsec. | Achievement Scholarships
S.B. 3
Creates the Colorado Achievement Scholarship Program to promote the state's pre-collegiate curriculum. Requires eligible part-tme and full-t...
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School Safety |
To governor 04/2005 |
P-12 | School District Internet Safety Plan
H.B. 1036
Encourages districts to provide age-appropriate curriculum that covers safe use of the Internet. Concerns inclusion of an internet safety pl...
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Special Education |
Vetoed 04/2005 |
P-12 | Special Education Tuition
H.B. 1255
Adopts a comprehensive method of allocating the excess costs incurred in educating students with disabilities. Defines "selected special edu...
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P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Kindergarten
S.B. 88
Requires all districts to offer kindergarten.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/24338C60B3B3DBFE87256F56006898F3?op...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Pension Benefits Embezzlement
S.B. 93
Concerns the ability to attach public pension benefits if the pension participant engages in misconduct in connection with public property; ...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Rule Adoption 01/2005 |
P-12 | Administration of the State Charter School Institute
1 CCR 302-1
Establishes rules regarding the State Charter School Institute. Includes procedures for acceptance of applications, evaluating and authorizi...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Emergency Rule Adoption 12/2004 |
P-12 | Administration of the State Charter School Institute
1 CCR 302-1
Establishes emergency rules regarding administration of the State Charter School Institute....
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Rule Adoption 12/2004 |
Postsec. | Student Loan Program; College Access Network
8 CCR 1504-3
Repeals and incorporates rules regarding the student loan program. Changes the name from the Colorado Student Loan Program to the Colorado C...
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Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Rule Adoption 11/2004 |
P-12 | Online Programs
1 CCR 301-56
Clarifies rules regarding the administration of Colorado Online Programs. http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/brdbook/2004/NOVEMBER%202004/V...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 |
P-12 | Accountability for Alternative Campuses
1 CCR 301-57
Clarifies rules regarding the administration of accountability for alternative campuses and processes for being designated an alternative ca...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed by Governor 06/2004 |
P-12 | Measuring Student Academic Growth
H.B. 1433
Requires the Department of Education, no later than 15 days after the effective date of the act, to choose a public or private entity to dev...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed by Governor 06/2004 |
P-12 | Charter Schools
H.B. 1141
Concerns charter schools and legislative intent to provide multiple avenues for obtaining charter school authorization, including the creati...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 | State Charter School Institute
H.B. 1362
Concerns the authorization of institute charter schools, particularly schools for at-risk students, by the state Charter School Institute; d...
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Curriculum |
Signed by Governor 06/2004 |
P-12 | Financial Education Curriculum
H.B. 1360
Encourages each school district and charter school to adopt a financial literacy curriculum and to make successful completion of the program...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 | School District Pilot Efficiency Reviews
S.B. 144
Concerns reviews of school districts, and, in connection therewith, requiring pilot efficiency reviews of a limited number of school distric...
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Finance--Facilities |
Partial veto 06/2004 |
P-12 | Capital Construction
H.B. 1464
Allows the state department of education to add employees to assist with school capital construction. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/...
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High School |
Vetoed 06/2004 |
P-12 | Colorado High School Commission
H.B. 1283
Creates a High School Commission to assess the quality of education provided in the state's public high schools and to make recommendations ...
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P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 | Childhood School Readiness
H.B. 1277
Changes the name of the Child Care Commission to the Early Childhood and School Readiness Commission; modifying the responsibilities of the ...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Enterprise Institutions
S.B. 252
Specifies that the governing board of a state institution of higher or group of institutions that are designated as an enterprise may pledge...
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School Safety |
Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 06/2004 |
P-12 | Safe Routes To School
H.B. 1309
Concerns the creation of A Safe Routes to School Program; directs the Department of Transportation to distribute federal funds to local gove...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 | School Finance; Enrollment Calculations; Charter School Contracts
H.B. 1397
Concerns the financing of public schools; relates to calculations of pupil enrollment; relates to charter school contracts. http://www.leg.s...
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Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 | Colorado History Day
H.B. 1202
Promotes "Colorado History Day" (NHD), a year-long academic enrichment program that engages students in grades six to twelve in the process ...
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Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 | Education and Human Sexuality
H.B. 1375
Concerns limitations on education regarding manifestations of human sexuality. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/6B2...
