Talk:Colorado State Board of Education

Colorado Department of Education
The Colorado Department of Education is the administrative arm of the Colorado State Board of Education.

"As the administrative arm of the State Board of Education, CDE is responsible for implementing state and federal education laws, disbursing state and federal funds, holding schools and districts accountable for performance, licensing all educators, and providing public transparency of performance and financial data. CDE serves students, parents, and the general public by protecting the public trust through ensuring adherence to laws, strong stewardship of public funds, and accountability for student performance."

As this is the case I propose this article (Colorado State Board of Education) be moved under the title of Colorado Department of Education. The Department of Education's website lists the State Board of Education's page on the CDE website. This appears to me to be an hierarchical situation placing the CDE above the State Board of Education. Wikipedia has prominence of BoE with barely a stub of the CDE. I will attempt to expand the CDE article to reflect this hierarchical situation and investigate how much may be merged or perhaps someone with more experience can offer a better solution.

Currently I am creating a List of non-public schools in Colorado for the Wikipedia Project Colorado as one of their to do list requests. The name change is in line with CDE's official language (non-public schools). I am presently trying to move the List to article space but beforehand I was linking the districts and schools to current Wikipedia articles and now I am finding out that quite a bit of work needs to be done to clean up this situation now being presented for discussion.

As a recently new editor to Wikipedia taking a bold initiative to see these things done, I would request comment from the tenured editor sector. This original discussion is being posted on the Colorado State Board of Education talk page and duplicated (copy/pasted) at the WP:Colorado talk page where this discussion should be held as other articles are being affected or will be by the time I am through figuring it all out. I will be watching all affected pages for replies or comments and my User_talk:Orschstaffer page in case I am overstepping my boldness or if I should direct my energies in some other way. I am Orschstaffer and this is a school project. O = M C 4 01:31, 22 July 2012 (UTC)