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School readiness describes the status and ongoing progress a child makes within the domains of physical well-being and motor development, social and emotional development, language and comprehension development, and cognition and general knowledge. By monitoring each child's progress across multiple domains, teachers, parents, schools, and caregivers can provide needed support to ensure each child's success in school.
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Colorado's rural districts are a major part of the state's 178 school districts yet only comprise 20 percent of the total student population in the state. While these rural school districts often have small student populations, they represent critical aspects of Colorado's education system.
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2013.
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The system is a configurable web-based tool that manages all phases of an outgoing grants management lifecycle including: Requests for Proposals, applications, reviews, award notifications, contract/grant award generation, grantee payments and reports, award modifications, grantee monitoring and grant close-out. A sophisticated and user-friendly reporting application makes building and generating reports quicker and easier.
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2013.
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Meaningful, timely and precise measures of student learning assessments - provide critical data and feedback to determine whether educational goals are being met. Colorado assessments are changing in order to accurately assess student mastery relative to the Colorado Academic Standards.
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2014.
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As Colorado implements new standards and assessments, some adjustments will need to be made to the state's accountability system. The greatest impact will come in the spring of 2015 with the transition from the reading, writing and mathematics Transitional Colorado Assessment Program (TCAP) assessments to the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) assessments that include the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)...
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[2014].
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Traditionally, school officials distribute free and reduced price meal applications to households and make determinations of eligibility of free and reduced-price meals. Provision 2 is an eligibility option for districts that reduces application burdens and simplifies counting and claiming procedures. Provision 2 can be offered for breakfast only, for lunch only or for both school meals.
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2013.
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The power of Colorado's education improvement efforts lies in having a comprehensive educational system consisting of relevant and rigorous standards, aligned and meaningful assessments, excellent teachers and school leaders, and high-performing schools and districts.