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A student receives a meal at a summer lunch site in Loveland last summer.

News Release - Community organizations invited to host summer meal program sites
Colorado's Summer Meals Program seeks sponsors, sites, and state partners to continue to ensure children and teens have access to healthy meals during the summer break. In 2024, sponsors at 626 sites served more than 1.9 million meals through this USDA-funded program administered by the Colorado Department of Education's School Nutrition Unit. For the summer of 2025, eligible families can also receive support through the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer Program.

01/31/2025 - 2:17pm

SBE Board Chair Rebecca McClellan with Colorado Teacher of the Year Janet Damon.

News Release - Colorado State Board of Education Chair McClellan congratulates Colorado’s finalist for National Teacher of the Year
State Board of Education Chair Rebecca McClellan issued a statement congratulating Colorado Teacher of the Year Janet Damon on being named a finalist for National Teacher of the Year.

01/30/2025 - 11:38am

2025 Colorado Teacher of the Year Janet Damon poses for a photo at her Denver school.

News Release - 2025 Colorado Teacher of the Year Janet Damon named as finalist for National Teacher of the Year award
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) today announced its finalists for the 2025 National Teacher of the Year award. One of those four finalists is Colorado’s 2025 Teacher of the Year Janet Damon. Damon is a history teacher at DELTA High School in Denver Public Schools and has been an educator for over 25 years.

01/30/2025 - 11:01am

Student in a black shirt raises her hand in an Englewood School District classroom.

News Release -- Colorado students continue to outperform the nation on most NAEP assessments, but performance has not passed pre-pandemic levels
According to 2024 NAEP assessment results released today, Colorado eighth graders outperformed their national peers in both reading and math, while fourth graders surpassed the national public average in reading and matched the national public average in math.

01/29/2025 - 7:33am

Graduating student from Rangeview High School smiles for the camera.

News Release - Colorado's four-year graduation and dropout rates show steady improvements; continued gaps across student groups
The Colorado Department of Education today released student graduation and dropout data from the 2023-24 school year. Results show Colorado students continuing to make progress with the four-year graduation rate improving by 1.1% points to 84.2% – the state’s highest in more than a decade. Student drop-out rates are also declining; rates decreased by 0.2% points to 1.9% for 2023-24. Even with improvements in both rates, however, significant disproportionalities persist across student groups.

01/22/2025 - 9:06am

Excited students react to the ESEA Award at Remington Elementary in District 49.

News Release --Colorado Department of Education presents ESEA Award to Remington Elementary in District 49
This afternoon, Colorado Education Commissioner Susana Córdova joined District 49 Superintendent Peter Hilts and Principal Cassi MacArthur to celebrate Remington Elementary School receiving an Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Distinguished Schools of Excellence Award.

01/16/2025 - 3:00pm

News Release --Six Colorado educators receive Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
Earlier this week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced its 2025 recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). This year’s list of award winners included six Colorado educators. The PAEMST is considered the nation’s highest honor for K-12 mathematics and science teachers and was given to 336 teachers from across the country.

01/16/2025 - 8:31am

Students at Governor's Ranch Elementary prepare for the first day of school last August. The state experienced a slight drop in overall enrollment in the 2024-25 school year.

News Release -- Colorado’s October 2024 student count shows slight declines in pre-kindergarten and early high school grades; increased diversity
The Colorado Department of Education today released data from the state's October student count taken in the fall of 2024; this information is used to determine state funding for public schools. The data shows a slight decline in PK-12 student enrollment with a total of 881,065 students, a decrease of 0.1% compared to October 2023.

01/15/2025 - 10:06am

Students read at Kenton Elementary School in Aurora.

News Release -- Colorado State Board of Education hears updates on multilingual learners and the READ Act
The Colorado State Board of Education’s first meeting of the new year included the Colorado Department of Education’s State of State for Multilingual Learners report, a four-year independent evaluation and program update on the READ Act, and a rulemaking hearing for the administration of the Exceptional Children’s Educational Act (ECEA). The board will consider ECEA rule changes during its next meeting in February.

01/09/2025 - 5:18pm

New board members pose after they had been sworn in to be State Board of Education members

News Release - State Board of Education welcomes four new board members
In a ceremony held just before its January meeting, the Colorado State Board of Education welcomed four new members. Colorado Supreme Court Justice Richard Gabriel performed the swearing-in for Kristi Burton Brown (CD 4), Kathy Gebhardt (CD 2), Yazmin Navarro (CD 8); and Sherri Wright (CD 3). Navarro completed her oath of office in both English and Spanish and is the first board member in recent memory to do a bilingual oath.

01/08/2025 - 4:32pm

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