CO SB080

Local school boards and institutes must hold public hearings before adopting school turnaround plans and priority improvement plans, allowing public input on plan contents and grant fund proposals.

Local school boards must submit summaries of public hearing input to the state education commissioner along with adopted turnaround and priority improvement plans for schools receiving Title I federal grants.

School administrators receiving Title I grants for persistently lowest-performing schools are encouraged to inform staff about grant contents, improvement strategy changes, and required departmental reports.

The state review panel must critically evaluate both Title I grant improvement plans and state-required school improvement plans to ensure alignment of strategies and objectives.

Department of Education must publish evaluations and grant progress reports on its data portal and make them publicly available upon request, clearly indicating which schools have aligned plans.