Colorado § 22-11-303 - Accredited or accredited with distinction - performance plan - school district or institute - contents - adoption.

§ 22-11-303. Accredited or accredited with distinction - performance plan - school district or institute - contents - adoption.

(1) (a) In accordance with time frames specified in state board rules, each local school board that is accredited or accredited with distinction shall annually adopt a performance plan for the school district as described in subsection (3) of this section.

(b) The school district accountability committee for the school district shall advise the local school board concerning preparation of the district performance plan and make recommendations to the local school board concerning the contents of the district performance plan. In advising and making its recommendations, the school district accountability committee shall take into account and incorporate any district public school performance, improvement, priority improvement, or turnaround plans received pursuant to sections 22-11-403 to 22-11-406. The local school board shall create and adopt the district performance plan, taking into account the advice and recommendations of the school district accountability committee.

(c) The local school board shall submit the adopted district performance plan to the department for publication on the data portal and shall ensure that the district performance plan is in effect for the school district and the district public schools within the time frames specified in state board rule. The local school board shall also make copies of the district performance plan available to members of the public upon request.

(2) (a) In accordance with time frames specified in state board rules, the institute board, if it is accredited or accredited with distinction, shall annually adopt an institute performance plan as described in subsection (3) of this section.

(b) Prior to creating the institute performance plan, the institute shall compile the institute charter school performance, improvement, priority improvement, and turnaround plans prepared for each institute charter school pursuant to sections 22-11-403 to 22-11-406. The institute shall take the compilation of plans into account in creating and adopting the institute performance plan.

(c) The institute shall submit the adopted institute performance plan to the department for publication on the data portal and shall ensure that the institute performance plan is in effect for the institute and the institute charter schools within the time frames specified in state board rule. The institute shall also make copies of the institute performance plan available to members of the public upon request.

(3) A district or institute performance plan is designed to raise the academic performance of students enrolled in the school district or in the institute charter schools and to ensure that the school district or the institute, following the next annual accreditation review, attains a higher accreditation category or remains in the same accreditation category if the school district or institute is accredited with distinction. At a minimum, each district and institute performance plan must:

(a) Set, reaffirm, or revise, as appropriate, ambitious but attainable targets that the school district, including the district public schools, or the institute, including the institute charter schools, shall attain on the performance indicators. The local school board or the institute shall ensure that the targets are aligned with the statewide targets set by the state board pursuant to section 22-11-201.

(a.5) Identify the strategies to be used in addressing the needs of students enrolled in kindergarten and first, second, and third grade who are identified pursuant to section 22-7-1205 as having significant reading deficiencies and set, reaffirm, or revise, as appropriate, ambitious but attainable targets that the school district, including the district public schools, or the institute, including the institute charter schools, shall attain in reducing the number of students who have significant reading deficiencies and in ensuring that each student achieves grade level expectations in reading;

(b) Identify positive and negative trends for district public schools as a group and individually or for institute charter schools as a group and individually in the levels of attainment by the public schools as a group and individually on the performance indicators, including a description of how the school district or the institute will provide different supports for the school district's public schools or the institute's institute charter schools that are on performance watch;

(c) Assess and prioritize the issues and needs for the school district and for the individual district public schools or for the institute and for the individual institute charter schools that must be addressed to raise the levels of attainment on the performance indicators by the district public schools or the institute charter schools and to improve school readiness in district public schools or institute charter schools that serve students in preschool and kindergarten;

(d) Identify specific, research-based strategies to address the needs and issues identified pursuant to paragraph (c) of this subsection (3);

(e) Identify the local, state, and federal resources that the school district or the institute will use to implement the identified strategies with fidelity; and

(f) Address any other issues required by rule of the state board or raised by the department through the accreditation process pursuant to part 2 of this article.

(4) (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) or paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this section to the contrary, the local school board of a school district or the institute board may adopt and submit to the department a school district performance plan for the school district or the institute as described in subsection (3) of this section every two years so long as the school district or the institute maintains the status of accredited or accredited with distinction.

(b) Repealed.

Source: L. 2009: Entire article R&RE, (SB 09-163), ch. 293, p. 1491, § 1, effective May 21. L. 2012: (3)(a.5) amended, (HB 12-1238), ch. 180, p. 668, § 5, effective July 1. L. 2014: (4) added, (HB 14-1204), ch. 292, p. 1194, § 1, effective May 31. L. 2016: (4)(a) amended and (4)(b) repealed, (HB 16-1440), ch. 316, p. 1276, § 2, effective August 10. L. 2025: IP(3) and (3)(b) amended, (HB 25-1278), ch. 235, p. 1142, § 12, effective May 23.

Editor's note: This section, as it existed prior to 2009, was relocated to § 22-11-604.

Cross references: For the legislative declaration in HB 25-1278, see section 1 of chapter 235, Session Laws of Colorado 2025.