S.B. 05-19 Educational data advisory committee - data reporting requirements - review. Directs the state board of education ("state board") to form the educational data advisory committee ("committee") consisting of representatives from 5 volunteer school districts, 2 volunteer boards of cooperative services, and a volunteer charter school. Directs the committee to work with the department of education to review school district data reporting requirements.
Directs the committee, at the request of a school district, a board of cooperative services, or the state charter school institute, or on its own initiative, to review the statutory and regulatory data reporting requirements to determine whether the benefits derived from the reports are outweighed by the administrative cost of the reports. Specifies the procedure for submitting a data reporting review request.
Allows the committee to recommend to the state board the repeal or amendment of statutory and regulatory data reporting requirements, and directs the state board to forward to the general assembly any recommendations for statutory changes. Requires the committee to review each data reporting request that is not required by statute or by rule and notify school districts, boards of cooperative services, and the state charter school institute whether compliance with the request is mandatory or voluntary.
APPROVED by Governor June 2, 2005
EFFECTIVE June 2, 2005
S.B. 05-32 Preschool program - preschool-age children with disabilities - enrollment count date. For budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2005, allows a school district to determine the enrollment of 3- and 4-year-old children with disabilities who are receiving education services and the enrollment of children in the Colorado preschool program on November 1, rather than October 1. For purposes of the pilot program for community consolidated child care services, prohibits the department of human services from waiving the date for determining preschool enrollment.
APPROVED by Governor June 2, 2005
EFFECTIVE June 2, 2005
S.B. 05-50 School districts - authority to decline federal funding. Permits a school district to decline federal funding and thereby be exempt from certain requirements of the federal "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" ("federal act"). Specifies that declining funding under the federal act shall not affect a school district's accreditation status. Prohibits the department of education and the state board of education from imposing any sanctions on a school district that declines funding under the federal act.
APPROVED by Governor May 7, 2005
EFFECTIVE May 7, 2005
S.B. 05-81 School districts - nutritional policies. Encourages each school district board of education ("district board") to adopt a policy insuring a child's access to:
● Healthful food and beverages on the school premises;
● Nutritional information;
● Daily physical activity; and
● Instruction regarding proper nutrition and health.
Encourages each district board to adopt rules regarding competitive food availability and also to adopt a local wellness policy as provided for in the federal "Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004". Allows for the sale or distribution of any food or beverage item through periodic fundraisers if the item is for sale after school hours.
APPROVED by Governor April 14, 2005
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2005
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning
the effective date, see page vi of this digest.
S.B. 05-88 Kindergarten - mandatory. Requires each school district to provide a kindergarten program for all children who are 5 years of age.
APPROVED by Governor March 25, 2005
EFFECTIVE March 25, 2005
S.B. 05-91 Accreditation indicators - statewide formulas - disaggregation - audits. For purposes of accreditation, requires the state board of education ("state board") to promulgate rules establishing statewide formulas for calculating:
● Continuing education rates;
● Dropout rates;
● Graduation rates;
● Mobility rates; and
● Promotion rates.
Specifies factors that the state board is to take into consideration in developing the formulas, and directs the state board to solicit input both before and after the development of the formulas.
Adds to the accreditation indicators continuing education rates and mobility rates. Includes students enrolled in international baccalaureate programs and taking higher education courses in the accreditation indicator pertaining to students taking advanced placement courses.
Requires school districts and the state charter school institute to report disaggregated data based on specific criteria. Permits the state board to audit accreditation data.
APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2005
EFFECTIVE June 6, 2005
S.B. 05-139 Supplemental on-line education courses - contract - report - appropriation. Directs the department of education ("department") to contract with an entity to provide supplemental on-line education courses for purchase by school districts, charter schools, boards of cooperative services, and the state charter school institute. Specifies the criteria the department shall apply in selecting the contract entity. Specifies the minimum contents of the contract and the services the contract entity shall provide. Requires the contract entity annually to submit to the department and to the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives a report concerning the provision of supplemental on-line education courses. States that the general assembly, for the 2005-06, 2006-07, and 2007-08 budget years, shall annually appropriate at least $500,000 from the state education fund for implementation of the act.
For the 2005-06 fiscal year, appropriates $500,000 from the state education fund to the department for implementation of the act.
