2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 22 - Education
General and Administrative
Article 2 - Department - Commissioner
Part 1 - Department of Education - Commissioner
§ 22-2-142. Professional development programs - principals

(1) The department shall provide or contract for professional development programs for principals. The department shall provide programs that address budgeting and curriculum and program development skills, especially with regard to programs for at-risk pupils and English language learners, as defined in section 22-54.5-103. The department shall publicize the availability of the professional development programs and make the professional development programs available to principals at a free or significantly reduced price. The department shall ensure that professional development programs are available at locations throughout the state.

(2) The department shall submit to the education committees of the house of representatives and the senate, or any successor committees, an annual report of the persons who participate in the professional development programs provided pursuant to this section. The report, at a minimum, must include the name of the participant, the employing school district or charter school, and the school of the school district at which the participant is employed.

(3) The general assembly shall annually appropriate one million dollars to the department for the costs incurred in implementing this section. The general assembly shall appropriate the moneys from the increase in state tax revenues received as the result of the passage of a citizen-initiated statewide ballot measure to increase state tax revenues to fund preschool through twelfth grade public education.