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When state Sen. Owen Hill proposed an amendment to Colorado’s annual school funding bill, he told his colleagues on the Senate Education Committee no...
NOTE: The Colorado Independent occasionally runs guest posts from government officials, local experts and concerned citizens on a variety of topics. These posts are...
The state’s third-largest school district this week named a charter school founder with no experience leading a public school district as the sole finalist...
Golden View Classical Academy parent Floyd Borakove wrote to The Colorado Independent in response to Marianne Goodland's May 1 story, "How charter schools are dodging Colorado laws."
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Lawmaker differences over charter schools and unhappiness with K-12 funding came to a boil late Thursday when senators finally took up the state’s annual school funding bill after a number of false starts.
Educators say people without college degrees, including high schoolers, are teaching in Pre-K through fifth grade classes at the Community Leadership Academy, a publicly...