Colorado Association of Career & Technical Education Post - Session Legislative Update July 18, 2013 Salazar & Associates L. Antoinette Salazar, Esq. Stacey Lestina
Overview ❖ General Information ❖ Budget ❖ FY 12 - 13 ❖ FY 13 - 14 ❖ Future School Finance ❖ 2013 Legislation ❖ Interim Activity ❖ Interim Committees ❖ Reforms and Ongoing Policy Implementation Update ❖ November 2013 Ballot
General Information ❖ 120 days of session ❖ Convened January 9, 2013 ❖ Adjourned May 8, 2013 ❖ 623 pieces of legislation introduced and debated
FY 2012-13 Budget Bills SB 13-087 Supplemental Funding for CDE ❖ ❖ $ 13.3M additional state funding for School Finance. SB 13-108 Mid-Year School Finance Adjustments ❖ ❖ Amends total program funding to adjust for higher than anticipated increases in the total funded pupil count, increased number of at - risk students, and adjustments to local revenues. ❖ Maintained the negative factor at $ 1,011.5M ( 16.03 % of total program funding ) . ❖ Creates a total program funding floor by increasing the statewide average per pupil funding by the rate of inflation and accounting for enrollment growth in future fiscal years for discussion purposes only in order to build the rest of the state budget. ❖ Clarifies that the State Board of Education shall not designate more ASCENT participants in a given year than are approved in the annual Long Bill.
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SB 13 - 260 Current School Finance
❖ Sens. E. Hudak ( D ) & P . Steadman ( D ) /Rep. M. Hamner ( D ) . ❖ Statewide base per pupil funding is increased to $ 5,954.28 to account for a 1.9 % inflation rate. ❖ For the 2013 - 14 budget year and each budget year thereafter, a district's funded pupil count will not be less than 50 pupils. ❖ Overall funding for School Finance Total Program is $ 5,505,332,024. ❖ Negative factor buy - down: $ 40M. The negative factor grew in FY 13 - 14 by $ 34M.
❖ Charter school capital construction: additional $ 1M. ❖ Adjusted source for "READ Act" funding: $ 16.6M. ❖ Educator e ff ectiveness: $ 200K. ❖ Tier B Special Education Funding: $ 20M. ❖ Modifications to bonus payments for BEST revenues.
SB ¡13-‑213 ¡Future ¡School ¡Finance
❖ Contingent on an unspecified statewide ballot measure increasing state revenue for K - 12 education that must increase state tax revenue for K - 12 education by at least the amount needed to pay for the state share of total program, hold - harmless funding, floor funding, and the teaching and leadership investment. - $ 870M ❖ The amount of revenue generated from such a measure is unknown at this time, however, it would need to increase state tax revenue by about $ 1.12 billion to pay for all the school finance expenditures estimated.
❖ Student Count: Average Daily Membership. ❖ All kindergartners funded at full - day. ❖ All eligible 3 and 4 y/o for the CO Preschool Program will be funded. ❖ English Language Learners will receive weighted funding based on district concentration.
❖ At - risk students are defined as free and reduced lunch students will receive weighted funding based on district concentrations. ❖ Online and ASCENT students receive minimum guaranteed funding. ❖ Floor - funded districts guaranteed 95 % of statewide average per pupil revenue. ❖ $ 441/student Teacher and Leader Investment with the potential for an increase per student if additional revenues are acquired.
❖ Innovation Fund: $ 100M. ❖ Charter School Capital Construction: $ 18M. ❖ Career Ladder Opportunities: $ 6M. ❖ Mandatory Mill Levy Election Support: $ 1M.
❖ Local share adjustments: ❖ Some districts have mandatory mill levy increase or face loss of funding. ❖ 40/60 % ratio is the goal. ❖ Elimination of current cost - of - living factor ($ 950M ) . ❖ Elimination of size factor for districts over 4300.
SB 13 - 213 Revenues Prior to FY 15 - 16?
