Colorado Roadmap for AI in K-12 Education

Recommends student AI literacy, including how AI works, hallucinations, bias, data privacy, ethical use and critical evaluation, and calls for connections to digital citizenship and graduation expectations.

AI literacy

Jurisdiction: Colorado · State / DC
Policy status: Guidance current
Implementation phase: Current
Requirement: Recommended
Grades: All K-12
Audience: Students
Learning evidence: Learning recommended
Instrument: State education agency guidance

Dates & implementation

Published August 2024; recommended learning content, without a statewide must-take course or graduation rule.

A legal effective date can precede school implementation. This record documents policy intent or requirements; it does not independently confirm delivery in every classroom.

Funding & support

Funding details not confirmed

Dedicated funding and current award availability are not established in this collection. This does not mean no funding exists.

Evidence & source location

Roadmap pp.8–9: Promoting AI Literacy

Colorado Roadmap for AI in K-12 Educationhttps://www.coloradoedinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Colorado-Roadmap-for-AI-in-K-12-Education_August-2024.pdf ↗

AI-literacy recommendation is a separate instructional action from the roadmap's governance guidance.

Review history

Reviewed against official sources

Source availability checked Oct 4, 2026: Source reopened. This is separate from verification of the policy claim below.

Source review date recorded in database: 2026-10-04

2026-10-03 — Carried forward from the source-linked baseline; topic, grade and evidence-type inventory reviewed. Individual source was not re-opened in this update. 2026-10-04 — Substantive source review: Roadmap pp.8–9 recommends AI literacy and links it to CS, digital citizenship and possible graduation expectations; recommendations are not an enacted course requirement.

Record ID: CO-2024-AILIT-001

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