Colorado Governor’s Letter Re: HB18-1306 Improving Educational Stability For Foster Youth

This document is a letter dated June 1, 2018, from Colorado Governor Hickenlooper to the legislature about a bill signed on May 16, 2018. The bill's provisions order Colorado school districts to ensure educational continuity for students in out-of-home placement. One of the sections, added late in the legislative process, orders school districts to furnish transportation to any pupils, not limited to those in out-of-home placement, enrolled in district schools even if they live in another school district. When signing the bill, the Governor expressed concern about the process by which the new language for . . .