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Leadership |
Signed by Governor 05/2004 |
P-12 | Educator Licensure
H.B. 1104
Concerns educator licensure. Provides requirements for authorization of adjunct instructor, special services intern, emergency applicant, te...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Postsec. | Postsecondary Education Fixed Tuition And Fees
H.B. 1207
Establishes the fixed tuition and fee rate program. Beginning with the 2005-06 school year, state institutions designated as an enterprise i...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | College Opportunity Fund Program
S.B. 189
Establishes the College Opportunity Fund Program; requires each state and private institution of higher education which does not receive loa...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | In-State Tuition for Military Dependents
H.B. 1006
Concerns the classification of a dependent of a member of the armed forces for purposes of determining tuition at public institutions of hig...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Tuition Assistance
H.B. 1347
Concerns tuition assistance to members of the Colorado National Guard; allocates funds for tuition assistance. http://www.leg.state.co.us/cl...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Vocational Schools Transfers
H.B. 1361
Directs the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education to adopt policies to ensure the transfer of credits from area voca...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Restructuring of Community Colleges
H.B. 1086
Enacts recommendations of governor's task force on the community college system; reduction of the system office's administrative costs by 35...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Parental Questions On School Reports
H.B. 1217
Concerns changes to the school accountability report to include a page that specifies certain information a parent may request from a school...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Alternative Schools Under Accountability System
S.B. 83
The performance of alternative schools that qualify is to be measured under a different set of accountability indicators. Schools that serve...
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Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Nonlicensed Employee Data
S.B. 62
Requires a school district to submit the name, date of birth, and social security number from the fingerprint form for each nonlicensed empl...
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Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | American Sign Language
H.B. 1037
Concerns the treatment of American Sign Language as a foreign language in education that counts toward graduation requirements. http://www.s...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | School Directors Elected By District
H.B. 1230
Concerns the election of school district directors from director districts. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/55a622...
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Health |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Meningitis Information
S.B. 57
Concerns the provision of information on meningococcal disease to students at postsecondary institutions. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics20...
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Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | School Vending Machines and Nutrition
S.B. 103
Concerns policies to increase the inclusion of nutritious choices in school vending machines; directs each school district to adopt a policy...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Personnel System Exemptions
S.B. 7
Modifies the criteria for determining which administrative employees of higher educational institutions are exempt from the state personnel ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Financial Assistance Programs
H.B. 1350
Concerns state programs to assist higher education students in paying tuition. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/866...
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State Policymaking |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Reporting to Legislative Education Committee
H.B. 1380
Concerns reports to the Education Committees of the General Assembly pursuant to the Information Coordination Act; repeals the reporting req...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | No Student Statements Without Parent
H.B. 1137
Concerns the creation of a public school student's right to have a guardian present when the student signs a statement that could result in ...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Teacher Criminal Prosecution
S.B. 152
Prohibits the payment of a teacher following the initiation of a prosecution for an offense that would result in the loss of licensure. http...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Teacher Loans
H.B. 1039
Concerns the expansion of the teacher loan forgiveness pilot program to include a teacher who is hired to teach in a qualified position afte...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | State School Accountability Reports
H.B. 1124
Changes the state school accountability report to add information on adequate yearly progress; adds information on achievement levels for va...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Vocational Education
H.B. 1029
Concerns authorization for counties to increase participation in vocational education by Colorado works participants to meet federal require...
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Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | Recitation of Pledge of Allegiance
H.B. 1002
Amends the Pledge of Allegiance statute to make the statute constitutional as required by the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in the 1992 ...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
Community College | Training Program Transfer of Moneys
H.B. 1166
Concerns an increase in the amount of moneys transferred by the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education from the Color...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
Postsec. | Auxiliary Facilities for Higher Education
H.B. 1005
Concerns the enterprise status of auxiliary facilities of state institutions of higher education. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl....
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | School Construction and Renovation Funds
H.B. 1055
Concerns the modification of the process used to make matching grants for school district capital construction from the school construction ...
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Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | Education Administrators
H.B. 1092
Teachers who have served in an administrative capacities may be assigned to another available position for which they are qualified at the s...
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School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | Activities At School
H.B. 1363
Permits students to participate in activities in another district if activity is not offered within a student's school district. http://www....
