§ 22-2-402 — Definitions

Colorado § 22-2-402

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 22: Education
• Art.: Department - Commissioner

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As used in this part 4, unless the context otherwise
requires:

(1) Approved facility school means an educational program that is operated
by a facility to provide educational services to students placed in the facility and
that, pursuant to section 22-2-407 (2), has been placed on the list of facility schools
that are approved to receive reimbursement for providing educational services to
students placed in a facility.

(2) Department means the department of education created and existing
pursuant to section 24-1-115, C.R.S.

(3) Facility means a day treatment center, residential child care facility or
other facility licensed by the department of human services pursuant to section 26-6-905, a hospital licensed by the department of public health and environment
pursuant to section 25-1.5-103, or a specialized day school authorized by the office.

(3.3) Facility student, as used in section 22-2-407.5, means a student who
is in an approved facility school, eligible facility school, or school district setting,
and who is receiving or requires specialized services, and whose educational needs
may be beyond the delivery capacity of the student's current educational setting.

(3.8) Model means the sustainable educational continuum designed to
meet the educational needs of facility students in the target population as defined
by the work group pursuant to section 22-2-407.5.

(3.9) Office means the office of facility schools created within the
department pursuant to section 22-2-403.

(4) Placed in a facility means a student is in a facility due to:

(a) A court order or other action by a public entity in Colorado; or

(b) The student's determination, if the student is a homeless child as defined
in section 22-1-102.5.

(4.5) Public entity means a public entity responsible for referring students
to or placing students in out-of-home, day treatment, residential treatment,
hospital, and specialized day school placements with providers.

(5) School district means a school district organized and existing pursuant
to law but does not include a local college district.

(5.5) Specialized day school means a school that serves students who are
referred to or placed by a public entity or placed in a specialized day school by a
hospital, health-care provider, behavioral health provider, case management
service, court, division of youth services, school district, county department of
human or social services, or other state agency because the students' behavioral
and educational needs are beyond the capacity of the students' current educational
placement due to the severity of the students' needs or the requirement for highly
specialized programming.

(6) State board of education or state board means the state board of
education created and existing pursuant to section 1 of article IX of the state
constitution.

(7) Student means a child or youth who has attained three years of age on
or before August 1 and who is under twenty-one years of age.

(7.5) Student with exceptionally severe or specialized needs means a
student with exceptionally severe or specialized needs that a school district is
unable to serve adequately within the school district's regular or specialized
educational services.

(8) Repealed.

(9) Work group means the work group created and convened pursuant to
section 22-2-407.5.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2008: Entire part added, p. 1376, � 1, effective May 27. L. 2021: (3.3), (3.8), and (9) added, (SB 21-274), ch. 341, p. 2224, � 2, effective June 25. L. 2022: (3) amended, (HB 22-1295), ch. 123, p. 838, � 47, effective July 1. L. 2023: (3) amended, (3.9), (4.5), (5.5), and (7.5) added, and (8) repealed, (SB 23-219), ch. 88, p. 316, � 2, effective April 20.