2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 19 - Children's Code
Article 2. The Colorado Juvenile Justice System
Section 19-2-414. Facility rules - academic and vocational courses.
(1) It is the duty of the department of human services to develop such rules and regulations as may be necessary for imparting instruction, preserving health, and enforcing discipline of juveniles committed to the department.
The academic courses of study and vocational training and instruction given in thefacilities established by section 19-2-403 and sections 19-2-406 to 19-2-408 shall include those approved by the department of education for the instruction of pupils in the primary and secondary schools of the state. Full credit shall be given by school districts in this state for completion of any semester, term, or year of study instruction by any juvenile who has earned credit therefor.
The director of the division of youth services may appoint, pursuant to section 13 ofarticle XII of the state constitution, a director and such other officers, teachers, instructors, counselors, and other personnel as the director may consider necessary to transact the business of the schools and may designate their duties. No person shall be appointed as a teacher or instructor in the schools who is not qualified to serve as a teacher or instructor in the schools under the laws of the state and the standards established by the department of education.
Source: L. 96: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 1626, § 1, effective January 1, 1997. L. 2017: (3) amended, (HB 17-1329), ch. 381, p. 1975, § 36, effective June 6.
Editor's note: This section was formerly numbered as 19-2-1113. Prior to relocation in 1996, the said section 19-2-1113 was contained in a title that was repealed and reenacted in 1987. Provisions of that section, as it existed in 1987, are similar to those contained in 19-8-113 as said section existed in 1986, the year prior to the repeal and reenactment of this title.