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Accountability--School Improvement |
Emergency Rule Adoption 12/2003 |
P-12 | School Improvement Plan
1 CCR 301-52
Establishes rules regarding the administration of the School Improvement Plan. COLORADO REG 7620 (SN)
http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/d...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
Emergency Rule Adoption 08/2003 |
P-12 | Cyberschools
1 CCR 301-56
Establishes emergency rules regarding the administration of cyberschools. http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/download/Online%20Emergency%20...
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Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Achievement Gap
S.B. 254
Concerns closing achievement gap; creates a program to assist schools that have received an unsatisfactory rating or have a significant achi...
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Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Criminal Conviction and Background Checks
H.B. 1114
Requires courts to report felony convictions to the Department of Education when the convicted person is a current or former employee of a s...
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Civic Education |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | The Pledge of Allegiance Daily Recitation
H.B. 1368
Creates a requirement for the daily recitation of the pledge of allegiance in each public school in the state. http://www.leg.state.co.us/20...
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Civic Education |
Passed 06/2003 |
Postsec. | Civic Education
H.J.R. 1027
Concerns the importance of history and civic education at the college level. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/DC1C8...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Loans to School Districts
H.B. 1274
Concerns modifications to the program under which the State Treasurer makes loans to school districts with general fund cash deficits; autho...
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Health |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Health Care Treatment for Students
H.B. 1172
Requires school boards to adopt a policy prohibiting school personnel from recommending or requiring the use of a psychotropic drug by any s...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Institutions' Role and Mission
S.B. 304
Concerns provisions governing the operations of state-supported institutions of higher education, including the institutions' missions, admi...
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Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
Postsec. | Selective Service Registration
S.B. 255
Concerns provisions relating to selective service registration as a prerequisite for enrolling at a state supported institution of higher ed...
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Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Opportunity Contract Pilot Program Eligibility
H.B. 1369
Modifies the eligibility criteria for children in grades 1 through 3 for purposes of the "Colorado Opportunity Contract Pilot Program" (HB03...
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Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Literacy
H.B. 1173
Specifies that the general assembly intends for the Department of Education, for purposes of Colorado family literacy programs, to actively ...
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Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | School District Retirement System
S.B. 250
Authorizes a school district retirement system to enter into an agreement to merge into another public employee retirement system including ...
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Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 | Retirement and Nonlicensed School Employees
H.B. 1327
Concerns an extension of the time in which retirees of the public employees retirement association may be employed to work as nonlicensed em...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
P-12 | School Accountability Reports
S.B. 275
Eliminates the requirement that the department of education print and provide to each public school a specified number of school accountabil...
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Assessment |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
P-12 | Reading and Mathematics Assessments
S.B. 292
Suspends the administration of the reading and mathematics assessments for students in the ninth grade and the curriculum based, achievement...
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Assessment |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
P-12 | Writing Assessments
S.B. 309
Concerns a suspension of the administration of statewide assessments in writing. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/C...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 | Juvenile Adjudication Proceedings
H.B. 1025
Allows the court to order a student with an individual education program to comply with this program as a condition of probation. The court ...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 | Charter School Capital Construction Financing
H.B. 1021
Concerns the financing of capital construction for qualified charter schools that have bonds issued on their behalf by the Colorado Educatio...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed by Governor 05/2003 |
P-12 | Tax Exempt Bond Financing
H.B. 1363
Repeals the statutory provisions that prohibit a religious entity from receiving tax-exempt bond financing through the Colorado educational ...
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P-3 |
Partial veto 05/2003 |
P-12 | Financing of Public Schools
S.B. 248
Concerns the procedures for the funding of public schools, including adjustments to the district size factor, minimum per pupil funding, at-...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
Postsec. | Education Enterprise For Purpose Designation
S.B. 264
Authorizes an institution of higher education, a group of institutions of higher education, or a school or college within an institution of ...
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School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 | Return of Library Resources
H.B. 1333
Permits a board of education of a school district to require the replacement or return of library resources by withholding a student's diplo...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 | School for the Deaf and Blind
S.B. 53
Concerns operations of the Colorado school for the deaf and blind; provides for a school governing board consisting of seven members appoint...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 | Department of Education Accountability Reports
S.B. 117
Concerns the schedule by which the Department of Education releases school accountability reports; deletes the requirement that the departme...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 | School Attendance Law
H.B. 1226
Concerns a juvenile's right to counsel at proceedings under the School Attendance Law of 1963. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.ns...
