2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 23 - POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 23-1-101 — 23-81-102) › EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS (§§ 23-74-101 — 23-81-102) › Article 78 - TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS (§§ 23-78-101 — 23-78-307) › Part 3 - TEACHING FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS (§§ 23-78-301 — 23-78-307) › Section 23-78-303 - Definitions

As used in this part 3, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
"Agreement" means a teaching fellowship program agreement as described in section
23-78-305
.
(2)
"Approved educator preparation program" has the same meaning as provided in section
22-60.5-121 (1)(b)
.
(3)
"Eligible student" means an in-state student, as defined in section
23-7-102
, who is enrolled in the final year of an approved educator preparation program at an institution of higher education.
(4)
"Institution of higher education" or "institution" means:
(a)
A state institution of higher education, as defined in section
23-18-102
;
(b)
A local district college that offers an approved educator preparation program; or
(c)
A private college or university, as defined in section
23-2-102
, that is authorized pursuant to article
2
of this title 23 and offers an approved educator preparation program.
(4.5)
"Remote school district" means a school district in Colorado, irrespective of pupil enrollment, that is more than fifty miles from the nearest large, urbanized area.
(5)
"Rural charter school" means a charter school that is authorized by a rural school district pursuant to part 1 of article
30.5
of title
22
or an institute charter school that is authorized by the state charter school institute pursuant to part 5 of article
30.5
of title
22
and is located within a rural school district.
(6)
"Rural local education provider" means a remote school district, a rural school district, a rural charter school, or a board of cooperative services that operates a public school that is located within a rural school district.
(7)
"Rural school district" means a school district in Colorado that the department of education determines is rural, based on the geographic size of the school district and the distance of the school district from the nearest large, urbanized area.
(8)
"Stipend" means a teaching fellowship stipend distributed to a teaching fellow as wages for employment or as state-based financial aid as provided in section
23-78-306
.
(9)
"Teaching fellow" means an eligible student who participates in a teaching fellowship program.
(10)
"Teaching fellowship program" or "program" means a teaching fellowship program created by a rural local education provider and an institution of higher education pursuant to an agreement as described in section
23-78-305
.
Amended by 2023 Ch. 334,§ 22, eff. 8/7/2023.
Amended by 2021 Ch. 246, § 27, eff. 9/7/2021.
Amended by 2020 Ch. 198, § 5, eff. 6/30/2020.
Renumbered from C.R.S. §
23-3.9-203
and amended by 2019 Ch. 153, § 1, eff. 5/10/2019.
L. 2019: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 19-190), ch. 1814, p. 1814, § 1, effective May 10. L. 2020: (8) amended, (SB 20-158), ch. 971, p. 971, § 5, effective June 30. L. 2021: (4.5) added and (6) amended, (SB 21-185), ch. 1340, p. 1340, § 27, effective September 7.
This section is similar to former § 23-3.9-203 as it existed prior to 2019.
2023 Ch. 334, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).
2021 Ch. 246, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).