State

Colorado

Standards set by Colorado Department of Education (Colorado Academic Standards adopted by the Colorado State Board of Education) · official standards page

Common Core position

MathematicsAdapted / renamedELAAdapted / renamed

Adopted CCSS August 2010 and incorporated it fully into the Colorado Academic Standards (December 2010); CCSS-based content retained through the 2018 revision (2020 CAS).

Current frameworks

Mathematics

2020 Colorado Academic Standards: Mathematics (adopted 2018)

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Common Core, adapted

English Language Arts

2020 Colorado Academic Standards: Reading, Writing, and Communicating (adopted 2018)

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Common Core, adapted

Science

2020 Colorado Academic Standards: Science (adopted 2018; NGSS adopted as the CAS for Science minus the separate engineering standard)

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NGSS, adapted

Social Studies

Colorado Academic Standards: Social Studies (adopted November 2022; district implementation by fall 2024)

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State-specific

Social studies scope & sequence

U.S. Historygr 5gr 8gr 9-12

State / local historygr 4

Civics & governmentgr 9-12

World historygr 9-12

Confidence: high · source document

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