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Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 | Opportunity Contract Pilot Program
H.B. 1160
Establishes the "Colorado Opportunity Contract Pilot Program" beginning in the '04-'05 school year, which requires school districts with eig...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 | School District's Bond Redemption Fund
S.B. 237
Requires a school district board of education to select a third party trustee to administer the school district's bond redemption fund, unle...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 | School District Accounting Practices
S.B. 149
Requires the board of education of a school district to use the modified accrual basis as its basis of budgetary accounting and to use gener...
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Finance--Facilities |
Adopted 04/2003 |
P-12 | Schools
6 CCR 1010-6
Establishes emergency rules concerning schools, specifying the following: general provisions; grounds; sanitary facilities and controls; bui...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 | Sale of School District Property
S.B. 158
Concerns the sale of property of a school district related to fiscal shortfall. http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/olls/sl2003a/sl_166.h...
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High School |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 | Government course graduation requirement
S.B. 36
Makes satisfactory completion of a course on federal and state civil government a requirement of high school graduation in the state; direct...
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No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 | Student Transfers
H.B. 1087
Concerns requirements related to student transfers; districts should consider adopting policies that give transfer enrollment priority to a ...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
Postsec. | Identity Number for Students
H.B. 1175
Requires each Colorado institution of postsecondary education to assign a unique identifying number to each student enrolled at the institut...
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Postsecondary |
Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2003 |
Postsec. | Voluntary Separation Incentive Plans
1 CCR 101-1, Rule 2-8
Establishes temporary rules concerning miscellaneous compensation and other benefits, specifying authorizing institutions and agencies of th...
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Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
Postsec. | International Baccalaureate Diploma Students
H.B. 1108
Concerns a standard policy for accepting international baccalaureate diploma students in Colorado institutions of higher education. http://w...
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State Policymaking--Politics |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 | Elections and Political Parties
H.B. 1142
Eliminates the distinction between major and minor political parties with respect to declaring political party affiliation for various elect...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Became law without governor's signature 04/2003 |
P-12 | School Transfer Rules
H.B. 1083
Repeals of the requirement that transfer rules shall not prohibit a student's participation in extracurricular activities if the student enr...
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Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 | Immunity for Educators
H.B. 1127
Concerns allegations against education providers; provides immunity from suit for an educational entity and its employees for any actions ta...
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Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Certification of Education Paraprofessionals
H.B. 1159
Concerns certification of education paraprofessionals; relates to the approval of teacher paraprofessional preparation programs at instituti...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Unsatisfactory Schools Classification; Charter School Proposals
S.B. 137
Concerns modifications for notifying schools districts of unsatisfactory schools. Concerns deadlines for charter school proposals. http://ww...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Teen Pregnancy And Dropout Prevention
H.B. 1028
Concerns the continuation of the statewide pilot program for teen pregnancy and dropout prevention. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbi...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Interest Free Loan Program
H.B. 1032
Concerns a school district education board's oversight of a school district's participation in the interest-free loan program.http://www.leg...
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Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | General Fund Appropriation
S.B. 195
Concerns the amount of general fund appropriation for the states share of districts total program funding required to be made to be in compl...
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High School |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | High School Diplomas Awarded to Veterans
S.B. 100
Permits a board of education of a school district to award a diploma to an honorably discharged veterans. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/p...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. | Annual Allowable Cash Funds
S.B. 189
Concerns the annual allowable cash funds for state supported institutions of higher education; adds funds received from student financial ai...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. | Colorado Student Obligation Bond
H.B. 1048
Concerns authorization to move moneys from the Colorado Student Obligation Bond Authority Fund to funds established for the future payment o...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. | Colorado Higher Education System
H.B. 1093
Concerns the governance and funding of State colleges within the Colorado higher education system....
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Sex Offender Information
S.B. 72
Requires each public school to provide the parents of students a statement identifying where and the procedures to obtain information concer...
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Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Technology Learning Grant
S.B. 198
Concerns the elimination of the technology learning grant and revolving loan program.http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/pubhome.nsf...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Rejected by voters 11/2002 |
P-12 | English Language Education
Amendment 31
The proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution: requires that all public school students be taught in English unless they are exempted ...
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Student Supports--Remediation |
Active 09/2002 |
P-12 | Supplemental Service Providers
N/A
State Approved Supplemental Service Providers -- http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeunified/download/SS-AllProviders_ProgDescripts.pdf
Link to ma...
