1 Colo. Code Regs. § 301-81-3.0

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 1, January 10, 2025

Section 1 CCR 301-81-3.0 - Standards for Individual Career and Academic Plans

3.1 Each ICAP shall include a career planning, guidance and tracking component and portfolio that reflects, at a minimum, standards as required, but not limited to section 22-2-136, C.R.S.

3.01(1) Documentation of the student's efforts in exploring careers, including: a written postsecondary and workforce goal for the student; yearly benchmarks for reaching that goal; interest surveys that the student completes; and anticipated postsecondary studies;

3.01(2) The student's academic progress including the courses taken, any remediation or credit recovery and any concurrent enrollment credits earned;

3.01(3) The student's progress in visual arts and performing arts courses;

3.01(4) An intentional sequence of courses reflecting progress toward accomplishment of the student's postsecondary and workforce objectives;

3.01(5) Relevant assessment scores; including basic skills placement or assessment tests. For schools districts and charter schools that choose to administer the basic skills placement or assessment tests, the student's scores on the basic skills placement or assessment tests administered pursuant to section 22-30.5-117, 22-30.5-526 or 22-32-109.5(4), C.R.S., any intervention plan created for the student and the student's progress in meeting the intervention plan;

3.01(6) The student's plans for and experiences in Contextual and Service Learning, if applicable;

3.01(7) A record of the student's college applications and resume, or alternative applications as they are prepared and submitted;

3.01(8) The student's postsecondary studies as the student progresses through high school;

3.01(9) The student's progress toward securing scholarships, work-study, student loans and grants;

3.01(10) Other data reflecting student progress toward postsecondary and workforce readiness, including the student's understanding of the financial impact of postsecondary education;

3.01(11) The student's scores on basic skills or assessment tests and based on an analysis of the scores (if a district chooses to administer), the student's level of PWR at the time of the test. If a student's scores indicate that he or she is at risk of being unable to demonstrate readiness prior to or upon high school graduation, school personnel shall work with the student and the student's parent or legal guardian to create an intervention plan that identifies the necessary courses and education support services that the student requires to achieve readiness prior to or upon high school graduation to be prepared to continue into a postsecondary education option.

3.01(12) Assisting the student and the student's parent or legal guardian in exploring apprenticeship programs registered through the United States Department of Labor's Office of Apprenticeship or a state apprenticeship agency recognized by that office.

3.2 Each ICAP shall be accessible to educators, students, parents, legal guardians, and Approved Postsecondary Service Providers; and may be shared in compliance with the "Federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974"; and the student data privacy law section 22-16-101 et seq., C.R.S.

3.02(1) Each ICAP portfolio shall be transferable in print and/or electronic form for internal and external district use so that when a student transfers from one school or district to another, the ICAP follows the student.

3.3 Each public school, in assisting students and parents in creating and maintaining ICAPs shall comply with the requirements of the Federal "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974", 20 U.S.C. 1232g.

3.4 As part of the process of establishing the ICAP, the student and the student's parents must be made aware of the importance of completing the free application for federal student aid or the Colorado application for state financial aid, or successor forms for accessing federal and state financial aid, and be provided help in completing the forms, if requested.

3.5 The ICAP process shall begin no later than ninth grade, but can begin earlier if the district or institute charter school chooses to do so.

3.6 The documentation in the Portfolio can be used to support funding for a student's work-based learning course, pursuant to 1 CCR 301-39. For purposes of supporting funding, the documentation in the Portfolio should include, at minimum, the student's name, the term for which it applied (i.e., Fall 2024), the date the documentation was created/updated, the work-based learning the student pursued; and a description of how the work-based learning course connected to the student's postsecondary workforce or education goals.

3.7 Districts shall comply with all requirements set forth in sections 22-32-109(1)(oo)(I) and 22-32-109.5(4)(b), C.R.S.

3.8 Institute charter schools shall comply with all requirements in sections 22-30.5-117(2) and 22-30.5-525, C.R.S.

1 CCR 301-81-3.0

47 CR 24, December 25, 2024, effective 1/14/2025