VETOED by Governor June 2, 2005
S.B. 05-156 Student asthma or severe allergies - self-administration of prescribed medication - approved treatment plan. Authorizes a student with asthma, severe allergies, or another related, life-threatening condition to possess and self-administer prescribed medications during school, while at school-sponsored activities, or while in transit to or from school or school-sponsored activities, if there is an approved treatment plan. Requires a public school to approve a treatment plan that meets specified conditions. If there is an approved treatment plan, eliminates a school's, school district's, volunteer's, or employee's civil liability except in cases of willful or wanton conduct or disregard of the criteria in the plan. Authorizes the state board of education to promulgate rules covering treatment plans. Authorizes the department of public health and environment to audit school records to determine asthma and severe allergic reaction rates within schools.
APPROVED by Governor April 14, 2005
EFFECTIVE April 14, 2005
S.B. 05-164 School districts - parental notification of high school student dropout status. Requires the board of education of each school district to adopt and implement policies to provide notification to the parent or parents with custody or decision-making responsibility with respect to education or the legal guardian or the legal custodian of a student who drops out of high school. Makes the written notification policy apply only to those students who are not subject to the compulsory education laws.
APPROVED by Governor April 27, 2005
EFFECTIVE April 27, 2005
S.B. 05-170 School districts - health - automated external defibrillators. Encourages each school district to acquire and maintain an automated external defibrillator ("AED") on school grounds. Requires a school district to accept the donation of a working, maintained AED and to accept a monetary or in-kind donation designated for the purpose of acquiring an AED or for inspection, maintenance, or training in the use of an AED. Requires a school district that obtains an AED to meet statutory training, maintenance, inspection, and physician involvement requirements. Limits the liability of a good-faith user or good-samaritan user of an AED kept in a public school.
Requires an entity that acquires an AED to provide training that meets national standards in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and AED use.
APPROVED by Governor April 26, 2005
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2005
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning
the effective date, see page vi of this digest.
S.B. 05-191 Teacher loan forgiveness pilot program - high-poverty elementary schools in rural school districts. Allows a teacher who contracts to teach at least half-time in a high-poverty elementary public school, or in a facility school, in a rural school district to qualify for the teacher loan forgiveness pilot program ("program"). Extends the time by which a first-year or experienced teacher must contract to teach in a qualified position to participate in the program. Adds eligibility criteria for the program. Allows a teacher to continue participating in the program even if the school at which he or she teaches subsequently fails to meet the qualifying criteria as a high-poverty elementary school in a rural school district. Requires a participating teacher at a high-poverty elementary school in a rural school district who subsequently transfers to a non-qualifying school to forfeit the right to participate in the program. Directs the department of education to identify annually the elementary schools that qualify as high-poverty public schools in rural school districts.
Extends the repeal date of the program to July 1, 2013.
APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2005
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2005
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning
the effective date, see page vi of this digest.
S.B. 05-200 School finance - at-risk funding - full-day kindergarten program - vocational education programs provided by BOCES - funding for civics education and teacher credentials - Colorado preschool program slots - rescissions in state aid for business incentive agreements - reporting federal financial assistance - appropriations - adjustments to long bill. Amends the "Public School Finance Act of 1994" in the following respects:
● For the 2005-06 budget year, increases the statewide base per pupil funding to $4,717.62, which is an amount equal to $4,666.29 supplemented by $51.33 to account for a 0.1% inflation increase plus one percentage point.
● For the 2005-06 budget year and future budget years, adds to the definition of "at-risk pupils" district pupils whose dominant language is not English, increases the at-risk factor to 12%, and authorizes the use of state education fund moneys to fund the increases in at-risk funding.
Allows each school district boards of education (local board) to establish and maintain a full-day kindergarten educational program to serve students who attend a school that receives an "unsatisfactory" academic performance rating for the previous school year. Authorizes the local board to contract with a public or private entity to provide the kindergarten educational program and requires any such entity to comply with all applicable state and federal laws.
For increasing enrollment school districts that are allowed an alternative limit on bonded indebtedness, eliminates the requirement that the exception only applies to bonded indebtedness approved at an election held before July 1, 2005.
For the 2006-07 budget year and budget years thereafter, eliminates the requirement that school districts receive the same level of funding from the state education fund that charter schools receive for capital construction.
