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Colorado Department of Education Open Records Request Form

Please use this form to submit requests for records under the Colorado Open
Records Act. You will receive a copy of your submission to the email
address that you provide.

A request is considered "received" by CDE on the working day that it is
submitted. Any request received after 4:30 pm or any day CDE is officially
closed will be considered received as of the following working day. CDE
shall make every effort to respond within three working days, as provided
by § 24-72-203(3)(b), CRS This three-day period begins on the first working
day following receipt of the request.

The following is an example of a response timeline assuming that there are
no holidays:

If a request is received before 4:30 pm on Tuesday, the three-day period
would begin at 8 am on Wednesday and end at 5 pm on Friday.

If a request is received after 4:30 pm on Tuesday, the three-day period
would begin at 8 am on Thursday and end at 5 pm on the following Monday.

The department may extend its response period up to seven working days if
it finds extenuating circumstances exist and communicates that finding to
the requestor in writing, as described in § 24-72-203(3)(b), CRS The
extension period would begin on the fourth working day following receipt of
the request.

Visit the CDE website for more information about our CORA policy and
process.

Email *

requests@muckrock.com

Name of requestor *

Alex Kane

Requestor's organization (if applicable)

MuckRock News

Daytime phone number

not listed

What records are you requesting?

To the extent possible, please be specific in terms of topics/key words,
date ranges, and names of individuals or departments. This helps to
identify the responsive records more quickly.
*

To Whom It May Concern: Pursuant to the Colorado Open Records Act, I hereby
request the following records: Any contracts between the Education
Department and the Institute for Curriculum Services, and the content of
any professional development materials or presentations prepared by the
Institute Curriculum Services for the Education Department since October
7th, 2022. I also request any email communication between Education
Department employees and employees of the Institute for Curriculum Services
since October 7th, 2022. The requested documents will be made available to
the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial
purposes. In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you
would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I
would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if
available or CD-ROM if not. Thank you in advance for your anticipated
cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to
this request within 3 business days, as the statute requires. Sincerely,
Alex Kane

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Marco Ramirez
Information Assistant
Communications Division
P 720.237.8994
201 E. Colfax Avenue, Denver, CO 80203
Ramirez_Marco@cde.state.co.us | www.cde.state.co.us
Email cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, email cannot be used to transfer files containing personally identifiable information of educators or students. Contact the intended recipient to mutually determine enhanced security options for transferring such information.

Good Afternoon, Alex Kane-

Our procedure outlines how to properly submit a request to The Colorado Department of Education (link below):

https://www.cde.state.co.us/communications/corapolicy#procedureforrequests

To better assist you with future requests you can use the below form (link provided):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflZBlLha8J7Ezhxv8YfcRacQMP2qc7GekNeLdSpXSEmHLT8g/viewform

We have received your Monday, November 25th 2024 open records request seeking:

To Whom It May Concern: Pursuant to the Colorado Open Records Act, I hereby request the following records: Any contracts between the Education Department and the Institute for Curriculum Services, and the content of any professional development materials or presentations prepared by the Institute Curriculum Services for the Education Department since October 7th, 2022. I also request any email communication between Education Department employees and employees of the Institute for Curriculum Services since October 7th, 2022. The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes. In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not. Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 3 business days, as the statute requires. Sincerely, Alex Kane

A request is considered "received" by the Colorado Department of Education the day an e-mail, fax or letter containing a request is opened. A request received after 4:30 p.m. or any day CDE is officially closed will be considered received as of the following working day.

CDE shall make every effort to respond within three working days, as provided by § 24-72-203(3)(b), C.R.S. The three-working-day response time begins the first working day following receipt of the request. NOTE: CDE will be closed Wednesday 27th through Friday, November 29th 2024. We will reopen on Monday, December 2nd , 2024. Your open records request will be due by the end of the day Monday, December 2nd 2024

The department may extend its response period up to seven working days if it finds extenuating circumstances exist and communicates that finding to the requestor in writing, as described in § 24-72-203(3)(b), C.R.S.

If you have further questions about CDE's Colorado Open Records Act policy, you can find information here: https://www.cde.state.co.us/communications/corapolicy

For additional questions, please contact Communications Director Jeremy Meyer at meyer_jeremy@cde.state.co.us<mailto:meyer_jeremy@cde.state.co.us>.

Marco Ramirez
Information Assistant
Communications Division
P 720.237.8994
201 E. Colfax Avenue, Denver, CO 80203
Ramirez_Marco@cde.state.co.us | www.cde.state.co.us
Email cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, email cannot be used to transfer files containing personally identifiable information of educators or students. Contact the intended recipient to mutually determine enhanced security options for transferring such information.

Good morning,

We are currently working on your open records request. In order to search our email database for correspondence with employees from the Institute for Curriculum Services, we will need you to provide the user name and/or the domain name. For example, in the email address "billyjoe@happycompany.com", "billyjoe" is the username, "happycompany" is the domain name, and ".com" is the extension.

Additionally, we have emails going back only 13 months from the current date. We will continue processing your request when we receive this information.

Thank you.

Jeremy Meyer
Director of Communications
Communications Division
P 720-668-6434
201 East Colfax Avenue, Room 208, Denver, CO 80203
Meyer_Jeremy@cde.state.co.us | www.cde.state.co.us
Email cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, email cannot be used to transfer files containing personally identifiable information of educators or students. Contact the intended recipient to mutually determine enhanced security options for transferring such information.

Good afternoon,

We are in receipt of your Nov. 25 open records request seeking

“Any contracts between the Education Department and the Institute for Curriculum Services, and the content of any professional development materials or presentations prepared by the Institute Curriculum Services for the Education Department since October 7th, 2022. I also request any email communication between Education Department employees and employees of the Institute for Curriculum Services since October 7th, 2022.”

We do not have any contracts or content of any professional development materials by Institute Curriculum Services since Oct. 7, 2022. We have requested that you provide us with the user names and/or domain names for an email search. Until you provide us with that information, we are unable to respond to that part of your request.

We will consider this request closed.

Jeremy Meyer
Director of Communications
Communications Division
P 720-668-6434
201 East Colfax Avenue, Room 208, Denver, CO 80203
Meyer_Jeremy@cde.state.co.us | www.cde.state.co.us
Email cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, email cannot be used to transfer files containing personally identifiable information of educators or students. Contact the intended recipient to mutually determine enhanced security options for transferring such information.

Good afternoon,

We are in receipt of your Nov. 25, 2024, open records request seeking:

Any contracts between the Education Department and the Institute for Curriculum Services, and the content of any professional development materials or presentations prepared by the Institute Curriculum Services for the Education Department since October 7th, 2022. I also request any email communication between Education Department employees and employees of the Institute for Curriculum Services since October 7th, 2022. The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

We have no purchase orders, contracts, and vendor agreements with the Institute for Curriculum Services. Additionally, we have no expenses on our P-Card to the Institute of Curriculum Services.

We found 42 emails from ICS, but they were all bulk marketing emails except for the attached one.

Jeremy Meyer
Director of Communications
Communications Division
P 720-668-6434
201 East Colfax Avenue, Room 208, Denver, CO 80203
Meyer_Jeremy@cde.state.co.us | www.cde.state.co.us
Email cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, email cannot be used to transfer files containing personally identifiable information of educators or students. Contact the intended recipient to mutually determine enhanced security options for transferring such information.