Title 22, Education
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-101 Short title
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This article shall be known and may be cited as the Education Accountability Act of 2009. Source: L. 2009: Entire article R&RE, (SB 09-163), ch. 293, p. 1459, � 1, effective May 21.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-102 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly hereby finds that an effective system of statewide education accountability is one that: (a) Focuses the attention of educators, parents, students, and other members of the community on maximizing every student's progress toward postsecondary and workforc…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-103 Definitions
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As used in this article 11, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Accreditation means certification by the state board that a school district and the public schools of the school district, or the institute and the institute charter schools, meet the requirements established …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-104 Rules - college and career readiness achievement standards
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(1) The state board shall promulgate rules pursuant to the State Administrative Procedure Act, article 4 of title 24, as required in this article 11 and may promulgate such additional rules as it finds necessary for the implementation of this article 11, including, but not limite…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-105 Funding
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(1) The department is authorized to seek, accept, and expend public and private gifts, grants, and donations for the implementation of this article; except that the department shall not accept a gift, grant, or donation if it is subject to conditions that are inconsistent with th…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-201 State public education system - annual performance review - targets for improvement
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(1) (a) The state board shall annually review the performance of the statewide public education system, including but not limited to reviewing the levels of attainment on the performance indicators demonstrated by each public school, each school district, and the institute. Follo…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-202 Colorado growth model - technical advisory panel - accountability work group - rules
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(1) (a) The state board, by rule, shall adopt, and revise as necessary, the Colorado growth model, which shall be a student longitudinal academic growth model that is available in the public domain. In adopting and revising the Colorado growth model, the state board shall conside…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-203 Student longitudinal academic growth - calculation - data - research
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(1) (a) Each school year by a date established in state board rules, the department shall calculate, to the extent practicable, what will constitute adequate longitudinal academic growth for each student for that school year in each subject that is included in the statewide asses…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-204 Performance indicators - measures - repeal
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(1) (a) The department shall annually determine the level of attainment of each public school, each school district, the institute, and the state as a whole on each of the following performance indicators: (I) Student longitudinal academic growth, based on students' academic prog…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-205 State review panel - creation
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(1) (a) The commissioner shall recruit an appropriate number of highly qualified persons to serve when needed as a state review panel. The commissioner, with the approval of the state board, shall appoint the members of the state review panel to assist the department and the stat…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-206 Accreditation of school districts and institute - contracts - rules
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(1) Pursuant to the authority vested in the state board by section 1 of article IX of the state constitution to exercise general supervision over the public schools in the state, the state board shall annually accredit the school districts and the institute as provided in this ar…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-207 Accreditation categories - criteria - rules
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(1) The state board shall adopt rules to establish accreditation categories that include, but are not limited to: (a) Accredited with distinction, meaning a school district or the institute meets or exceeds the statewide targets or targets annually set by the school district or t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-208 Accreditation - annual review - supports and interventions - rules
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(1) (a) The department shall annually review each school district’s and the institute’s performance and, based on the rules of the state board, determine the appropriate accreditation category for the school district or institute. The department shall notify each school district …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-209 Removal of accreditation - recommended actions - review - appeal - rules
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(1) The department may recommend to the commissioner and the state board that the state board remove a school district’s or the institute’s accreditation if: (a) and (b) Repealed. (c) (I) The school district or the institute has substantially failed to comply with the provisions …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-210 Public schools - annual review - plans - supports and interventions - rules
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(1) (a) The state board shall promulgate rules establishing objective, measurable criteria that the department shall apply in recommending to the state board that a public school shall implement a performance, improvement, priority improvement, or turnaround plan or that a public…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-211 Performance watch - parent and community meeting - school districts - institute - public schools
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(1) (a) In the third year in which a school district or the institute is accredited with priority improvement plan or lower while on performance watch, the school district or institute, whichever is applicable, shall host a parent and community meeting to discuss the school distr…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-212 Department - accountability study - report
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(1) (a) The department shall facilitate a study, in consultation with the technical advisory panel, a council that focuses on rural education, the accountability work group described in section 22-11-202 (3), and other advisory groups with relevant expertise, and make recommendat…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-213 Pathway plan - school districts - state charter school institute - public schools - rules
