2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 22 - Education
General and Administrative
Article 13 - School Turnaround Leaders Development Program
§ 22-13-104. Turnaround leadership development programs - providers - design grants - review

(1) The department shall issue a request for proposals from providers who seek to participate in the program. The department shall review the responses received and, based on the criteria adopted by rule of the state board, identify one or more providers to participate in the program by providing turnaround leadership development programs for school districts, the institute, and charter schools that receive school turnaround leader grants through the program. The department, on a regular basis, shall review each provider's turnaround leadership development programs, including the success achieved by the persons who complete the programs, and revise the list of identified providers as appropriate to ensure that the turnaround leadership development programs that are available through the program are of the highest quality.

(2) During the first three years that the program receives appropriations, an identified provider may apply as provided by rule for a one-time design grant to offset the costs incurred in creating or expanding the provider's turnaround leadership development programs. The department shall review the design grant applications using the criteria adopted by rule and recommend to the state board the providers that may receive design grants and the amount of the grants. The state board, taking into account the department's recommendations, may award the design grants from moneys appropriated by the general assembly to the department for the program. In each of the first three budget years in which the program operates, the state board may distribute as one-time design grants no more than approximately one-third of the amount appropriated for the program for the applicable budget year.

(3) Each identified provider shall track the effectiveness of persons who complete a turnaround leadership development program and report the effectiveness to the department in accordance with department guidelines. The report must use department rubrics to measure the effectiveness of persons who complete the turnaround leadership development program.