The main focus of the Capital Construction Unit is to administer the Building Excellent Schools Today (BEST) grant program, which is available to all public school districts, charter schools, institute charter schools, boards of cooperative educational services (BOCES) and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind. The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) provides leadership, resources, support, and accountability to the states 178 school districts, 1,888 schools, over 53,000 teachers, and over 3,200 administrators to help them build capacity to meet the needs of the states approximately 905,000 public school students.