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Colorado

Adoption Status

Adoption Status: Adopted with Modifications
Adoption Date: 08/30/2010

Implementation Status

Implementation Type: Full
Implementation Timeline: 2013-14

Assessment

Assessment Consortia: State Issued

Colorado Details

Name of Standards: Colorado Academic Standards
Standards Numbering Example: Colorado has state-specific numbering
Common Core Numbering Example: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1
Colorado Numbering Example: MA.1.S.1.GLE.1
State Documents: English/Language Arts
Mathematics
Last Reviewed: 07/26/2017

Colorado News

State releases student growth scores from PARCC exams (September 24, 2016)

 

Colorado Officials Hit the Road to Gather Views on ESSA (May 12, 2016)

How Colorado districts comply with state law speaks volumes about their views on testing (April 30, 2016)

Why Colorado’s testing opt-out movement could struggle to build on 2015’s big numbers (April 27, 2016)

State’s student assessment scores generally positive here (February 25, 2016)

PARCC results set new ‘baseline’ (January 9, 2016)

Colorado juniors will take SAT college-entrance exam, not ACT (December 23, 2015)

It’s too early to walk away from school reforms (December 20, 2015)

Skipped tests could hurt Colo. school funding (June 12, 2015)

More than 50,000 Colorado students wrap up first part of new state PARCC tests (April 3, 2015)

PARCC testing debuts in Colorado; glitches in Sheridan, Aurora (March 3, 2015)

Colorado Board of Ed Endorses Bill to Reject Common Core State Standards, Test (February 2, 2015)

Common Core, a Common Concern for Parents and Educators (November 25, 2014)