HB 26-1299

HB 26-1299, a Colorado bill that has been signed into law, aims to reduce regulatory burdens on education providers. It changes how missing children information is shared by requiring the state bureau of investigation to send lists directly to the Department of Education instead of individual schools. The bill also removes requirements for paper and pencil assessments, allows smaller school networks to submit a single plan, exempts some schools from personnel evaluations if they are not required, and prevents the Department of Education from making voluntary data requests mandatory or tying them to unrelated benefits. This law is now in effect and will impact how educational institutions operate in Colorado.

Official Summary

The act requires the Colorado bureau of investigation to transmit a list of missing children to the Colorado department of education (department) instead of each school district and requires the department to notify the bureau if the department's list of enrolled students includes information about a missing child.     The act repeals the requirement for a school district, board of cooperative services, district charter school, or institute charter school to have paper and pencil assessment policies for state-administered assessments in public schools.     The act allows a school district or a charter school network with 1,200 students or fewer to submit a single plan to satisfy school district, school network, or school accreditation plan requirements.     The act prohibits the department from representing as mandatory a voluntary data collection request to a school district, the state charter school institute, or a public school and prohibits the department from conditioning any benefit unrelated to a specific grant on the completion of a voluntary data collection request.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

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