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Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Melanie Asmar on December 16, 2016
The Denver school board voted unanimously Thursday night to close three persistently low-performing...
Great Work Montessori School, a proposed preK-8 charter whose application was rejected last month by the Jefferson County Board of Education, has been revived...
Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Melanie Asmar on December 9, 2016.
While the criteria for Denver school closure recommendations is clearer than ever before,...
This story originally appeared in Chalkbeat Colorado.
Colorado’s largest school district continues to grow, though not at the same breakneck pace that saw Denver Public...
This story originally appeared in Chalkbeat
When Rebecca McClellan joins the State Board of Education in January, Democrats will have partisan control of the board...
This story originally appeared in Chalkbeat
President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly tapped Michigan philanthropist Betsy DeVos to be his education secretary.
“I am honored to work...
The deeply divided Douglas County Board of Education last week actually voted unanimously on a controversial issue: vouchers.
The board, on a 7-0 vote, killed...