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JeffCO Public Schools officials call cops on veteran teachers during new teacher orientation

A handful of Jefferson County's veteran public school teachers met outside Green Mountain High School today to welcome incoming teachers at the district's induction...

Colorado Ethics Watch nudges Jeffco school board: Stop violating Colorado Open Records Act

The embattled Jefferson County School Board, which has been accused of violating the Colorado Open Records Act by failing to have an email retention...
Florence High School Cowboy Church

Cowboy Church at Crossroads bucked from Florence High School

A few months ago, we brought you news that a Jewish teacher, Brian Schipper, had sued Florence High School for sponsoring a host of...

Reader’s view: Denver Public School’s chief schools officer on Cheltenham Elementary

Denver Public School's Chief Schools Officer Susana Cordova wrote the following in response to Nat Stein's article "Parents complain Denver elementary school principal humiliates...

28 boxes of signatures: Conservative Jeffco Board of Education members face recall

Supporters of the effort to recall three Jefferson County Board of Education members cheered Tuesday as they turned in 28 boxes of petitions to...
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Investigator: Twin Peaks Academy entitled to “editorial control” over graduation speech

Twin Peaks Charter Academy didn't violate valedictorian Evan Young's legal rights when Principal BJ Buchmann barred the student's graduation speech, an outside investigation found. At the...

Parents complain Denver elementary school principal humiliates Latino students

Guadalupe Arguelles first found out from another mom that her 8-year-old son Julio was forced to eat on the floor in school. When she...

Polis pushes federal protections for LGBT students, Gardner votes against them

Boulder Rep. Jared Polis led the drafting and circulation of a letter urging the U.S. Department of Education to do everything in its power...

Principal of discrimination-charged charter school leaves for similarly-charged district

The Longmont Times-Call reported today that BJ Buchmann, the Twin Peaks Charter principal who refused to allow valedictorian Evan Young to give a graduation...

What the Board of Education chair’s turbulent departure says about Colorado schools

If thousands of kids protesting and lawmakers staying up until all hours trying to hash out workable compromises on testing reform didn't tell you that the state of public education in Colorado is pretty contentious these days, than the abrupt resignation of newly-elected state Board of Education Chair Marcia Neal confirms it.
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