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Senate Bill 10-191 Policy & Rules

Senate Bill 10-191 established new requirements for Colorado educator evaluation systems and required the State Board of Education to promulgate rules concerning the planning, development, implementation, and assessment of a system to evaluate the effectiveness of licensed personnel.  This page provides historical links to the policy and associated rules.

  • Click here to read Senate Bill 10-191
  • Click here to read the final rules (including appeals rules) that were promulgated by the State Board of Education
  • Click here to learn more about the impact on charter schools


Rules Concerning the Process for a Non-probationary Teacher to Appeal a Second Ineffective Rating

To see how the draft rules were revised during the rulemaking process and to read the written comments submitted by the public and CDE responses to those comments, please see the documents below:

General SB 191 Rules Approved by State Board of Education in November 2011

CDE presented proposed draft rules to the State Board of Education on June 8, 2011.  After holding three rulemaking hearings and receiving written comments over the course of five months, the State Board of Education voted to adopt final rules during its board meeting held November 9, 2011. 

To see how the draft rules were revised during the rulemaking process, please see the documents below:

To read the written comments that were submitted to the State Board of Education and responses and recommendations from CDE, please see the documents below: