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Colorado Department of Education

State department in Colorado, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ5148786 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) is the principal department of the Colorado state government that is responsible for education. It is headquartered in Denver. Members of the Colorado State Board of Education are charged by the Colorado Constitution with the general supervision of the public schools. They have numerous powers and duties specified in state law. Individuals are elected on a partisan basis to serve six-year terms without pay.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Colorado Department of Education” as state department in Colorado, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Colorado, Department and Education.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 70-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Colorado, Department and Education providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Colorado Department of Education”, the useful work is to connect “state department in Colorado, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5148786. VIAF identifies the subject as 122491831. The Library of Congress control number is n80067139. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Colorado Department of Education” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.