The general assembly finds that, after studying the teacher shortage issue in Colorado, the department of higher education and the department of education concluded that one strategy for addressing the issue is to promote collaboration among educator preparation programs, alternative teacher programs, school districts, boards of cooperative services, and public schools to facilitate more effective preparation, placement, and retention of educators. The general assembly finds, therefore, that it is appropriate to create a grant program to support educator preparation partnerships involving educator preparation programs, alternative teacher programs, school districts, boards of cooperative services, and public schools to provide targeted educator preparation initiatives that improve the quality and applicability of educator preparation and the intentional placement of newly trained educators with school districts and public schools.
Source: L. 2019: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 19-190), ch. 153, p. 1811, § 1, effective May 10.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 23-1-120.9 (1) as it existed prior to 2019.