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CO SB151

Bill

Status

Passed

6/18/2021

Primary Sponsor

Janet Buckner

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Origin

Senate

2021 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Local education providers must submit information about their core and supplemental reading curriculum, evidence-based instructional programs, and reading intervention services to the Colorado Department of Education for public posting on its website.

  • The Department of Education must post submitted curriculum and program information in a user-friendly format on its website in a location clearly identified as relating to student literacy or the "Colorado READ Act."

  • Local education providers must include on their websites and school-level websites an easily identifiable link to the Department's posted reading program materials relating to student literacy or the "Colorado READ Act."

  • The Department must notify local education providers of the specific internet address where the information is posted and update it in a timely manner as providers submit updates.

  • The state appropriated $91,944 from the early literacy fund to the Department of Education for the 2021-22 fiscal year, based on 0.3 FTE, to support early literacy program administration and technical support.

Legislative Description

Literacy Curriculum Transparency

Last Action

Governor Signed

6/18/2021

Committee Referrals

Committee of the Whole5/26/2021
Appropriations5/6/2021
Education4/1/2021
Education3/1/2021

Full Bill Text

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