Tag: Race
‘Silence is not an option’: Colorado newsrooms pledge to combat racism...
A slow burn inside newsrooms about the efficacy of objectivity, "both-sides-ism," and a view-from-nowhere approach to reporting burst into a public flashpoint this week. Much of it...
Why is Michael Bennet still running for president?
WASHINGTON – In the field of Democratic presidential candidates in 1992, a relatively unknown, centrist governor from Arkansas wasn’t the obvious frontrunner.
New York Magazine...
A sheriff’s dilemma in the face of Trump’s immigration agenda
This story is the second in a series that examines how a rural Colorado community is grappling with the uncertainties around immigration. Read the first...
DPS takes steps to get more students of color into magnet...
In years past, winning a spot in one of Denver Public Schools’ eight elementary magnet programs for highly gifted and talented students—especially the sought-after Polaris at Ebert Elementary—required parents to be savvy and informed.
Should preschool suspensions and expulsions be banned?
Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Eric Gorski on May 25, 2016
When you hear about suspensions and expulsions, high school may immediately come to mind. But...
Why Colorado’s testing opt-out movement could struggle to build on 2015’s...
Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Eric Gorski on April 27, 2016
A year ago, thousands of Colorado students, parents and educators fed up with...
Littwin: Bennet must be grinning after the GOP Senate debate
If you watched the Republican Senate debate the other night, you can probably guess what I'm about to say. It wasn't that anyone, even...
Denver DA candidates talk police violence, race and wrongful conviction
Denver's district attorney candidates will participate in a forum after the city's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march and parade.
In the midst of the...
Colorado law would let you self-identify by race on your driver’s...
Scene: You're barreling down I-25 in the left lane when flashing lights splash across your rearview mirror. Busted again. You hand the cop your license,...