HB 1299

The bill requires the Colorado bureau of investigation to transmit a list of missing children to the Colorado department of education (department) instead of each school district. The bill repeals the requirement for a school district, board of cooperative services, district charter school, or institute charter school (local education provider) to have paper and pencil assessment policies for state-administered assessments in public schools. The bill allows a school district, a charter school network, or a charter school collaborative with 1,200 students or fewer to submit a single plan to satisfy school district, school network, or school plan requirements. The bill allows schools that have waived out of the underlying requirements for licensed personnel evaluations to be exempt from submitting licensed personnel evaluations. The bill prohibits the department from representing a voluntary data collection request to a school district, the state charter school institute, or a public school as mandatory and prohibits the department from conditioning any benefit unrelated to a specific grant on the completion of a voluntary data collection request. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)