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. Following said review, the state board shall set, reaffirm, or revise, as appropriate, ambitious but attainable […]
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 consider recommendations from the technical advisory panel convened pursuant to subsection (2) […]
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 assessments. The department shall use data available for longitudinal analysis to review and […]
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: Student longitudinal academic growth, based on students’ academic progress, relative to student peers and across school years, toward meeting the state standards adopted pursuant […]
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 state board as provided in this article. In appointing the members […]
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 article and pursuant to rules adopted by the state […]
The state board shall promulgate rules to establish accreditation categories that shall include, but need not be limited to: “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 the institute or exceeds statewide attainment on the performance indicators and […]
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 and the institute of its accreditation category and shall publish each school district’s and the institute’s […]
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: Repealed. The school district or the institute has substantially failed to comply with the provisions of article 44 of this title, concerning budget and financial policies and procedures, or article 45 […]
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 school shall be subject to restructuring. In promulgating the rules, the state board shall place the […]
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 district’s or the institute’s accreditation level. The appropriate department personnel shall attend […]
