CHAPTER 25

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EDUCATION - PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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HOUSE BILL 01-1146 [Digest]

BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Larson, Dean, King, Spence, Bacon, Coleman, Crane, Jahn, Jameson, Mace, Plant, Romanoff, Schultheis, and Williams S.;

also SENATOR(S) Pascoe, Dyer (Durango), Fitz-Gerald, Hanna, Tupa, and Windels.

AN ACT

Concerning the performance evaluation of the superintendent of a school district by a school district board of education.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

  SECTION 1.  22-9-106 (4), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

  22-9-106.  Local boards of education - duties. (4) (a)  Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (4), no person shall be responsible for the evaluation of licensed personnel unless such person has a principal or administrator license issued pursuant to article 60.5 of this title and has received education and training in evaluation skills approved by the department of education that will enable him or her to make fair, professional, and credible evaluations of the personnel whom he or she is responsible for evaluating. No person shall be issued a principal or administrator license or have a principal or administrator license renewed unless the state board determines that such person has received education and training approved by the department of education.

  (b)  A local board of education shall have the authority to evaluate the performance of the superintendent of the school district. The responsibility for conducting the performance evaluation of the superintendent shall rest exclusively with the local board of education.

  SECTION 2.  Effective date. This act shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly that is allowed for submitting a referendum petition pursuant to article V, section 1 (3) of the state constitution; except that, if a referendum petition is filed against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within such period, then the act, item, section, or part, if approved by the people, shall take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the governor.

Approved: March 11, 2001

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