SB 12-160 Summary

• Modifies Colorado State Advisory Council for Parent Involvement in Education membership to include five parent representatives reflecting significantly represented student populations in the state, with two members from school accountability committees.

• Replaces individual parent information and resource center representatives with two state-based nonprofit organizations specializing in promoting parent involvement of traditionally underserved populations.

• Replaces individual parent training and information center representatives with a single nonprofit organization specializing in promoting parent involvement of students with disabilities.

• Reduces nonprofit organization representatives partnering with funding providers from two to one and removes representatives of statewide organizations representing career and technical education teachers.

• Adds definitions specifying that "student populations that are significantly represented" means populations constituting at least 10 percent of total student enrollment in the state, school, or school district.