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Two words come to mind when looking back at 2018’s government transparency highlights and lowlights in Colorado.
Judicial secrecy.
In June, the Colorado Supreme Court baffled many legal...
Laura Mutton had always seen herself as an introvert – “the quietest person in the room.”
But the Highlands Ranch mom and software engineer couldn’t...
The Douglas County School District is marketing a software system it has developed to carry out pay-for-performance and other controversial education reforms, a move...
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...
Colorado’s urban school districts are scrambling to calm conservative parental furor over President Barack Obama’s scheduled speech to schoolchildren on Tuesday—even as the state's...