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Colorado finally received approval for its federally mandated education plan Monday, one year and two revisions after the state first submitted it.
Colorado’s plan was...
The State Board of Education on Thursday unanimously approved Colorado’s federally required education plan, but not before two of its most outspoken members questioned whether...
Colorado Congressman Jared Polis worries more about Congress creating bad education policy than about U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos enacting it.
But that doesn’t mean...
As Colorado lawmakers return to the Capitol on Wednesday to begin crafting education policy and setting spending priorities, they face significant budget challenges, an...
Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Nicholas Garcia on June 7, 2016
A broad coalition of education reform and civil rights groups is lobbying against a proposed change to the...