Allows boards of cooperative services (BOCES) to receive state funds directly from the state board for community colleges and occupational education, rather than from participating school districts, to fund the cost of providing an approved vocational education program.
Requires the department of education to assist school districts in developing and promoting programs for elementary and secondary students that address the state model content standards for civics and promote best practices in civic education. Authorizes the use of state education fund moneys for such programs on the basis that they assist students in meeting state academic standards.
For the 2005-06 budget year and budget years thereafter, increases the number of Colorado preschool program slots from 11,050 to 12,360, and funds the increase from the state education fund. Allows an additional 500 children, for a total of 1,500 children, to be served through a full-day kindergarten component of a school district's preschool program.
For the 2005-06 budget year and budget years thereafter, specifies that, if the general assembly does not appropriate an amount sufficient to fully fund the additional state aid needed for locally negotiated business incentive agreements (BIAs), the state aid for only those districts that have entered into BIAs is to be reduced proportionately.
Requires the state board of education to submit a report to the education committees in the senate and house of representatives by July 1, 2005, and each July 1 thereafter detailing the total amount of federal funds received by the state board in the prior fiscal year.
For the 2005-06 fiscal year, appropriates:
● $83,000 from the state education fund to the national credential fund to be used by the department of education to provide fee assistance to public school teachers seeking national credentials;
● $200,000 from the state education fund to the department of education to be used to assist school districts in developing and promoting programs that address the state model content standards for civics and promote best practices in civic education.
Makes the following adjustments to the FY 2005-06 long bill:
● Increases the appropriation for assistance to public schools, public school finance, state share of districts' total program funding, by $16,419,753 from the state education fund to cover the costs associated with the increase in at-risk funding, the creation of a full-day kindergarten program in unsatisfactory schools, and the increase in the number of Colorado preschool program slots.
● Decreases the general fund appropriation for assistance to public schools, public school finance, for additional state aid related to locally negotiated business incentive agreements by $2,280,029.
● Increases the general fund appropriation for assistance to public schools, categorical programs, district programs required by statute, for special education - children with disabilities, by $2,280,029.
APPROVED by Governor April 29, 2005
EFFECTIVE April 29, 2005
S.B. 05-214 Evaluations of accountability systems - SAR ratings - information on SARs - appropriation. Requires the department of education ("department") to contract for an independent evaluation of the 3 accountability systems, school accountability reports ("SARs"), accreditation, and the federal " No Child Left Behind Act of 2001", to be completed in 2006 and every 3 years thereafter. Specifies factors to be included in the evaluation.
Changes the names of the academic performance ratings to "excellent", "high achieving", "achieving", "priority", and "high priority". Directs the state board of education ("state board") to promulgate rules allowing for an appeal of an academic performance rating, based upon unusual testing circumstances.
Directs the department to convene a working group to evaluate the current rules pertaining to definitions, and reporting of incidents relating to school safety. Specifies membership of the working group. Directs the state board to convene a panel to make recommendations concerning the content, design, and layout of the SARs.
Beginning ting with the SARs issued for the 2005-06 school year, repeals the current statutory requirements, and directs the state board to approve the content, design, and layout of the SARs. Specifies information required to be in the SARs. Requires the department to print SARs for selected schools in Spanish.
Encourages the state board to establish accreditation indicators based in part on the diagnostic academic growth calculation and to expand the use of the diagnostic academic growth calculation.
Appropriates $68,300 from the state education fund to the department for implementation of the act.
VETOED by Governor June 2, 2005
H.B. 05-1024 Dropout prevention activity grant program - creation - voluntary tax contribution - repeal. Creates the dropout prevention activity grant program ("program") to fund before- and after-school arts-based and vocational activity programs, with the goal of reducing the student dropout rate. Requires that, for income tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2005, but before January 1, 2008, a voluntary contributor designation line for the program shall appear on individual income tax forms. Repeals the requirement for the voluntary contribution designation line, effective January 1, 2009, unless the general assembly adopts a bill to continue the designation line in the preceding regular session.
Restricts the program to public schools that include any of grades 6 through 12 ("qualified school") and to community organizations acting in partnership with qualified schools ("qualified community organization"). Directs a qualified school that seeks funding for an arts-based or vocational activity program to apply to the board of education of the school district in which the qualified school is located ("district board") for permission to apply to the department for a grant. If the district board grants permission, directs the qualified school to submit a grant application to the department of education ("department") in accordance with rules adopted by the state board of education ("state board").
