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District Accountability
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Schools in Colorado must comply with The Education Accountability Act of 2009 (SB 09-163 and HB18-1355.
The law authorizes the Colorado Department of Education to conduct an annual review of the performance of public schools and districts in the state and to make recommendations to the State Board of Education concerning the type of school improvement plan to be implemented in each school and the accreditation category for each district.
How schools and districts are measured
Each year, school’s receive a plan assignment type based on a number of factors, including academic achievement, growth on state assessments, as well as postsecondary workforce readiness, which is based in part upon dropout, matriculation, and graduation rates.
How accountability works
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Types of Improvement Plans
Schools receive one of four plan type assignments based on their results:
- Performance: Meets indicators, and required implement a performance plan
- Improvement: Does not meet indicators, required to adopt and implement an improvement plan
- Priority improvement: Does not meet indicators, required to adopt and implement a priority improvement plan. School/district is now subject to the “accountability clock”
- Turnaround: Required to adopt and implement a turnaround plan. School/district is now subject to the “accountability clock”
Learn more about the Colorado Department of Education Unified Improvement Planning.
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What is the 'accountability clock'?
Schools that fall into the “priority improvement” or “turnaround” categories are considered “on the clock.” Those schools must improve their plan assignment type to either an “improvement” or “performance” plan within five years.
Schools must maintain an improvement or performance plan type for two consecutive years before being fully removed from the accountability clock. Those that don’t make these gains receive a directed action from the Colorado State Board of Education, during their fifth year.
Learn more: Colorado Department of Education Accountability Clock fact sheet
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Accountability reports and information
Contact
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Ted Johnson
Executive Director of Continuous Improvement and Innovation
theodore.johnson@
pueblod60.org
