Colorado Revised Statutes Title 22. Education § 22-2-136. Additional duty--state board--individual career and academic plans--standards--rules

(1)(a) The state board shall promulgate rules pursuant to the “State Administrative Procedure Act”, article 4 of title 24, to establish standards for individual career and academic plans for students enrolled in the public schools in the state.

(b) An individual career and academic plan must be designed to assist a student and the student's parent or legal guardian in exploring the postsecondary career and educational opportunities available to the student, including apprenticeship programs registered through the United States department of labor's office of apprenticeship or a state apprenticeship agency recognized by that office; aligning course work and curriculum; applying to postsecondary education institutions; securing financial aid; and ultimately entering the workforce. As part of the process of establishing the individual career and academic plan, 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.

(a) Each individual career and academic plan includes a career planning and guidance component and a portfolio that reflects, at a minimum:

(b) Each individual career and academic plan is accessible to educators, students, and parents; and

(c) Each public school, in assisting students and parents in creating and maintaining the individual career and academic plans, is in compliance with the requirements of the federal “Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974”, 20 U.S.C. sec. 1232g.