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News Release 2016 Archive
December 2016
- Board requires statewide English language arts, math tests to be shorter with results available sooner
- Colorado’s accountability system resumes with release of final district ratings
- State Board Appoints Katy Anthes as commissioner
November 2016
- Colorado State Board of Education pushes back deadline for submitting ESSA state plan to feds
- ESSA Hub committee discusses standards, title programs
- Board Vice Chairwoman Schroeder to miss November's State Board of Education meeting due to surgery
October 2016
- Leading With Literacy: Aurora third-grade teacher Jennie Schmaltz receives $25,000 Milken Educator Award
- Colorado principal chosen as 2017 National Principal of the Year
- State Board of Education begins discussions on pursuing new statewide assessment contracts
- Colorado Springs teacher named Teacher of the Year
- Rep. Polis discusses ESSA plan with Colorado's central Hub committee
September 2016
- Six Colorado schools named 2016 Blue Ribbon Schools
- State releases academic growth results from 2016 tests
- 2017 Colorado Teacher of the Year finalists announced
- Colorado State Board of Education to discuss academic standards, PARCC assessments in October
- State board lifts ban on diet soda in high schools
- Colorado's ESSA Hub Committee begins delving into finer details of the new federal education law
- Scores, participation rates on 2016 English language arts and math tests released for schools and districts
August 2016
- State Library and Colorado Parks and Wildlife launch contest to celebrate Library Card Sign-up Month
- Interim commissioner agrees to stay through May 2017
- 2016 State Assessment Score Release - Participation stabilizes, improvement seen but more work to be done
- Colorado State Board of Education to consider healthy beverage policy in September
- Rules and protocols mapped out in ESSA Hub Committee's first meeting
July 2016
- Colorado charter school demographics, academic performance studied in triennial report
- Colorado announces 2016-17 free and reduced price meal income guidelines
- State board directs Aurora Public Schools to renew agreement with Hope Online
June 2016
- Targets set for accountability; student groups to be counted separately
- Groups of historically disadvantaged students to be counted separately for school and district ratings
- Colorado State Board of Education meeting to take place in Pueblo on June 8 & 9
May 2016
- State Board of Education Appoints Dr. Katy Anthes as Interim Commissioner
- Colorado Education Commissioner steps down
- ESSA Listening Tour to visit Thornton on Monday, May 23
- State Board approves innovation zone for Aurora Public Schools
- Fewer students in Colorado have reading deficiencies
- ESSA Listening Tour to visit Durango and Greeley
- Report shows continued growth in Colorado's dual enrollment programs
- Show the love during Teacher Appreciation Week, May 2-6.
April 2016
- Heritage Elementary, Poudre School District honored in national Green Ribbon Schools program.
- CDE and DCSD reach settlement on enrollment audit
- Listening tour adds webinar, stop in Limon to gather broad-based feedback on ESSA law for Colorado.
- State Board agrees to release district- and school-level science test data
- CDE's teacher turnover report now reflects internal promotions in districts
- Education officials to embark on a statewide Every Student Succeeds Act listening tour to gather feedback
- Colorado contracts with vendors of three high school equivalency examinations
March 2016
February 2016
- Colorado students make gains on annual AP test
- Top Education Innovators to Join CDE Leadership
- State board delays decision on READ Act
January 2016
- Colorado graduation rates remain steady; slight rise in number of students dropping out
- State board votes in favor of Heritage Heights Academy in Cherry Creek charter school appeal
- Statewide preschool through 12th-grade student enrollment continues to grow
- 11th-graders to take the ACT in spring 2016
- State Board of Education appoints Richard Crandall as Colorado Commissioner of Education
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