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Postsecondary |
Enacted 07/2002 |
Postsec. | Renaming University of Southern Colorado to Colorado State University - Pueblo and modifying role and mission
HB 1324
Bill changes name from the University of Southern Colorado to Colorado State University - Pueblo. The role and mission will change to creat...
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Postsecondary |
Enacted 07/2002 |
Postsec. | Access requirements for proposals to honor individuals submitted to institutions of higher education
SB 144
Amends current law to make available records of institution governing board meetings regarding nominations for awarding honorary degrees, me...
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Postsecondary |
Enacted 07/2002 |
Postsec. | Concerning cooperation between higher education institutions and federal anti-terrorism efforts
SB 113
Act requires higher education institutions to adopt guidelines to govern how they will provide information to the FBI, CIA, INS and Office o...
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Postsecondary |
Enrolled 07/2002 |
Postsec. | Salary increases for select Department of Higher Education employees
HB 1477
A bill concerning the clarification of the cost-neutral requirements in the performance plan for periodic salary increases for certain emplo...
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Postsecondary |
Enacted 07/2002 |
Postsec. | Repeals and reenacts legislation regarding Fort Lewis College
HB 1419
Changes existing legislation regarding Fort Lewis College to include guidelines for the Board of Trustees and the types of programs offered....
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Enacted 07/2002 |
Postsec. | Concerning the operation of higher education student financial aid enterprises
HB 1452
Amends existing law concerning the operation of higher education student financial aid enterprises to provide guidelines for hiring personne...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Enacted 07/2002 |
Postsec. | Regarding liquor industry providing financial assistance to an institute of higher education that holds a liquor license
SB 4
An act to allow the liquor industry to provide financial assistance to institutions of higher education regardless of whether they hold a li...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Enacted 07/2002 |
Postsec. | Supplemental appropriation for Higher Education
HB 1426
Provides supplemental appropriation for higher education....
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Postsecondary Finance |
Enacted 07/2002 |
Postsec. | Appropriations for Higher Education
SB 52
An act concerning the repeal of provisions allocating certain moneys appropriated to the Department of Local Affairs from the waste tire rec...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Enacted 07/2002 |
Postsec. | Appropriations for Department of Higher Education
HB 1371
Provides for supplemental appropriations to the Department of Higher Education....
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Testing and Reporting of K-12 ESL Students
S.B. 109
Requires department to develop single test for districts to identify students eligible to participate in K-12 English language proficiency p...
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Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Criminal Background Checks
H.B. 1459
Expands inquiry process at nonpublic schools from applicants to include employees of such schools. If nonpublic school employee is subject o...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Major Finance Bill - Charter Facilities Component
H.B. 1349
Creates the "Charter School Facilities Financing Act" to increase charter school access to the school district capital funding and planning ...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Resolution of Charter School Contract Disputes
S.B. 124
Concerns the resolution of disputes between charter schools and chartering school districts and concerning governing policy provisions; requ...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Business Incentive Agreements
H.B. 1399
Increases from 4 to 10 years the maximal time period for which a district board, county or municipality may establish business incentive agr...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Finance Bill - Funding Component
H.B. 1349
Amends the Public School Finance Act of 1994 to comply with section 17 of article IX of the state constitution, requires the general assembl...
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Leadership |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Teacher in Residence Programs
H.B. 1300
Permits individual to be employed as a resident teacher (emergency certified) in special education for three years. Beginning in the 2003-04...
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Leadership |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Performance-Based Principal Preparation Programs
S.B. 152
Requires the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to approve a plan by July 1, 2003 for establishing the program requirements for princip...
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No Child Left Behind |
Active 06/2002 |
P-12 | 2002 Consolidated Plan
N/A
2002 Consolidated Plan (dated 6/10/02): (http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeunified/fedconsapp.htm)...
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Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | Major Bill -- Online Funding Component
H.B. 1349
Defines "on-line pupil enrollment" as the number of pupils enrolled, on October 1 in a budget year, in an on-line program, minus any such pu...
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P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 | School-Readiness Child Care Subsidation Program
H.B. 1297
Creates the School-Readiness Child Care Subsidization Program on and after January 1, 2003, which program offers three-year school-readiness...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
Postsec. | Anti-Terrorism Measures
S.B. 113
Requires administrators at state-supported institutions of higher education to cooperate with and implement all anti-terrorism measures requ...
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School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
Active 06/2002 |
P-12 | Safe Schools
N/A
As a result of effective prevention and intervention methods, no school will be determined to be persistently dangerous. The performance tar...
