2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 22 - Education
School Districts
Article 30.5 - Charter Schools
Part 1 - Charter Schools Act
§ 22-30.5-112.2. Charter schools - at-risk supplemental aid - definitions - legislative declaration - repeal

(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) "Adjusted district per pupil revenues" has the same meaning as defined in section 22-30.5-112.1 (1) (a).

(b) "ASCENT program" means the accelerating students through concurrent enrollment program created in section 22-35-108.

(c) "At-risk pupils" has the same meaning as defined in section 22-54-103 (1.5).

(d) "District per pupil revenues" has the same meaning as defined in section 22-30.5-112 (2) (a.5) (II).

(e) "Qualifying school district" has the same meaning as defined in section 22-30.5-112.1.

(2) (a) For the 2012-13 budget year and each budget year thereafter, the general assembly shall appropriate to the department of education for allocation to school districts the amount calculated for at-risk supplemental aid for those school districts and district charter schools described in paragraph (b) of this subsection (2). The at-risk supplemental aid is additional funding and does not supplant any other funding provided pursuant to this article.

(b) (I) Each qualifying school district shall receive at-risk supplemental aid if the percentage of at-risk pupils in a district charter school authorized by the qualifying school district prior to July 1, 2004, is less than the percentage of at-risk pupils in the qualifying school district. The amount of the school district's at-risk supplemental aid is equal to the difference between one hundred percent of district per pupil revenues and one hundred percent of adjusted district per pupil revenues for each pupil enrolled in the district charter school, not including online pupils or pupils enrolled in the ASCENT program.

(II) Each district charter school in a qualifying school district that was initially authorized prior to July 1, 2004, shall receive at-risk supplemental aid if the percentage of at-risk students in the district charter school exceeds the percentage of at-risk pupils in the qualifying school district. The amount of the district charter school's at-risk supplemental aid is equal to the difference between one hundred percent of adjusted district per pupil revenues and one hundred percent of district per pupil revenues for each pupil enrolled in the district charter school, not including online pupils or pupils enrolled in the ASCENT program. A school district shall pass through one hundred percent of a district charter school's at-risk supplemental aid to the district charter school.

(III) Each district charter school in a school district that is not a qualifying district and whose percentage of at-risk pupils exceeds the percentage of at-risk pupils in the chartering school district shall receive at-risk supplemental aid. The amount of the district charter school's at-risk supplemental aid is equal to the difference between one hundred percent of adjusted district per pupil revenues and one hundred percent of district per pupil revenues for each pupil enrolled in the district charter school, not including online pupils or pupils enrolled in the ASCENT program. A school district shall pass through one hundred percent of a district charter school's at-risk supplemental aid to the district charter school.

(3) If the appropriation to the department of education is insufficient to fund one hundred percent of the at-risk supplemental aid calculated pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of this section, the department of education shall reduce each school district's and each district charter school's at-risk supplemental aid proportionately.

(4) (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, at-risk supplemental aid for a district charter school that converts from an institute charter school pursuant to section 22-30.5-504 (10) continues to be calculated for the converted school pursuant to section 22-30.5-513 as the funding applied to the converted school before the conversion; except that this subsection (4) does not apply if the converted school is authorized by a small rural school district, as described in section 22-54-108 (3) (b) (IV).

(b) This subsection (4) is repealed, effective July 1, 2021.