The highly effective school library program rubric guides administrators and teacher librarians in sustaining and growing the school's library program. While this document is designed to align with the look and feel of CDE's State Model Evaluation System for Teachers, this is not to be considered a replacement of that rubric; rather, it can serve as a supplement to that rubric. This can also be used as a supplemental rubric in districts that are using their own unique evaluation system for school staff. This also fulfills the statutory requirement for services standards in ʹ24-90-105(2)(a.3) to guide development and improvement of school libraries.
The Colorado Resiliency and Recovery Office (CRRO) convened 18 stakeholders from federal, state, local government, non-government organizations and the private sector. All participants were asked to provide their professional perspective throughout their discussions to support CRRO and the State of Colorado's efforts to develop and implement the COResiliency Program.
This issue brief outlines the licensing requirements involved in the distribution and retail sales of alcohol for off-site consumption. It also provides an overview of which states permit alcohol sales in grocery stores.
The National Honey Bee Health Survey, sponsored by USDA and the Bee Informed Partnership, began several years ago to document the presence or absence of bee diseases, parasites and pests of honey bees. The Survey also samples pollen for the presence of over 174 pesticides.
In 2009, the Colorado General Assembly passed legislation titled the Colorado Healthy Forests and Vibrant Communities Act (HB09-1199), which increases efforts to address wildfire risk, provides resources to the Colorado State Forest Service to augment its technical outreach capabilities, and provides loans and grants for market-based and forest treatment solutions to reduce wildfire risk. With this legislation, the CSFS has been able to increase services to individuals, communities and organizations across Colorado.