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(1) (a) The pathway plan is a multi-year plan for school improvement that is prepared by a school district, the institute, or a public school for the state review panel and the state board. (b) (I) A pathway plan connects the school district’s or the institute’s proposal for sign…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-301 School district accountability committees - creation - membership
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(1) Each local school board shall appoint or create a process for the election of a school district accountability committee that shall consist of: (a) At least three parents of students enrolled in the district public schools; (b) At least one teacher who is employed by the scho…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-302 School district accountability committee - powers and duties
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(1) Each school district accountability committee has the following powers and duties: (a) To recommend to its local school board priorities for spending school district moneys. Whenever the school district accountability committee recommends spending priorities, it shall make re…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-303 Accredited or accredited with distinction - performance plan - school district or institute - contents - adoption
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(1) (a) In accordance with time frames specified in state board rules, each local school board that is accredited or accredited with distinction shall annually adopt a performance plan for the school district as described in subsection (3) of this section. (b) The school district…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-304 Accredited with improvement plan - school district or institute - plan contents - adoption
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(1) (a) In accordance with the time frames specified in state board rule, each school district that is accredited with improvement plan shall annually adopt and implement a district improvement plan as described in subsection (3) of this section. (b) The school district accountab…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-305 Accredited with priority improvement plan - school district or institute - plan contents - adoption
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(1) (a) In accordance with the time frames specified in state board rule, each school district that is accredited with priority improvement plan shall annually adopt and implement a district priority improvement plan as described in subsection (3) of this section. When a school d…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-306 Accredited with turnaround plan - school district or institute - plan content - adoption
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(1) (a) In accordance with the time frames specified in state board rule, each school district that is accredited with turnaround plan shall annually adopt and implement a district turnaround plan as described in subsection (3) of this section. When a school district creates a pa…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-307 Accreditation of public schools
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(1) The local school board for each school district shall adopt policies for accreditation of the district public schools. The institute board shall adopt policies for accreditation of the institute charter schools. Each school district's and the institute's school accreditation …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-401 School accountability committee - creation - qualifications - elections
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(1) (a) Each district public school and each institute charter school shall establish a school accountability committee. Each school accountability committee shall consist of at least seven members as follows: (I) The principal of the school or the principal’s designee; (II) At l…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-402 School accountability committee - powers and duties - meetings
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(1) Each school accountability committee has the following powers and duties: (a) To recommend to the principal of its school priorities for spending school moneys. The principal shall consider the school accountability committee’s recommendations regarding spending state, federa…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-403 School performance plan - contents
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(1) (a) If the state board, pursuant to section 22-11-210, directs a district public school to adopt a performance plan, the school principal and the school district superintendent, or his or her designee, in accordance with time frames specified in state board rules, shall adopt…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-404 School improvement plan - contents
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(1) (a) If the state board, pursuant to section 22-11-210, directs a district public school to adopt an improvement plan, the school principal and the school district superintendent, or his or her designee, in accordance with time frames specified in state board rules, shall adop…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-405 School priority improvement plan - contents
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(1) (a) If the state board, pursuant to section 22-11-210, directs a district public school to adopt a priority improvement plan, the local school board, in accordance with time frames specified in state board rules, shall adopt a school priority improvement plan, as described in…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-406 School turnaround plan - contents
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(1) (a) If the state board, pursuant to section 22-11-210, directs a district public school to adopt a turnaround plan, the local school board, in accordance with time frames specified in state board rules, shall adopt a school turnaround plan, as described in subsection (3) of t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-501 State data reporting system
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(1) The department shall administer, manage, and maintain a comprehensive data collection and reporting system for collecting and reporting the data specified in and required to implement this article. The department shall ensure that the state data reporting system is capable of…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-502 Data portal - creation - contents
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(1) The department shall develop and maintain an internet-based electronic data delivery system to provide education accountability data to public schools, school districts, the institute, parents, and other members of the public. (2) At a minimum, the department shall publish on…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-503 Performance reports - contents - rules
