Title 22, Education
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-94-102 Contract to create quality teacher recruitment program
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(1) The department shall contract with a vendor, in partnership with a district, to create a quality teacher recruitment program to recruit, select, train, and retain licensed teachers to teach in public schools and in school districts in the state that can demonstrate a historic…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-94-103 Annual reports
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(1) A vendor that enters into a contract with the department to establish and operate a program pursuant to this article shall, for the duration of the contract, submit a report to the department that includes the data and performance metrics from the prior school year as specifi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-96-101 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that: (a) Colorado ranks fortieth in the nation in the school nurse-to-student ratio; (b) The federal center for disease control's healthy people 2020 recommended one school nurse for every seven hundred fifty general education s…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-96-102 Definitions
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As used in this article 96, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Behavioral health care means services to prevent, identify, and treat substance use disorders, substance misuse, and mental health disorders, including services to support social-emotional health. (1.5) Depart…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-96-103 Behavioral health care professional matching grant program - created - rules
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(1) (a) There is created in the department the behavioral health care professional matching grant program to provide funding to education providers for the following purposes: (I) To increase the presence of school health professionals in schools to provide behavioral health care…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-96-104 Behavioral health care professional matching grant program - application - criteria - grant awards
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(1) An education provider that seeks a grant from the program shall submit an application to the department in accordance with the rules adopted by the state board. The department shall review each application received from an education provider and make recommendations to the st…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-96-105 Reporting
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(1) In any fiscal year in which the general assembly makes an appropriation to the department for the purposes of the program, each education provider that receives a grant through the program shall report the following information to the department each year during the term of t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-102-101 Short title
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The short title of this article 102 is the Colorado K-5 Social and Emotional Health Act. Source: L. 2019: Entire article added, (HB 19-1017), ch. 156, p. 1846, � 1, effective August 2.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-102-102 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly finds that: (a) School mental health professionals, including school social workers, positively impact the school environment by working with young students and their families to identify safety-net insecurities, social and emotional skills deficits, inst…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-102-103 Definitions
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As used in this article 102, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Department means the department of education created and existing pursuant to section 24-1-115. (2) Pilot program means the K-5 social and emotional health pilot program, created in section 22-102-104. (3) Pi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-102-104 K-5 social and emotional health pilot program - creation - selection of pilot schools - rules
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(1) There is created the K-5 social and emotional health pilot program in the department to determine the impact of dedicated school mental health professionals in kindergarten through fifth grade in elementary schools that have high-poverty, high-need students. The pilot program…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-102-105 Implementation of pilot program
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(1) In the first and subsequent years of operation of the pilot program, each pilot school shall employ or contract with additional school mental health professionals so that each of grades one through five and the kindergarten program in each pilot school has a school mental hea…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-102-106 Pilot program coordinator - evaluation of pilot program - student impacts and outcomes
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(1) The department shall employ or contract with a pilot program coordinator to oversee the implementation of the pilot program across the pilot schools. The pilot program coordinator must be a school social worker who shall work with each pilot school’s team of school mental hea…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-102-107 Appropriations for this article - gifts, grants, or donations
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(1) The general assembly may appropriate money from the marijuana tax cash fund, created in section 39-28.8-501, to the department to be used for the pilot program established in this article 102. The department may accept and expend gifts, grants, or donations from private or pu…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-102-108 Repeal of article
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This article 102 is repealed, effective July 1, 2033. Source: L. 2019: Entire article added, (HB 19-1017), ch. 156, p. 1854, � 1, effective August 2. L. 2020: Entire section amended, (HB 20-1418), ch. 197, p. 944, � 12, effective June 30. Cross references: For the legislative dec…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-104-101 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly finds that: (a) Significant interruptions to in-person learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic have led to potentially devastating and long-lasting negative impacts on student achievement, impacting every part of Colorado society; (b) These negative impacts…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-104-102 Definitions
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As used in this article 104, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Department means the department of education. (2) Local education provider means: (a) A school district organized pursuant to article 30 of this title 22; (b) A board of cooperative services created pursuant …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-104-103 Colorado high-impact tutoring program - created - rules
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(1) There is created in the department the Colorado high-impact tutoring program to provide grants to local education providers to implement high-impact tutoring programs prioritizing low-income or underserved students to address student learning loss or unfinished learning resul…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-104-104 Program application - criteria - awards
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(1) To receive a grant, a local education provider shall submit an application to the department in the manner determined by the department. The local education provider shall demonstrate need for support through the grant program, as determined by the department, which need may …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-104-105 Reporting requirements
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(1) On or before reporting deadlines established by the department, in each year in which a local education provider or group of providers receives a grant pursuant to the program, the provider or providers shall submit a report to the department that includes the information req…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-104-106 Funding for grant program
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(1) The general assembly may appropriate money to fund grants for high-impact tutoring programs pursuant to this article 104. (2) The department is not required to implement the program if there is insufficient money for program grants. Source: L. 2021: Entire article added, (HB …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-104-107 Repeal of article
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This article 104 is repealed, effective July 1, 2026. Source: L. 2021: Entire article added, (HB 21-1234), ch. 249, p. 1359, � 1, effective June 16.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-105-101 Short title