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Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 | Alternative Education Campuses
S.B. 94
Requires state board to establish criteria and application process for a school to be designated an alternative education campus. Mandates t...
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Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 | Summer School Grant Program and Teacher Pay Incentive Program
H.B. 1304
Expands the Summer School Grant Program to provide funding to school districts for the operation of intensive literacy and reading comprehen...
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Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 | Family Literacy Education Grant Program
H.B. 1303
Establishes a Family Literacy Education Grant Program within the Department of Education; permits local education providers to apply for gra...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 | Diagnosing Student Needs Through Assessments
S.B. 59
Requires the department to ensure that assessments administered through the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) are designed to gener...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 | Potential Testing in Mathematics and Science
H.B. 1306
Provides that if sufficient funding from the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is obtained, directs the Department of Education to ad...
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Governance |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 | Filling Vacancies on the State Board
H.B. 1245
Repeals the process for filling a vacancy on the state board; specifies that any vacancy occurring on the state board other than a vacancy o...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 | Reporting by School Employees of Suspected Sex Offenses Against Children
S.B. 187
Includes "unlawful sexual behavior" under definitions of "abuse" and "child abuse or neglect." Requires public and private school officials ...
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Special Education |
Vetoed 05/2002 |
P-12 | Hearing Aids for Children
H.B. 1220
Finds that providing hearing aids to hearing impaired children will improve the language development of such children; declares that providi...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 | Eligible Facilities Education Task Force
H.B. 1246
Establishes the Eligible Facilities Education Task Force; requires the task force to examine the placement of children in eligible families ...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Violation of Court Order for Truancy
H.B. 1079
Allows the court to impose incarceration to juvenile detention facility for violating a valid court order under the "School Attendance Law o...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Charter School Application Deadlines
S.B. 51
Allows local boards to determine deadlines for submission of charter school application; deadline must fall between August 15 and October 1....
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Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Display of U.S. Flag in Public Schools
S.B. 38
Requires all public and charter schools to permanently and prominently display the U.S. flag in every academic classroom while class is in s...
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Federal |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Homeless Education
H.B. 1181
Defines residency as it relates to homeless child. Authorizes school district to establish residency for purposes of school attendance. Auth...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Streamlining of Grant Application Process
H.B. 1053
Directs the Department of Education to standardize the applications for statutorily created education grant programs and utilize existing da...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. | Income Tax Credit for Gifts to Colorado Institute of Technology
H.B. 1059
Concerns modifications to the state income tax credit available to Colorado taxpayers who make monetary contributions to the Colorado Instit...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Post-Retirement Teaching Incentive Plan
S.B. 145
Allows local board that obtains insufficient number of applicants for teaching positions to adopt a resolution declaring a critical shortage...
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Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | New rankings for school report cards
S.B. 98
Directs new rankings for school report cards; adds new categories of information to be included in school report cards; requires low perform...
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Civic Education |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Encourages The Development of Character Education
H.B. 1292
Encourages and promotes the development and establishment of character education programs through cooperation between parents and school dis...
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Curriculum--Mathematics |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | Creates the Science and Technology Education Center Grant Program
H.B. 1365
Creates the Science and Technology Education Center Grant Program to provide start-up and operating money for science and technology educati...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 | State Tax Calculations
H.B. 1262
Requires office of State Planning and Budgeting to calculate amount of State income tax revenues that must be diverted to State Education Fu...
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P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Early Childhood Professional Loan Repayment Program
H.B. 1293
Requires the State Commission on Higher Education to establish and maintain an Early Childhood Professional Loan Repayment Program; makes su...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. | Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
H.B. 1263
Establishes the Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities; establishes a standard degree credit hour requirement; provides for additional ...
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Assessment--Accommodations |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Exempting Schools with a large amount of students who have IEPs
H.B. 1348
Authorizes the State Board of Education by rule to exclude a school from receiving an academic performance grade if more than 95% of the stu...
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Finance |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | School Funding and Textbook Issues
H.B. 1272
Increases state funding to schools for the 2001-02 school year; requires school districts to adopt a plan for use of such monies; specifies ...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Technology Education Grant Program
H.B. 1163
Creates the Information Technology Education Grant Program; provides money to school districts and charter schools to use in integrating inf...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Bond Proceeds that Go to Charter Schools
S.B. 237
Concerns the capital construction needs of charter schools; provides that a portion of the proceeds from approved school district bond measu...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | State Education Fund
S.B. 204
Creates the state education fund and specifies how the amount of revenues to be deposited in the fund is to be derived; defines the terms "c...
