Colorado § 22-63-205 - Exchange of teachers - exchange educator interim authorization.
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§ 22-63-205. Exchange of teachers - exchange educator interim authorization.
(1) The board of a school district has authority to provide for the exchange of teachers with a school district in this state or in another state or with a foreign government or agency thereof. The department of education and boards are authorized and urged to effect such exchanges to achieve the goal of equal educational opportunity within Colorado, and they are further authorized to cooperate with appropriate federal agencies involved in such exchange programs. The department of education shall create an exchange educator interim authorization for qualified exchange educators pursuant to section 22-60.5-111.
(2) The salary of the teacher exchanged may be paid by the school district which authorized the exchange and, if so, said teacher shall be paid at not less than the rate to which he would otherwise be entitled had he performed services in said school district. A teacher exchanged pursuant to this section shall be deemed, during the period of exchange, to be in the employ of the school district which authorized the exchange, and such teacher shall be subject to the provisions and benefits of retirement, insurance, and workers' compensation as if performing services within said school district.
Source: L. 90: Entire article R&RE, p. 1122, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2008: (1) amended, p. 1365, § 3, effective May 27.
Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former § 22-63-109 as it existed prior to 1990.
(2) Subsection (2) was originally numbered as section 22-63-109 (2), and the amendments to it in House Bill 90-1160 were harmonized with subsection (2) as it appears in this section when the entire article was repealed and reenacted in House Bill 90-1159.
ANNOTATION
District cannot preclude right to tenure by transfer. The "Teacher Employment, Dismissal, and Tenure Act of 1967" has no statutory authority empowering a school district to transfer a teacher's teaching contract to another school district in order to truncate her statutory rights to tenure. Day v. Prowers County Sch. Dist. RE-1, 725 P.2d 14 (Colo. App. 1986) (decided under § 22-63-109 as it existed prior to the 1990 repeal and reenactment of this article).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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