About the Colorado Department of Education (CDE)

The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) provides leadership, resources, support and accountability to the state’s *178 school districts, 1,903 schools, over 55,000 teachers and over 4,100 administrators to help them build capacity to meet the needs of the state’s approximately 881,065 public school students.

CDE also provides services and support to boards of cooperative educational services (BOCES), early learning centers, state correctional schools, facility schools, the state’s libraries, adult/family literacy centers, and General Education Development (GED) testing centers reaching learners of all ages. CDE operates the Colorado Talking Book Library that provides supports for people who have vision, print and reading disabilities.