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Denver Public Schools announces return to in-person classes this fall

Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado - June 26, 2020

Denver teachers, district reach agreement that keeps some raises amid budget cuts

Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado - June 19, 2020

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Colorado school districts to work with local health departments amid coronavirus threat

Chalkbeat Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado - February 28, 2020

Colorado school districts have pledged to work closely with local public health authorities to keep students safe as federal health officials expressed mounting concern...

Behind closed doors: When it comes to seclusion and restraint, Colorado schools ‘are investigating...

Chalkbeat Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado - February 24, 2020

Nearly every day, Brenna Wann saw staff members take young students, sometimes kicking and screaming, to the “quiet room” of her Colorado elementary school. “They...

Principal Stacy Bedell listens to a student at Eiber Elementary in Jeffco Public Schools. Colorado's suburban school districts are grappling with more schools needing extra resources to address the economic and other challenges students face. (Photo by Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat)

More poverty, fewer federal dollars: Suburban Denver schools face hard choices about who gets...

Chalkbeat Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado | Sam Park, Chalkbeat Colorado - February 17, 2020

As poverty grows along Denver’s borders, some suburban schools are finding they have fewer resources to serve a changing crop of students. School districts are...

Community members and civic leaders wait to testify in support of the Colorado Crown Act, which would ban discrimination against natural hairstyles at work and in school. The bill passed out of a House committee on Feb. 5, 2020. (Photo credit: Erica Meltzer/Chalkbeat)

This Colorado bill bans discrimination against ethnic hairstyles. In schools, change means going beyond...

Chalkbeat Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado - February 10, 2020

Milani Cook remembers sitting between her mother’s legs as a little girl, wincing at each tug as her mother ran a comb through her...

Students gather for a rally while taking part in National School Walkout Day to protest school violence on April 20, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Students in Denver, Colorado are expressing similar fears around youth violence. Halfway through the 2019-2020 school year, five DPS students have been killed. | Jim Young/Getty Images

Students, teachers plead for Denver district to do more in face of rising gun...

Chalkbeat Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado - February 4, 2020

Five Denver students have died from youth violence, and it’s only halfway through the school year. The increase in violence, felt acutely in the...

Colorado lawmakers are considering limits on how much money donors can give to school board candidates. The legislation would limit individual donors to $2,500 per election cycle and small donor committees, such as that used by the Denver teachers union, to $25,000. (Photo credit: Getty Images)

Colorado legislators consider cap on school board campaign contributions

Chalkbeat Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 31, 2020

After unprecedented spending in the Denver school board election, Colorado lawmakers are considering limits on how much money donors can give to school board...

Mindy Thompson, teacher and union representative at Kaiser Elementary, demonstrates her support for Amendment 73 during a rally in Denver on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. The measure, which would have raised taxes on corporations and high-income households for education funding, was resoundingly rejected by voters. (Photo by Rachel Lorenz)

Some Colorado teachers could earn more waiting tables. Lawmakers hope to change that. Traditionally,...

Chalkbeat Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 28, 2020

Charles Cody Childers could make more money teaching in his native West Virginia. He could make more money by driving 45 minutes to teach...

Denver Superintendent Susana Cordova leans down to watch a student work on math problems at Columbine Elementary. (Photo credit: Melanie Asmar/Chalkbeat)

Denver Superintendent Susana Cordova’s first-year challenge: finding common ground in a divided district 'One...

Chalkbeat Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 23, 2020

Susana Cordova’s first year as superintendent of Denver schools was marked by what one observer called a “torrent of change.” A month after she...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis chats with preschool students at Village for Early Childhood Education at North in Littleton. (Photo credit: Erica Meltzer/Chalkbeat)

Polis pitches preschool expansion, insists Colorado can afford it

Chalkbeat Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 20, 2020

Surrounded by parents of preschoolers, early childhood teachers, and school district officials, Gov. Jared Polis didn’t have to make the case for universal preschool....

Adams City High School 2019 graduates. Colorado’s 81.1% graduation rate still leaves the state below the national average. (Photo by Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat)

More Colorado students are graduating, even if it takes more time

Chalkbeat Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado | Sam Park, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 17, 2020

Colorado graduation rates bumped up again in 2019 although districts posted more modest gains than before, and more of them saw decreases in the...

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