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The short title of this article 105 is the Fifth-day Academic Enrichment and Support Grant Program Act. Source: L. 2021: Entire article added, (HB 21-1006), ch. 382, p. 2555, � 1, effective June 30.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-105-102 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly finds that: (a) Colorado has more schools on a four-day school week than any other state in the country; (b) One hundred eleven of Colorado's one hundred seventy-eight school districts are on a four-day school week, representing more than eighty thousand …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-105-103 Definitions
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As used in this article 105, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Department means the department of education created and existing pursuant to section 24-1-115. (2) Eligible community-based organization means a community-based nonprofit organization that meets the eligibil…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-105-104 Fifth-day academic enrichment and support grant program - created - use of grants - rules
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(1) There is created in the department the fifth-day academic enrichment and support grant program to provide grants to eligible community-based nonprofit organizations and eligible rural school districts to provide supplemental enrichment programming and related enrichment activ…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-105-105 Grant program eligibility - application - criteria - awards
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(1) (a) To be eligible to receive a grant, a community-based organization must: (I) Be a nonprofit organization with experience in providing before- and after-school programs for children or other supplemental enrichment programming to school-aged children; (II) Have a relationsh…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-105-106 Reporting requirements
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(1) On or before February 15 in each fiscal year in which a grant is awarded or renewed, each eligible community-based organization and eligible rural school district that receives a grant through the grant program shall submit a report to the department. At a minimum, the report…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-105-107 Fifth-day academic enrichment and support grant program fund
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(1) There is created in the state treasury the fifth- day academic enrichment and support grant program fund. The fund consists of money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the fund. (2) The state treasurer shall credit all interest and income derived from th…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-106-101 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly finds that: (a) The state is committed to increasing the number of students who graduate from a Colorado high school, enroll in a Colorado institution of higher education, and graduate with a postsecondary credential in two to four academic years; (b) Sev…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-106-102 Definitions
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As used in this article 106, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Host institution means the institution of higher education that the department of education contracts with on behalf of the state board of education pursuant to section 22-106-104 to operate the institute. (2…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-106-103 Colorado student leaders institute - applications
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(1) There is in the department of education the Colorado student leaders institute. The year-long institute shall operate a competitive residential summer academic program for students who are entering tenth or eleventh grade in the coming fall semester. The program operated by t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-106-104 Colorado student leaders institute - state board of education - duties
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(1) The state board of education, when operating the student leaders institute, has the following duties and powers: (a) Oversee and direct the operations of the institute; (b) (I) The department of education, on behalf of the state board of education, shall follow the applicable…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-106-105 Colorado student leaders institute - funding - cash fund created
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(1) (a) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2025.) (b) If the department of education does not spend the total amount appropriated pursuant to this subsection (1) by the end of the fiscal year for which it is appropriated, any amount not expended up to fifty percent of the total amount app…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-106-106 Repeal of article
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This article 106 is repealed, effective September 1, 2026. Source: L. 2025: Entire section added, (SB 25-215), ch. 115, p. 475, � 3, effective April 25.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-108-101 Short title
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The short title of this article 108 is the Supporting Justice-Engaged Students in Education Act. Source: L. 2024: Entire article added, (HB 24-1216), ch. 314, p. 2109, � 1, effective August 7.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-108-102 Definitions
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As used in this article 108, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Department means the department of education created and existing pursuant to section 24-1-115. (2) Hotline means the statewide justice-engaged student hotline created pursuant to section 22-108-108. (3) Just…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-108-103 Justice-engaged student's bill of rights
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(1) With respect to education, a justice-engaged student has the right to: (a) Provision of alternative solutions to a general education, including, but not limited to, appropriate available alternate education programs; (b) Prompt enrollment or re-enrollment with a local educati…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-108-104 Educational support for justice-engaged students - local education provider responsibilities - point-of-contact person - guidance - automatic referral to multi-tiered systems of supports
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(1) Each local education provider in the state shall: (a) Prominently publish on its website an explanation of services and resources available for justice-engaged students, including the name, phone number, and email address of a point-of-contact person at the local education pr…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-108-105 Justice-engaged students interagency working group - duties - recommendations - rules
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(1) On or before July 1, 2024, the department shall convene an interagency working group comprised of members from the department of education, as appointed by the commissioner; the department of human services, as appointed by the executive director; the division of youth servic…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-108-106 Credit transfer from state custody situations - rules - definition
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(1) For the purposes of this section, “custody” means, but is not limited to, time spent in a facility operated by the department of human services, facility school, psychiatric facility, or day treatment center. (2) The state board of education, in collaboration with the departm…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-108-107 Justice-engaged students - participation in school activities
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On or before August 30, 2025, the department shall provide guidance to local education providers on how to allow a justice-engaged student to receive an accommodation to participate in school activities, including graduation ceremonies, sporting events, after-school activities, d…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-108-108 Statewide justice-engaged student hotline - report - repeal
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(1) On or before September 1, 2026, the department shall select and contract with an entity to establish and maintain a statewide hotline for justice-engaged students, families and caregivers, justice system personnel, and education personnel. The hotline must be accessible in at…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-108-109 Support person to assist students in small and rural districts
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Beginning July 1, 2025, as required by section 22-108-104 (1)(b), the department shall assist a student from small and rural school districts or who has been denied re-entry to the student's local education provider pursuant to section 22-33-105. The support person shall work wit…