Entering the 2021-22 school year, districts are likely to offer families with student enrolled at traditional, brick-and-mortar schools two educational pathways: resuming 100% in-person instruction, similar to the educational program that was offered prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. or a 100% Remote Learning Option as a Result of COVID-19 health concerns.

COVID-19 has profoundly changed how schools and districts operate. Schools have pivoted from in-person to virtual to hybrid learning models to promote student health and safety. Schools are experiencing significant staffing shortages in the effort to meet various instructional demands upon teachers and support staff and accommodate quarantines. Professional learning efforts have been rethought, rescheduled, or paused indefinitely. Fiscal staff continue...

The purpose of this document is to outline requirements for continuing or implementing virtual remote learning options for students in grades K-12 during the 2021-22 school year as schools and districts begin the transition back to normal operation.

The COVID-19 pandemic's impact on health care delivery in Colorado has been far-reaching. In response to these impacts, the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (Department) made a series of changes to its telemedicine policies to ensure continued access to services or members enrolled in Health First Colorado (Colorado's Medicaid program). These changes, made through rule and federal disaster authority, expanded the permissible modes of telemedicine...

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Jared Polis signed House Bill20-1422 to assist Coloradans in need with food relief. This bill provided $600,000 for the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) to administer grants to food banks and food pantries across the state. The need for food banks and food pantries has risen exponentially during the pandemic, with recent polls showing that food insecurity has nearly tripled since the start of...