Directs a community organization that seeks funding for an arts-based or vocational activity program to enter into a partnership agreement with a qualified school to provide the program to students in any of grades 6 through 12. Makes the qualified school's participation subject to approval of the qualified school's district board. Directs the qualified community organization to submit a grant application to the department in accordance with rules adopted by the state board.
Directs the state board to promulgate rules for implementation of the program. Directs the department to review each grant application received and to make recommendations to the state board regarding the awarding of program grants. Establishes a priority and minimum considerations for awarding program grants. Requires the state board to award program grants in any year that moneys are received in the dropout prevention activity grant fund ("fund").
Requires the department annually to notify school districts of the amount of money credited to the fund and to post the notice on its web-site for qualified community organizations. Creates the fund, identifies the source of moneys for the fund as moneys received through the voluntary tax contribution and any gifts, grants, or donations received by the department for implementation of the program. Authorizes the department to accept gifts, grants, and donations, and allows the department to keep up to 2% of the moneys annually appropriated from the fund to offset the administrative costs incurred in implementing the program. Directs the general assembly annually to appropriate from the fund to the department of revenue an amount equal to the department of revenue's costs incurred in administering the voluntary contributions to the fund.
Requires each qualified school and qualified community organization that receives a program grant to report to the department, for each year in which it receives a grant, specified information concerning the arts-based or vocational activity program and the number of participating students. Directs the department to submit an annual report to the education committees of the general assembly and to the governor concerning the program, the arts-based and vocational activity programs that receive funding, the number of students that participate in the programs, and the dropout rates for the qualified schools that receive grants.
APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2005
EFFECTIVE May 24, 2005
H.B. 05-1026 Educator licensure - endorsements - complaint procedure - renewal - authorizations - terminology changes - cash fund transfer - alternative teacher licensees. Rather than requiring an applicant for a license endorsement in special education to complete a program in special education, requires the applicant to complete the course work and assessments identified by rule of the state board of education ("state board"). Authorizes the state board to adopt rules to create a procedure for receiving complaints against persons applying for or holding educator licenses and certificates.
For purposes of professional development activities required for license renewal, authorizes the department to accept course work from any community, technical, or junior college, not just those in the statewide system. Requires a license holder to demonstrate that any educational travel he or she submits as a professional development activity is related to the license holder's endorsement area. Clarifies the professional development goal pertaining to use of assessments. Authorizes the state board to adopt rules requiring professional development activities to be related to the license holder's endorsement area knowledge or delivery skills in the license holder's endorsement area or in literacy.
With regard to a person who converts his or her professional educator license to inactive status because he or she is called into active military duty, instructs the department, when reactivating the license, to reactivate it for a period equal to the time remaining on the license when converted to inactive status plus the time the person spent in active military duty.
Makes a temporary teacher eligibility authorization valid for one year, and allows the department to renew the authorization twice. Expands the criteria for a temporary authorization to make it available to a person who is eligible to hold a certificate or license as an educator in another state. Changes the name of the temporary authorization to the interim authorization.
Changes the name of the provisional educator license to the initial educator license. Transfers $14,879 from the nonpublic school fingerprint fund to the educator licensure cash fund. Encourages school districts to hire persons with alternative teacher licenses, and clarifies the school districts' authority to do so.
APPROVED by Governor April 7, 2005
EFFECTIVE April 7, 2005
H.B. 05-1036 Safe school plan - internet safety plan. Encourages each school district, as part of the safe school plan, to adopt an internet safety plan ("plan") consisting of comprehensive, age-appropriate topics to teach the safe and legal use of the internet. Suggests the minimum topics that may be included in the plan. Encourages school districts to incorporate the plan topics into the regular classroom curricula. Encourages each school district to use existing internet safety resources available from nonprofit organizations in adopting the topics for the plan and to work with local law enforcement agencies and parents and teachers in adopting the topics for the plan.
Encourages each school district to implement the plan beginning with the 2005-06 school year and annually to review the plan and revise it as necessary. Suggests that each school district identify a person who is responsible for overseeing implementation of the plan. Encourages the identified person to submit an annual internet safety plan implementation report to the school district board of education. Suggests that the school district board of education submit to the department of education and post on the school district web site a summary of the annual internet safety plan implementation report.
