§ 22-94-102 — Contract to create quality teacher recruitment program

Colorado § 22-94-102

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 22: Education
• Art.: Quality Teacher Recruitment

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(1)
The department shall contract with a vendor, in partnership with a district, to create
a quality teacher recruitment program to recruit, select, train, and retain licensed
teachers to teach in public schools and in school districts in the state that can
demonstrate a historic difficulty in recruiting and retaining licensed teachers. In
contracting with a vendor in partnership with a district, the department shall ensure
that the vendor will place licensed teachers in the district by the beginning of the
2014-15 school year.

(2) In awarding a contract pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the
department shall take into consideration the number of districts in which the vendor
will place licensed teachers, the number of licensed teachers that the vendor will
place, and the potential number of children who will be taught by the licensed
teachers. The department shall ensure that it awards the contract to one or more
vendors that satisfy the following criteria:

(a) The vendor commits to working with one or more school districts in the
state for at least two years to recruit and place licensed teachers;

(b) The vendor has a documented history of recruiting, training, and retaining
licensed teachers in areas of Colorado or other states that have had historic
difficulty in recruiting and retaining licensed teachers, including areas with
educator shortages caused by geographical locations or content areas;

(c) The vendor commits to placing only teachers who are licensed;

(d) The vendor can demonstrate that the teachers it has placed in public
schools and school districts in the past, either in Colorado or in other states,
achieve high academic growth from their students based on state achievement data
or independent studies;

(e) The vendor has a documented history of providing professional
development for teachers, including induction, training, on-going support, and
evaluations; and

(f) The vendor commits to matching no less than one hundred percent of any
money that the department pays through a contract entered into pursuant to
subsection (1) of this section. A vendor that responds to the department's
solicitation for a contract issued pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall
provide written documentation from one or more private or corporate donors, or one
or more school districts or other local governments, that pledge to make gifts,
grants, donations, or other pledges of money, which may include impact income,
success payments, and sponsorship and event income, but shall not include money
received from program participants, to the vendor that, in total, equal at least the
amount that the department has specified will be available for the purposes of a
contract pursuant to subsection (1) of this section for the applicable fiscal year. The
written documentation must also include the date by which the vendor will receive
the gifts, grants, donations, or other money to be used in furtherance of the
requirements of this article 94.

(3) The vendor with which the department contracts to operate a program
pursuant to this article 94 shall use any money paid to the vendor in connection
with the contract to recruit, train, and place licensed teachers to teach in public
schools or school districts in Colorado that have had historic difficulty in recruiting
and retaining licensed teachers. The vendor shall provide the necessary
administrative services to operate the program and shall not use any state money
for these purposes.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2013: Entire article added, (SB 13-260), ch. 236, p. 1145, � 12, effective May 17. L. 2021: (1), IP(2), (2)(a), (2)(b), (2)(c), and (3) amended, (SB 21-185), ch. 246, p. 1338, � 21, effective September 7. L. 2022: (2)(f) amended, (HB 22-1390), ch. 237, p. 1748, � 13, effective May 26.