2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 22 - Education
Financing of Schools - Continued
Article 54 - Public School Finance Act of 1994
§ 22-54-130. Hold-harmless full-day kindergarten funding

(1) For the 2008-09 budget year and each budget year thereafter, a district that participated in the Colorado preschool program pursuant to article 28 of this title in the 2007-08 budget year and that served a percentage of children authorized to participate in the district's preschool program through a full-day kindergarten portion of the program in the 2007-08 budget year shall receive hold-harmless full-day kindergarten funding pursuant to this section. The funding paid pursuant to this section shall be in addition to the funding for supplemental kindergarten enrollment that the district receives pursuant to section 22-54-103 (7) (d).

(2) A district's annual hold-harmless full-day kindergarten funding shall be an amount equal to the number of children that the district served through a full-day kindergarten portion of the district's preschool program in the 2007-08 budget year or the number of children enrolled in kindergarten in the district in the applicable budget year, whichever is less, multiplied by the district's per pupil revenue for the applicable budget year, and then multiplied by the difference between one and the full-day kindergarten factor for the applicable budget year specified in section 22-54-103 (15).

(3) In each applicable budget year, the general assembly shall appropriate to the department the amount required for hold-harmless full-day kindergarten funding pursuant to this section. The department shall annually allocate to each district described in subsection (1) of this section the amount of the district's hold-harmless full-day kindergarten funding calculated pursuant to subsection (2) of this section.

(4) For the 2008-09 budget year and each budget year thereafter, a district that receives funding pursuant to this section shall provide a full day of kindergarten in the applicable budget year to at least the same number of children for which the district provided a full day of kindergarten in the 2007-08 budget year through the Colorado preschool program; except that this subsection (4) shall not apply in a budget year in which the number of children who choose to enroll in a full day of kindergarten is less than the number of children who enrolled in a full day of kindergarten in the 2007-08 budget year through the Colorado preschool program.