APPROVED by Governor April 14, 2005
EFFECTIVE April 14, 2005
H.B. 05-1057 Postsecondary educational opportunities - notice to students and parents - reporting by college preparation programs operating within school districts and charter schools. Beginning in spring 2006, requires the Colorado commission on higher education ("commission") to provide notice to the parents or legal guardians of all eighth-grade students enrolled in public schools in the state regarding postsecondary education issues. Specifies the minimum contents of the notice.
Directs each school district board of education and the state charter school institute board to adopt a policy by October 1, 2005, to:
● Provide to the commission the names and mailing addresses of students enrolled in the eighth grade; and
● To include a provision in any contract entered into on or after August 10, 2005, with a college preparation program that the program shall provide to the commission a report on participation and outcomes for the program.
Further directs each school district state board of education to adopt a policy to provide to the parent or legal guardian of each student enrolled in the eighth grade a list of courses the school district has available that satisfy the commission's higher education admission guidelines.
APPROVED by Governor May 2, 2005
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2005
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning
the effective date, see page vi of this digest.
H.B. 05-1087 International education programs - advisory council. Recognizes the importance of international education programs in the public elementary and secondary schools. Directs the state board of education ("state board") to appoint an international education advisory council ("advisory council") to explore and make recommendations to the state board, commissioner of education, and department of education ("department") concerning international education programs, opportunities, and activities. Specifies the membership of the advisory council. Requires review of the advisory council prior to repeal, effective July 1, 2015.
Authorizes the department to receive gifts, grants, and donations to implement the act. Creates the international education fund for any moneys received by the department.
VETOED by Governor June 2, 2005
H.B. 05-1088 Data related to inmates with children attending school - collection by department of corrections. Directs the department of corrections ("department") to obtain information from each inmate related to whether the inmate has a child in Colorado and, if so, whether the child is enrolled in school and the school district or state charter school in which the child is enrolled. Requires the department to collect and compile information related to programs that assist students whose parents are incarcerated.
APPROVED by Governor June 2, 2005
EFFECTIVE June 2, 2005
H.B. 05-1191 School districts - transportation fee - imposition. Allows a school district board of education ("board"), without voter approval, to impose a fee for the payment of excess transportation costs. Requires the board to solicit and consider recommendations concerning the imposition of the fee and the fee schedule from the school district accountability committee and from teachers, parents, and students, including any statewide or local organization representing parents, teachers, and students in the school district. Requires the board to ensure that only those pupils who use transportation services are required to pay the fee.
If a board chooses to impose a transportation fee on charter school students, requires the board to solicit input from the charter school parents and to ensure that the full amount of the transportation fee collected from charter school students is used to offset the costs of providing transportation to the charter school students. Allows a charter school to seek from its authorizing board authority to impose a transportation fee on the students enrolled in the charter school.
Became Law June 9, 2005
EFFECTIVE June 9, 2005
H.B. 05-1216 Low-performance schools - corrective action cycle. Repeals the corrective action cycle for public schools that are consistently in the lowest 10% of public schools in a school district receiving academic performance ratings ("rating") of "low" or that consistently receive ratings of "unsatisfactory". Repeals the provisions concerning creation of independent charter schools.
Directs the state board of education ("state board") annually to notify each school district board of education and the state charter school institute ("institute") as to which schools of the school district and which institute charter schools will receive a rating of "low" or "unsatisfactory" and the academic performance score received by each of such schools.
Directs the department of education ("department") to adopt a school performance review process ("review process") for a school that receives a rating of "unsatisfactory" ("unsatisfactory school"). At a minimum, requires the review process to include creation of school support teams to review each unsatisfactory school and to make recommendations for an improvement plan with corrective actions. To the extent moneys are available, allows the department to expand the review process to include schools that receive a "low" rating. Requires the department to provide comprehensive training for persons hired to serve on the school support teams.
Allows each school district and the institute to establish its own review process, which review process is subject to the department's approval. Provides that, if a school district or the institute establishes its own review process, the school district or the institute is responsible for selecting the school support team for an unsatisfactory school. Requires the department, upon the request of a school district or the institute, to provide comprehensive training for persons hired by the school district or the institute to serve on school support teams.