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Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Changes in Education Budgeting
S.B. 82
Creates the State Education Fund and 2 accounts within the fund; provides for appropriation of moneys in the fund to comply with the mandato...
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P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Funding Preshool Programs
S.B. 123
Concerns the required expenditure of a portion of a school district's per pupil operating revenue for the school district's preschool progra...
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P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Full Day Kindergarten Program
S.B. 91
Authorizes a pilot program for school districts to offer full day kindergarten education programs at certain schools with low academic perfo...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Bullying prevention and education
S.B. 80
Requires school districts to include a specific policy concerning bullying prevention and education; requires school districts to submit ann...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 | Adjustments in the School Aid formula
S.B. 129
This bill makes adjustments in the school aid formula including the addition of funding for pre-school programs. The full text of the bill ...
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Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 | Mandated increase in State funding for public schools
H.B. 1232
Concerns plans to use the constitutionally mandated increase in State funding for public schools to be used for specific and accountable pur...
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Student Achievement |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 | Closing the Achievement Gap
H.J.R. 1014
Identifies closing the learning gap as an important goal of Colorado's education reform program and urges the state board of education and t...
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Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Attendance Rates Reported
H.B. 1222
Concerns the replacement of information on student dropout rates with information on school attendance rates in reports for elementary schoo...
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Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | CSAP Test Results
H.B. 1196
Allows local school districts to review the writing portion of a student's Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) test in order to help ...
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Finance--Resource Efficiency |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | State Audits of Educational Institutions
H.B. 1009
Directs the State Auditor or the auditor's designee to conduct records management audits in all departments, institutions, and agencies of s...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | School Board Evaluation of a Superintendent
H.B. 1146
Concerns the performance evaluation of the superintendent of a school district by a school district board of education....
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P-3 |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Dept. of Ed. oversight for state preschool program
H.B. 1041
Concerns the duties of the Colorado Department of Education in providing oversight of the Colorado Preschool Program....
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P-3 |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Eligibility in the preschool program
S.B. 120
Provides certain significant family risk factors of a child's home environment for eligibility in the preschool program....
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P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Alternative Preschool Programs
S.B. 49
Requires school district preschool program councils to periodically assess whether alternative community providers are available and to ensu...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
Postsec. | Changes in Rules for the Board of the Higher Ed. Commission
H.B. 1035
Provides for an increase in the makeup and the amount of members of the Higher Education Commission; lowers period of time a member of the c...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Reporting Students who Committed Weapons Offenses
H.B. 1168
Requires the court to impose a mandatory minimum period of detention for certain felony misdemeanor weapons offenses committed by a juvenile...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | School Bus Safety
S.B. 3
Changes the definition of commercial vehicle to exclude school buses regulated by the Department of Education, from the regulation by the De...
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Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Reporting Teachers Who Teach outside their subject area.
H.B. 1215
Concerns a limitation on information in school reports concerning the percentage of teachers teaching in a subject in which the teacher rece...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Teacher Retirement
H.B. 1186
Concerns the maintenance of public employee retirement benefits for retirees who are hired by a school district during a critical shortage o...
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Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Retaining Copies of the Collective Bargaining Agreements
S.B. 76
Requires school district boards of education to provide copies of all collective bargaining agreements to the State Board of Education the l...
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Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Non-Enrolled Participation
H.B. 1129
Increases the fee a school of participation may charge a non-enrolled student for participation in an extracurricular activity; allows the s...
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Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
Unofficially approved by Voters 11/2000 |
P-12 | Increasing State Education Funding
V. 10
AMENDMENT 23 Amends the State Constitution; concerns increased funding for preschool through 12th-grade public education; requires the state...
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Finance--Lotteries |
Approved by Voters 11/2000 |
P-12 | Expanding the State Lottery
V. 1
REFERENDUM E (SB 84, 2000) Asks whether the Colorado Lottery Commission should be authorized to enter into multistate agreements allowing Co...
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Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Rejected by Voters 11/2000 |
P-12 | State Science and Math Grants
V. 6
REFERENDUM F (SB 4, 2000) Asks whether the State of Colorado shall be permitted to annually retain up to a specified amount of the state rev...
