The Colorado Department of Education developed this resource guide to support schools and districts that engage external service providers as part of their school improvement process. A number of schools and districts are incorporating external expertise into their turnaround or transformation strategies with support from School Improvement Grants or Tiered Intervention Grant. Regardless of whether services are purchased with grant funds or per pupil revenue, spending public money requires the highest level of transparency and prudent decision-making when it comes to purchasing processes. This guide is designed to inform best practice when it comes to identifying potential providers, issuing a request for proposal based on identified needs, evaluating potential providers and their proposals, contracting with an external provider, and evaluating and monitoring the providers ongoing performance.
The purpose of this document is to assist the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) develop a technical implementation strategy to further define the scope for the CAPTURE initiative of the 2009 State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) Grant. Our research centered on three primary areas: assessing the overall data exchange model, defining the concept and providing an implementation plan. At the local level, Colorado districts struggle to maintain a comprehensive, accurate, and timely set of data systems that can meet the needs of the state reporting requirements.
The purpose of this handbook is to provide an outline of the requirements and responsibilities for state, district and school stakeholders in the state's accountability process established by the Education Accountability Act of 2009 (SB 09-163).
Highlights from presentations by Judith Martinez, Bill Milliken, Deirdre Pilch, Marlene Darwin, and Gregg Vasquez at the "Dropout Prevention & Student Engagement summit."
This document was developed to provide useful information to assist districts and approved charter school applicants in writing effective charter school contracts. Because the charter contract is the foundational agreement that establishes a charter schools autonomy and accountability and the districts rights and obligations, it is essential that the contract meet legal requirements and adhere to best practices.