❖ 40% to the Preschool through 12th grade Education Reserve Fund. ❖ 15% to the Educator Effectiveness Reserve Fund for existing educator effectiveness programs to recruit, prepare, and retain educators. ❖ 5% to the Technology Fund to assist school districts and public schools in purchasing and maintaining technology, including hardware and software, that is needed to support educational reforms and programmatic enhancements. ❖ 40% to the BEST Capital Construction board for financial assistance for public school facility capital construction projects, including up to 50% for facilities for full-day kindergarten and preschool programs.
Curriculum & Instruction
Colorado ASSET SB 13 - 033
Colorado ASSET in brief... Sens. Johnston & Giron / Reps. Duran & Williams Requires an institution of higher education in CO to classify a student as an in - state student for tuition purposes if the student: - Attends a public or private high school in CO for at least 3 years immediately preceding graduation or completion of a GED in CO. Is admitted to a CO institution or attends an institution under a reciprocity agreement. - A student who does not have lawful immigration status must submit an a ffi davit stating that the student has applied for lawful presence or will apply as soon as he or she is able to do so. - These students would not be counted as resident students for any other purpose, but are eligible for the COF stipend.
HB13-1023 - Academic Acceleration School District Policy - Rep. R. Fields (D) & C. Murray (R) / Sen. D. Balmer (R) & A. Kerr (D) ❖ Recommended by the Educational Success Task Force. ❖ Requires each local board of education and the Charter School Institute to adopt a policy concerning academic acceleration for students no later than July 1, 2014. ❖ Procedures may include: process for referral, multiple person decision-making process including parents, best practice guide lines and types of acceleration, guidelines to prevent nonacademic barriers for using acceleration, and an appeals process.
Higher Education
SB13-165 - Community Colleges Limited Number Bachelor Degrees (Sen. N. Todd (D)/ Rep. J. Wilson (R)) ❖ House Education Postponed Indefinitely (04/08/2013) ❖ Would have granted the community college system permission to create 7 bachelor degree programs. ❖ Required a needs-assessment to demonstrate geographical and student need for the creation of new degree programs. ❖ An amendment was offered in House Education to limit the degree programs to bachelors of applied science and examples of programs in demand, including mortuary science, water quality, information technology, construction supervision, multimedia graphic design and dental hygiene. ❖ Programs would also have needed CO Commission of Higher Education approval before they were established.
HB13-1147 - Voter Registration at Public Higher Education Institution (Rep. J. Melton (D) / Sen. L. Newell (D)) ❖ Governor Signed (04/18/2013) ❖ In an effort to increase voter registration, requires a state institution of higher education to provide its students, when a student registers at the institution for the first time, the opportunity to apply for voter registration.
HB13-1194 - In-state Tuition For Military Dependents (Rep. J. Everett (R) / Sen. V. Marble (R)) ❖ Grants in-state tuition at Colorado public higher education institutions to any eligible dependent of a member of the armed forces. ❖ To qualify as a dependent, a spouse must have been the armed forces member's spouse both at the time the member was stationed in Colorado and when the spouse is requesting in-state tuition. For a child of an armed forces member to qualify, they must be under 22 years-of-age and enrolled in a public institution of higher education within 10 years after the member was stationed in Colorado. ❖ The bill also eliminates the current military dependent legal requirement that the student be a graduate of a high school in Colorado. A student who qualifies for the in-state rate under this bill is also eligible to receive College Opportunity Fund (COF) stipends.
HB13-1320 - Support For Meritorious Colorado Students (Rep. D. Hullinghorst (D), M. Waller (R) / Sen. R.Heath (D)) ❖ Beginning in the fall semester of 2013, HB13-1320 allows a qualifying institution of higher education to count any student identified as a "Colorado Scholar" as two resident students for the purposes of calculating the required ratio of resident to non-resident students. ❖ The number of Colorado Scholars that an institution counts in a year cannot be more than 8% of the total number of resident students that the institution counts for either incoming freshmen or for total student enrollment.
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