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(1) The department shall publish on the data portal a school performance report for each public school in the state, a school district performance report for each school district in the state, a performance report for the institute, and a performance report for the state as a who…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-503.5 Student performance by course level - report - definitions
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(1) (a) The general assembly finds and declares that: (I) All students deserve the opportunity to learn higher-level content; (II) The school and the school district's course placement policies and decisions impact a student's opportunity to learn; and (III) Course-level placemen…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-504 School district and institute reporting requirements
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(1) Each school district shall annually report to the department for each of the district public schools: (a) Any information necessary to prepare the performance reports described in section 22-11-503; (b) For each district public school, the school performance, improvement, pri…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-505 Statewide education accountability dashboard - definition
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(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, statewide education accountability dashboard or dashboard means a statewide education accountability dashboard used to report and access: (a) Local and statewide education accountability data; and (b) Postseconda…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-600.3 Definitions
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As used in this part 6, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Program means the Colorado school awards program established in section 22-11-601 (1). Source: L. 2025: Entire section added, (SB 25-275), ch. 377, p. 2048, � 84, effective August 6.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-601 Colorado school awards program - created - rules
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(1) There is hereby established the Colorado school awards program, to be administered by the department. The state board shall promulgate rules for the administration of this part 6 and the program. The rules shall include but need not be limited to procedures for transmitting t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-602 Colorado school awards program - John Irwin schools of excellence awards - rules
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(1) The state board shall annually present financial awards to the highest performing public schools in the state based on the schools’ levels of attainment on the performance indicator concerning student achievement levels on the statewide assessments. (2) Of the moneys availabl…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-603 Governor's distinguished improvement awards - rules
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(1) The state board shall annually present financial awards to the public schools in the state demonstrating the highest rates of student longitudinal growth, including longitudinal growth across multiple years, as measured by the Colorado growth model. The technical advisory pan…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-603.5 Centers of excellence awards
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(1) (a) The state board shall annually present financial awards to public schools in the state that enroll a student population of which at least seventy-five percent are at-risk pupils, as defined in section 22-54-103 (1.5), and that demonstrate the highest rates of student long…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-603.7 Academic growth awards - rules - definitions
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(1) (a) Subject to available appropriations, the state board shall annually present an award to the public high school that demonstrates the highest levels of student academic growth within each classification. The awards presented pursuant to this section must be in the form of …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-604 Colorado school awards program - distribution of award
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(1) Any award presented by the state board pursuant to this part 6 shall be spent or distributed for use within the public school as the principal of the public school, after consultation with the school accountability committee for the public school, deems appropriate. (2) Any m…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-605 School awards program fund - creation - contributions
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(1) The department may accept and expend gifts, grants, and donations from any source, public or private, to make financial awards and purchase tangible items of recognition, such as banners or trophies, to award to public schools pursuant to the provisions of this part 6. The de…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-701 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly finds that: (a) The statewide accountability system relies substantially on large-scale, state-administered assessment results to measure public school and school district performance. Using these results provides a limited picture of the successes of and…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-702 Definitions
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As used in this part 7, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Accountability system partner means a public or private institution of higher education, or a private nonprofit entity, that works with local education providers to implement education policy initiatives and that …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-703 Local accountability system - grant program established
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(1) There is established in the department the local accountability system grant program. A local education provider or group of local education providers may establish and seek funding through the grant program to support a local accountability system that supplements the state …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-704 Local accountability systems - supplemental performance reports - alternatively formatted plans
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(1) (a) A local education provider that chooses to implement a local accountability system may submit to the department a supplemental performance report for the local education provider and for each public school operated by the local education provider. A district charter schoo…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-11-705 Local accountability systems - report
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(1) To support communication and the ability of the state and of local education providers to learn from the efforts of the local education providers that choose to implement local accountability systems, before July 15, 2020, and on or before July 15 each year thereafter, the de…