Colorado’s voluntary CS standards cover computing, data, cybersecurity and AI, including evaluating AI and explaining how it works. Local providers choose whether to implement them.
Colorado’s voluntary CS standards cover computing, data, cybersecurity and AI, including evaluating AI and explaining how it works. Local providers choose whether to implement them.
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.
Published August 2024; recommended learning content, without a statewide must-take course or graduation rule.
Colorado’s voluntary CS standards cover computing, data, cybersecurity and AI, including evaluating AI and explaining how it works. Local providers choose whether to implement them.
Colorado’s voluntary CS standards cover computing, data, cybersecurity and AI, including evaluating AI and explaining how it works. Local providers choose whether to implement them.
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.
Published August 2024; recommended learning content, without a statewide must-take course or graduation rule.
Colorado’s voluntary CS standards cover computing, data, cybersecurity and AI, including evaluating AI and explaining how it works. Local providers choose whether to implement them.
Colorado’s voluntary CS standards cover computing, data, cybersecurity and AI, including evaluating AI and explaining how it works. Local providers choose whether to implement them.
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.
Published August 2024; recommended learning content, without a statewide must-take course or graduation rule.
Requires covered public schools and local boards to adopt and publish personal communication-device policies by July 1, 2026. Local policies specify any prohibitions and exceptions; school-provided or school-required laptops/tablets are excluded.
Reviewed against official sources · Oct 4, 2026
Personal devices
Requirement
Required with local discretion
Grades
All K-12
Learning evidence
No student-learning claim
Adopted / approved
May 1, 2025
Legal start
Aug 6, 2025
School implementation
Adopt, implement and post local policies by July 1, 2026; compliant policies adopted by August 31, 2025 are exempt from the new-policy requirement. State resource deadline January 5, 2026.
Recommends transparent and ethical local AI policy, responsible tool evaluation, data-privacy safeguards, human-centered use and ongoing stakeholder learning.
Reviewed against official sources · Oct 4, 2026
AI governance
Requirement
Recommended
Grades
All K-12
Learning evidence
No student-learning claim
School implementation
Published August 2024; recommendations for local policy design and review, not a statewide effective-date requirement.
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.
Reviewed against official sources · Oct 4, 2026
AI literacy
Requirement
Recommended
Grades
All K-12
Learning evidence
Learning recommended
School implementation
Published August 2024; recommended learning content, without a statewide must-take course or graduation rule.
Requires the State Board to revise reading, writing and civics standards to identify the media-literacy knowledge and skills students should acquire, and requires a state resource bank and technical assistance.
Reviewed against official sources · Oct 4, 2026
Media literacy
Requirement
Required
Grades
Elementary through secondary
Learning evidence
Standards development required
Adopted / approved
May 27, 2021
School implementation
Signed May 27, 2021. State standards revisions and resource bank are required; districts are explicitly not required to adopt resource-bank materials.
Colorado’s voluntary CS standards cover computing, data, cybersecurity and AI, including evaluating AI and explaining how it works. Local providers choose whether to implement them.
No records in this section have been published. This is an evidence gap in the collection, not a determination that no relevant action exists.
Proposals under consideration
No records in this section have been published. This is an evidence gap in the collection, not a determination that no relevant action exists.
Selected district examples
No records in this section have been published. This is an evidence gap in the collection, not a determination that no relevant action exists.
Historical records
No records in this section have been published. This is an evidence gap in the collection, not a determination that no relevant action exists.
Evidence coverage & remaining research
Consistent 16-dimension checklist
Coverage & remaining research
Inventory reviewed October 3, 2026. 8/16 dimensions have published evidence of any status. Every dimension remains open to additional sources and superseding actions.
0 current district actions · 0 future, proposed, or historical
Social-media literacy
Not yet established
Research gap · no absence conclusion
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