Here’s how Colorado schools would spend an extra $100 million (or more) from the...
Update: By Friday, the JBC had set aside $150 million to increase funding to schools.
Legislators on the Joint Budget Committee unanimously decided last week...
School choice is pushing wealthy families to gentrify areas while avoiding local schools
When Francis Pearman was studying at Vanderbilt, he and a fellow graduate student noticed a striking phenomenon in Nashville: white, affluent families were moving...
‘Existing in a world of violence since we were born:’ Denver students walk out...
Sixteen-year-old Emma Friday walked out because she’s “sick of the violence.”
Fiona Harris, 15, walked out because, she said, “everyone deserves an education. The fact...
‘Really scared and extremely angry’: Why Colorado students are walking out Wednesday
By Erica Meltzer, Ann Schimke, Melanie Asmar and Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado
They want this time to be different.
Whether they’re walking out of school on Wednesday to call for...
Colorado’s high court: There’s no such thing as teacher tenure
The Denver teachers who challenged a landmark state law that allows school districts to put certain experienced educators on unpaid leave lost their cases...
Three years in, an ambitious experiment to improve the odds for kids at one...
Blocks of Hope was once envisioned as a pint-sized version of the Harlem Children’s Zone.
The project would provide an array of educational and social...
Interim Manual High principal named as district begins search for permanent leader
Renard Simmons, principal of the Denver Center for 21st Century Learning, has been named interim principal of Manual High School following the unexpected resignation...
Gubernatorial candidate Noel Ginsburg wants to do away with Colorado’s educator effectiveness law
If elected governor, businessman Noel Ginsburg says he would work to expand apprenticeship programs, raise teacher salaries, send more money to schools – and...
Try, try again: Latest attempt at Colorado school funding measure would raise $1.6 billion...
Colorado voters could see a $1.6 billion tax increase for education on their November ballots.
Backers of a major school funding measure have been cleared...
Jeffco superintendent has ideas to prevent school shootings — without gun control or arming...
Superintendent Jason Glass of the Jefferson County school district isn’t interested in talking about gun control in the wake of yet another deadly school...