Quality Teacher Recruitment Grant Program

Section 22-94-101, C.R.S. (Senate Bill 13-260), created the Quality Teacher Recruitment Program. The program authorizes CDE to award grants to organizations (including educator preparation programs) collaborating with school districts or boards of cooperative educational services (BOCES) to recruit, select, train, and retain highly qualified teachers in areas that have had historic difficulty in attracting and keeping quality teachers. The program also includes funding for CDE to contract with a third-party evaluator to track and review the program’s outcomes.

Eligible applicants are required to have a documented history of recruiting, training, and retaining highly qualified teachers in areas of Colorado and other states that have had historic difficulty in attracting teachers and must demonstrate that the teachers it has placed achieved high academic growth from their students. Applicants are also required to obtain 100% matching funds from private or corporate donors and/or one or more school districts or local governments.

News

For the 2026-27 application year, the Request for Applications (RFA) is only open to current recipients of the Quality Teacher Recruitment Program (QTRP) and those who applied in the 2025-26 cycle but were not awarded. The application is closed to the public.

The Request for Application (RFA) for the 2025-27 grant cycle is now closed and the following organizations were awarded:

• Canon City Schools
• Fort Lewis College
• Morgan County School District
• Public Education & Business Coalition
• St. Vrain Valley School District
• Teach for America

 

View a list of grants that have been awarded in prior grant cycles.

The most recent report on this program is available on our website.

For further information, please contact Alison Griffin-Hunter.