(1) There is created in the department the concurrent enrollment advisory board. The board consists of members appointed as provided in this section and has the powers and duties specified in this section. The board is a type 2 entity, as defined in section 24-1-105, and exercises its powers and performs its duties and functions under the department, the commissioner of education, and the state board. (2) The board consists of the following members: (a) Three representatives from the state system of elementary and secondary education appointed by the commissioner of education, including at least one member who represents a rural public school or school district and at least one member who represents a school district where a relatively low percentage of recent high school graduates have enrolled in institutions of higher education; (b) Five representatives from the state systems of higher education appointed by the executive director of the department of higher education, including two members who represent the Colorado community college system, one member who represents a public, four-year institution of higher education, one member who represents a local district college, and one member who represents an area technical college; (c) Five representatives appointed by the governor, including at least one member who has experience in postsecondary student counseling, student admissions, and financial aid; at least one member who has experience in public budgeting and finance; a parent of a student enrolled in public school; and a student enrolled in high school; (d) The director of accreditation and regional services within the department or his or her designee; and (e) Two representatives of postsecondary career and technical education programs, one of whom is the director of career and technical education within the state system of community and technical colleges and one of whom represents the state system of elementary and secondary education and is appointed by the state board for community colleges and occupational education. (3) Each appointing authority shall make its initial appointments no later than October 1, 2009. The governor shall make the initial appointment of a parent and student pursuant to subsection (2)(c) of this section no later than October 1, 2019. Each member of the board serves at the pleasure of the member's appointing authority for a term of three years. The appropriate appointing authority shall fill any vacancies arising during a member's term on the board. (4) The commissioner of education shall call the first meeting of the board to be held no later than November 15, 2009. At its first meeting, and annually thereafter, the board shall select from among its members a person to serve as chair of the board. The board shall meet upon call of the chair as often as necessary to accomplish its duties as specified in this section. (5) The board members shall serve without compensation and without reimbursement for expenses. Upon request of the board chair, the department, to the extent possible within existing resources, shall provide meeting space, equipment, and staff services as may be necessary for the board to carry out its duties under this section. (6) The board has the following duties: (a) Establishing guidelines for the administration of the ASCENT program pursuant to section 22-35-108 (4) and the TREP program pursuant to section 22-35-108.5 (4); (b) Advising and assisting local education providers and institutions of higher education in preparing cooperative agreements; (c) Making recommendations as necessary to the general assembly, the state board, and the commission concerning the improvement or updating of state policies relating to concurrent enrollment programs, including but not limited to recommendations of policies that will allow every local education provider in the state to have adequate resources to enter into at least one cooperative agreement; (d) On or before December 1, 2022, considering and making recommendations to the state board and the education committees of the house of representatives and senate, or any successor committees, regarding the feasibility of a waiver process whereby a local education provider, on behalf of a qualified student, could apply to the department for a waiver of certain provisions of section 22-35-108, which waiver would allow the local education provider to designate the student as an ASCENT program participant in the second year following the year in which the qualified student was enrolled in the twelfth grade of the local education provider so long as the qualifying student: (I) Was so designated in the year directly following the year in which the qualified student was enrolled in the twelfth grade of the local education provider; (II) Requires fifteen or fewer credit hours of postsecondary course work to achieve a postsecondary credential; and (III) Is eligible for free or reduced-price lunch pursuant to the federal "Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act", 42 U.S.C. sec. 1751 et seq.; (e) Submitting to the state board for its approval or disapproval recommendations made pursuant to paragraphs (c) and (d) of this subsection (6); (f) Collaborating with persons from the department of education, the department of labor and employment, the community college system, the local district colleges, area technical colleges, and the Colorado work force development council created in section 24-46.3-101, C.R.S., to create a set of standard recommendations to advise and assist local education providers in creating cooperative agreements to include course work related to apprenticeship programs and internship programs as options within a local education provider's concurrent enrollment program. The board shall complete the standard recommendations and make them available to local education providers by January 1, 2016. (g) To work with the department of education, the department of higher education, and the community college system that supports the enrollment of first-generation students, low- income students, and students of color in concurrent enrollment programs. (7) On or before December 1, 2010, and on or before December 1 each year thereafter, the board shall prepare a report and submit it to the state board and the commission. The report, at a minimum, shall include: (a) Any guidelines that the board has established pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection (6) of this section; and (b) Any recommendations that the board makes pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection (6) of this section. (8) (a) This section is repealed, effective September 1, 2027. (b) Prior to said repeal, the board shall be reviewed as provided in section 2-3-1203.
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