Requires an unsatisfactory school to undergo a review by a school support team. On completion of the review, requires the school support team to prepare a comprehensive performance review report ("report"). Requires the unsatisfactory school to hold a public meeting to receive comment on the report. Following receipt of the report, requires the school district or the institute to adopt an improvement plan with corrective actions ("improvement plan") based on the report and to hold a public meeting to receive comment on the improvement plan. Specifies the corrective actions that may be included in the improvement plan.
One year after implementation of the improvement plan, requires a member of the school support team to review the unsatisfactory school's implementation of the improvement plan ("implementation review"). On completion of the implementation review, requires the school support team member to submit to the school district or the institute an implementation review report. Requires the school district or the institute to hold a public meeting to receive comment on the implementation review report.
Specifies the conditions under which the unsatisfactory school is required to restructure if it does not adequately improve following implementation of the improvement plan. If the unsatisfactory school improves adequately following implementation of the improvement plan, specifies the circumstances under which the school is no longer subject to the corrective action cycle.
For a school that receives a rating of "low" with an academic performance score of a -1.75 or lower for 2 consecutive years ("low school"), requires the school district or the institute to review the school's operations and implement an improvement plan for the low school. Requires the school district or the institute to hold a public meeting concerning the improvement plan prior to implementation. If a low school does not adequately improve following implementation of the improvement plan, specifies the circumstances under which the low school shall be subject to restructuring. If the school improves adequately following implementation of the improvement plan, specifies the circumstances under which the school is no longer subject to the corrective action cycle.
If a school is required to restructure, directs the school district or the institute to submit to the state board a plan for altering the governance structure of the school ("plan"). Within 60 days, requires the state board to either approve or disapprove the plan, and to state specific reasons if it disapproves the plan. If the state board disapproves the plan, requires the school district or the institute to work with the state board to finalize the plan. Specifies the methods by which the school district or the institute may alter the school's governance structure.
Allows a school district or the institute to voluntarily restructure a school at least 60 days prior to a determination that the school is required to restructure. Allows the school district or institute to seek approval of a voluntary restructuring by submitting the restructuring plan ("voluntary plan") to the state board to determine whether it constitutes a major restructuring of the school. Permits the state board to determine that the voluntary plan constitutes a major restructuring of the school only if the voluntary plan meets the requirements specified for a mandatory restructuring. If the state board determines that the voluntary plan constitutes a major restructuring of the school, removes the school from the corrective action cycle. Specifies the procedure by which a school district may convert a school to a charter school as one of the methods of restructuring the school.
VETOED by Governor June 2, 2005
H.B. 05-1217 Assessments - sufficient academic growth - calculation - appropriation. For purposes of calculating sufficient academic growth, allows the department of education to select intermediate grade levels at which to project a student's rate of academic growth, with the goal of achieving proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics by the conclusion of the tenth grade.
Repeals the requirement that the department of education annually contract for an audit of the school accountability reports. In the fiscal year 2005-06 general appropriations bill, within the appropriation to the department of education, management and administration, reduces by $150,000 the appropriation for school accountability reports and the state data reporting system and increases by $150,000 the appropriation for the longitudinal analyses of student assessment results.
APPROVED by Governor June 2, 2005
EFFECTIVE June 2, 2005
H.B. 05-1237 Physical education recognition program - rules - fund. Establishes the statewide physical education recognition program ("program") to recognize and reward public schools and physical education teachers that meet established criteria. Creates a board to establish objective criteria for a tiered rating, solicit and review applications, rate programs, and recommend annual awards. Requires the state board of education ("state board") to adopt rules governing applications. Subject to available donations, directs the state board to recommend to the Colorado association for health, physical education, recreation, and dance ("association") the program obtaining the highest ratings and the outstanding physical education teachers, one in an elementary school, one in a middle school, and one in a high school, that should receive monetary awards. Directs the association to make the annual awards recommended by the state board.
Establishes a fund to accept gifts, grants, and donations. If the fund does not receive at least $50,000 by June 1, 2006, repeals the act effective July 1, 2006. At the end of each fiscal year, transfers moneys from the fund to the association. If the act is not repealed earlier, repeals the act effective July 1, 2010.
VETOED by Governor June 3, 2005
H.B. 05-1238 School-readiness quality improvement program - appropriation. Changes the name of the "school-readiness child care subsidization program" to the "school-readiness quality improvement program" ("program"). Recognizes the early success of the program on a geographic pilot basis, and expands the program to include additional eligible communities. Clarifies that the program will be a continuing program.
Allows for the identification or establishment of early childhood care and education councils comprised of representatives from various public and private stakeholders in the local early childhood community who are committed to supporting the preparedness of young children for school. Specifies that a community may identify a community consolidated child care pilot site agency or other existing entity to serve as an early childhood care and education council or establish a new early childhood care and education council. Changes the program by having school-readiness quality improvement funding flow through the early childhood care and education councils to local early care and education providers, rather than through county departments of social services to such providers. Clarifies that the program is not intended to create an entitlement. Includes school districts in the definition of early care and education providers.
Expands the program to target the school readiness of young children who will ultimately attend eligible elementary schools that have received certain declining academic improvement ratings and that have, for that school year, received a specified overall academic performance rating.
Directs the early childhood care and education councils receiving school-readiness quality improvement funding through the program to report certain information to the department of human services. Directs the department of human services to report regularly to the education committees of the general assembly.
Expands the child care voluntary credentialing system, which was previously limited to the community consolidated child care services pilot site agencies, statewide to further enhance the school readiness of young children throughout the state of Colorado.
For the 2005-06 fiscal year, appropriates 0.5 FTE to the department of human services, division of child care, for the implementation of the program.
APPROVED by Governor June 2, 2005
EFFECTIVE June 2, 2005
H.B. 05-1246 Students with IEPs - calculating academic performance ratings for part-time students - study group - repeal. For a student with an individual educational program whose score is used to calculate academic performance ratings and who attends part-time a school or program located away from the school in which the student is enrolled, allows the school district in which the student is enrolled or, in the case of a board of cooperative services, the administrative unit, to designate the school or program to which the student's scores will be assigned to calculate academic performance ratings.
Establishes a study group in the department of education to evaluate the use of assessments for students who have individual educational programs but who are not eligible to take the CSAP-A assessment. Specifies membership for the study group. Requires a report on or before December 31, 2005. Repeals the section effective January 1, 2006.
APPROVED by Governor May 10, 2005
EFFECTIVE May 10, 2005
H.B. 05-1255 Children with disabilities - selected special education options - excess-costs tuition - rules. Standardizes the provisions concerning payment of tuition for the excess costs incurred in educating a child with a disability ("excess-costs tuition") when a child with a disability enrolls in a school district other than the child's school district of residence, a charter school, or an on-line program ("selected special education option"). Prohibits a selected special education option from charging the district of residence excess-costs tuition if the child receives educational services from the selected special education option for less than a percentage of time specified by rule of the state board of education ("state board"). Requires the minimum percentage of time set by rule to be at least 60%. Directs the state board to adopt rules applicable to all selected special education options.
VETOED by Governor April 7, 2005
H.B. 05-1279 General fund appropriation - determination of applicability of required increase for public school funding. Specifies that the general assembly is to determine the applicability of the 5% increase requirement for general fund appropriations for total program funding under the "Public School Finance Act of 1994" in the next state fiscal year based on the personal income growth information or data that is available at the time it enacts the general appropriation bill for that state fiscal year. Specifies the circumstances under which the general assembly is either required or allowed to modify its initial determination and the general fund appropriation for total program funding at the time it considers supplemental appropriation bills for that state fiscal year based on actual or adjusted Colorado personal income growth data available at the time. Specifies that the determination and general fund appropriation made in a state fiscal year shall not be subject to modification in later state fiscal years based on adjusted Colorado personal income growth data issued after January 1 of the state fiscal year for which the determination and appropriation were made.
APPROVED by Governor June 3, 2005
EFFECTIVE June 3, 2005
H.B. 05-1311 Expelled and at-risk student services grant program - evaluation - reporting. Authorizes the department of education to retain up to 1% of any appropriation for the expelled and at-risk student services grant program ("program") to evaluate the program. Requires the department to report annually the evaluation findings to the education committees of the house of representatives and the senate beginning January 1, 2006.
APPROVED by Governor June 2, 2005
EFFECTIVE June 2, 2005
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