Could a new vaping and tobacco tax pay for free preschool in Colorado? Advocates...
Colorado voters could decide this November whether to fund free preschool for 4-year-olds statewide by taxing tobacco and vaping products.
On Friday, two citizens took...
2020 cheat sheet: What the Democratic presidential candidates have said about education The latest...
Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Chalkbeat Staff on June 13, 2019. Updated on Jan. 3, 2020.
Education is hardly the only issue driving the 2020...
Committee won’t recommend changes to Colorado’s school finance formula
A special committee charged with changing Colorado’s outdated formula for distributing money to schools will not recommend any legislation in 2020.
The Democratic chair of...
New Denver school board member says he will sit during the Pledge of Allegiance
On the eve of his first monthly meeting Thursday, newly elected Denver school board member Tay Anderson said he would remain seated during the...
Putting numbers to a new school finance formula could prove challenging
A group of Colorado lawmakers spent Monday afternoon plugging numbers into a proposed new school finance formula, squinting at a projection of a computer...
Fairer to whom? Colorado considers redividing the pie with a new school finance formula
In a change that one lawmaker is calling a “paradigm shift,” Colorado’s school funding formula eventually could take into account how many students in...
Colorado releases school ratings amid ongoing debate about how to measure performance
Colorado school ratings finalized Wednesday show that slightly fewer schools this year earned one of the two lowest ratings.
Those that did — 154 schools...
First person: Parent fundraising made my school a great place to teach. I was...
First Person is an occasional Chalkbeat series featuring personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others trying to improve public education.
“We’re really lucky here....
Denver to change curriculum that educators said ‘eliminates the Native American perspective’
Until very recently, Denver’s eighth-grade social studies curriculum asked students to identify the challenges faced by settlers as they moved West in the 1800s...
Denver turned marijuana into money for after-school programs. Other cities are taking note.
A modified version of this article first appeared in Youth Today, the national news source for youth service professionals, including child welfare and juvenile justice, youth development,...