Colorado Revised Statutes Title 22. Education § 22-54-123.5. School breakfast program--appropriation--low-performing schools--definition

(1)(a) For the 2002-03 budget year and each budget year thereafter, the general assembly may appropriate by separate line item an amount to assist school food authorities that are providing a school breakfast program through participation in programs authorized under the federal “Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act”, 42 U.S.C. sec. 1751 et seq., or the federal “Child Nutrition Act of 1966”, 42 U.S.C. sec. 1771 et seq. The department of education shall develop procedures to appropriately allocate and disburse the funds among participating school food authorities.

(b) Each school district that receives moneys pursuant to this section shall use such moneys to create, expand, or enhance the school breakfast program in each low-performing school of the receiving district with the goal of improving the academic performance of the students attending such schools.

(c) A district charter school, an institute charter school, or a charter school collaborative that is a school food authority shall only be eligible to receive moneys pursuant to this section if it is a low-performing school. A district charter school or an institute charter school that is a school food authority that receives moneys pursuant to this section shall use such moneys to create, expand, or enhance its school breakfast program with the goal of improving the academic performance of the students attending the district charter school or the institute charter school.

(d) Deleted by Laws 2010, Ch. 419, § 47, eff. Aug. 11, 2010.

(a) “Low-performing school” means a school that is required to implement a priority improvement or turnaround plan pursuant to section 22-11-405 or 22-11-406, respectively, or is subject to restructuring pursuant to section 22-11-210.

(b) “School food authority” means: