A bill that would comprehensively realign K-12 education curriculum standards to match them up with college admissions requirements will soon be law.

Gov. Bill Ritter this week signed Senate Bill 212, known as the Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids or CAP4K, at a ceremony at Arvada High School.

The bill received support from both parties in the legislature and was hailed as one of the session’s major accomplishments.

Supporters say the bill will modernize curriculum standards and put every kid in Colorado on the path to a college education.

“The better prepared students are, the better chance they have to excel in a growing global economy,” Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver, said in a statement.

The bill was one of several education-related measures the Governor signed yesterday.

“These bills represent some of the most important work the legislature did this session,” he said. “It truly was the ‘education session.’ These were bipartisan bills, because the education of our young people and the future of Colorado’s economy should not be about partisan politics"

He continued:

“But we have a 25 percent high school dropout rate,” Gov. Ritter said. “We rank 45th in the country for the percentage of native-born residents who earn college degrees. And as a nation, we are one of just two industrialized countries in the world whose college-completion rate is actually declining. We can do better. We must do better. With these new bills, we will do better.”