Editing Gunnison, Colorado (section)

==Education==
[[File:Gunnison-1.JPG|right|thumb|View of Tenderfoot Mountain taken from Gunnison in September 2009. The "W" signifies [[Western Colorado University]].]]
Gunnison is home to [[Western Colorado University]] which received its third renaming since its beginnings from an approval of [[John Hickenlooper|Governor John Wright Hickenlooper]] on August 1, 2012. The college was founded as The Colorado State Normal School for Children by a bill signed on April 16, 1901, by Governor [[James B. Orman]]. In 1923, the college's name was changed to Western State College of Colorado because its role expanded from a teaching institution to a liberal arts college. Historical papers in the Leslie Savage Library on campus state that the school was the first [[liberal arts]] college on the [[Colorado Western Slope|Western Slope of Colorado]].

The Gunnison Valley is also served by the Gunnison Watershed RE1J School District<ref>Retrieved July 1, 2012, [http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdereval/download/pdf/DistrictsListedbySize.PDF List of School Districts by size] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512010117/http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdereval/download/pdf/DistrictsListedbySize.PDF |date=May 12, 2012 }}, Colorado Department of Education Website</ref> which includes Public and Non Public schools.<ref>Retrieved July 1, 2012, [http://www.cde.state.co.us/choice/nonpublic_law.htm Legal Requirements for Non Public Schools], Colorado Department of Education Website</ref> The public schools in the RE1J school district are located in [[Crested Butte, Colorado|Crested Butte]] and Gunnison; Marble Charter School is located in the [[List of municipalities in Colorado#Statutory town|Statutory Town]] of [[Marble, Colorado|Marble]] in northwest [[Gunnison County, Colorado|Gunnison County]]. Public Schools in Gunnison Watershed RE1J School District:  
*Gunnison Elementary School
*Gunnison Kindergarten at Lake School
*Gunnison Middle School
*Gunnison High School
*Crested Butte Community School
*Gunnison Pre-School
*Marble Charter School

The law concerning non public schools, 22–33–104, C.R.S., requires that a sequential program of instruction be provided by an independent or parochial school. Such program shall include, but not be limited to, communication skills of reading, writing, and speaking, mathematics, history, civics, literature, and science.<ref>Minimum standards which apply to non-public schools under state law include compulsory attendance, health standards, local building codes, zoning requirements, and fire safety standards.</ref><ref>retrieved July 1, 2012,[http://www.colorado.gov/oed/industry-license/65IndDetail.html Neither] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706131650/http://www.colorado.gov/oed/industry-license/65IndDetail.html |date=July 6, 2012 }} the State Board of Education nor any local board of education has jurisdiction over the internal affairs of any non-state independent or parochial school in Colorado.</ref> Some of the non-public schools in Gunnison County adhering to these C.R.S. are:
*Little Red Schoolhouse
*Paradise Place
*Stepping Stones Children Center
*Tenderfoot CFDC
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