Colorado teachers plan more walkouts, and Jeffco canceled classes one day next week
Teachers from Colorado’s two largest school districts are planning back-to-back walkouts next week to call for more funding for education – and they could...
With school finance act, CO lawmakers try to pass off teacher pay to local...
A school finance act that puts more money into K-12 education than Colorado has spent at any point since the Great Recession passed a...
Colorado Dems overwhelmingly reject Democrats for Education Reform at state assembly
Delegates at the Colorado Democratic state assembly Saturday sent a clear message to the state chapter of Democrats for Education Reform: You don’t have...
A day of action by Colorado teachers will bring hundreds to the Capitol and...
In the midst of a wave of teacher activism across the country, educators in Colorado are joining the fray by putting more pressure on...
Tales from inside Colorado’s teacher shortage: housing for horses and recruiters without interviews
The job fair was going well for Stephanie Polutchko and the phrase on her white name tag explained why: “high school science.”
Like other prospective...
Large achievement gaps in Denver highlighted by new national test data
Compared to other large, urban school districts, Denver has among the biggest achievement gaps in the country between white and Hispanic students in reading...
Running for governor in Colorado, education reformer Mike Johnston says what schools really need...
Former state Sen. Mike Johnston, known as an architect of the state’s most sweeping education reforms, says that what Colorado’s schools really need is money.
Now...
Colorado teachers can claim an unwelcome distinction: most underpaid in the nation (or close...
Teachers from West Virginia to Oklahoma and Kentucky have staged protests or walked off the job in recent weeks to agitate for better pay...
To close persistent disparities in discipline, some Aurora teachers are confronting racial bias
Students in Aurora schools are less likely to be expelled or suspended than they were five years ago, but despite years of work to...
A budget battle and brinksmanship. Then Colorado lawmakers agreed on $35M for school cops...
Colorado lawmakers agreed late Wednesday to spend $35 million next year on police officers in schools and security upgrades to school buildings.
It was the...