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Finance--District |
On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000 |
P-12 | Trying to Over-ride Spending Restrictions
V. 6; (NEW BILL)
(Referendum F SB 4); Asks the question shall the state of Colorado be permitted to annually retain up to a specified amount of the state rev...
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Accountability--Accreditation |
Vetoed 06/2000 |
P-12 | State Board Accreditation of Schools
H.B. 1219
Concerns accreditation by the State Board of Education; provides that the Board of Education will appraise and accredit school districts in ...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Defining "School" for Property Tax Exemptions
H.B. 1268
Concerns the assessment of property for tax purposes; specifies that the definition of "school" for property tax purposes includes a license...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. | Basic Skills Courses and Proficiency for Postsecondary Students
H.B. 1464
Requires the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to adopt and the governing boards of state institutions of higher education to implemen...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. | Tuition Assistance for Children of Public Safety Employees
S.B. 117
Concerns tuition assistance for the dependant children of certain persons; authorizes tuition assistance for the dependents of deceased or p...
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Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Read-to-Achieve Program
H.B. 1136
Concerns the creation of the Learning Improvement Grant Program for public schools in the Department of Education. The program, also referre...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Comprehensive School Safety Plan
S.B. 133
Concerns safe schools; requires each school district to adopt and implement a safe schools plan that includes a conduct and discipline code,...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Safe Schools
S.B. 133
Centers on a conduct and discipline code with identified violations to result in actions taken. Forms the basis for annual reporting to loc...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Maintenance of Retirement Benefits During Teacher Shortages
H.B. 1222
Concerns maintenance of public employee retirement benefits for retirees who are hired as nonlicensed employees by a school district during ...
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Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 | Grant Program for Teacher Professional Development
H.B. 1173
Creates a grant program to assist public schools in implementing teacher development activitie that are school-based, and focus on developin...
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Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. | Creation of Advanced Technology Fund for Postsecondary Education
H.B. 1430
Concerns the creation of the Advanced Technology Fund for use by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education....
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 | Charter School Changes, Capital Reserve Usage
H.B. 1124
Concerns public schools; authorizes charter schools to impose fees for excess transportation costs and to engage in the building, planning a...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 | Capital Construction Projects
S.B. 181
Concerns the funding of Public School Capital Construction Projects; addresses two methods of providing funding for the state's portion of m...
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Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 | Administrative Licensure
S.B. 160
Clarifies that licensure is not a condition of employment for administrators. The board of a school district may enter into an employment co...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
Postsec. | Creation of Colorado High Technology Scholarships
H.B. 1355
Concerns high technology scholarships; establishes the Colorado High Technology Scholarship Program; creates a credit against state income t...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
Postsec. | Creation of Colorado Student Obligation Bond Authority
S.B. 164
Concerns the Colorado Student Obligation Bond Authority, which shall be a division within the Department of Higher Education and which autho...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 | State Funding for Special Education
S.B. 49
Provides that state funding of special education programs for children with disabilities be increased so that, by the 2005-06 fiscal year, t...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 | Release of Student Education Records
H.B. 1202
A school district shall not release the education records of a student to any person, agency or organization without the prior written conse...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 | Competencies for Provisional Teaching Licenses
S.B. 195
Requires the State Board of Education to identify by rule those professional competencies required of applicants for provisional teaching li...
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Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
Postsec. | Tax Credits for Contributions
H.B. 1052
Concerns an income tax credit for monetary contributions to the Colorado Institute for Telecommunication Education....
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
Postsec. | Authority to Pursue Nonprofit Incorporation
S.B. 61
Concerns the authority of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to pursue nonprofit incorporation for the purpose of developing discov...
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Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Read-to-Achieve
S.B. 124
Concerns literacy in early elementary grades; establishes and appropriates funds for a Read-To-Achieve Program. Under this program, any pub...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Student Records
H.B. 1119
Concerning the exchange of information related to children; authorizes an exchange of information between schools and law enforcement agenci...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Reciprocity
H.B. 1151
Permits state board to grant professional licenses to teachers, special services providers, principals and administrators if the applicant i...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Omnibus Bill - Accountability
S.B. 186
Directs the Department of Education to evaluate the academic performance and safety environment of every public school within the state; spe...
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Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec. | Technology in Higher Education
S.B. 183
Concerns the role of higher education in the development of technology; encourages higher education institutions and systems to participate ...
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