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Guest Post: How many teacher deaths are we OK with?

Sara Woodyard - July 20, 2020

Guest Post: Child care costs in Colorado — why some moms don’t take the raise

Kayla Q Frawley - July 17, 2020

Students gather for a rally while taking part in National School Walkout Day to protest school violence on April 20, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Students in Denver, Colorado are expressing similar fears around youth violence. Halfway through the 2019-2020 school year, five DPS students have been killed. | Jim Young/Getty Images

Students, teachers plead for Denver district to do more in face of rising gun...

Education Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado - February 4, 2020

Five Denver students have died from youth violence, and it’s only halfway through the school year. The increase in violence, felt acutely in the...

Colorado lawmakers are considering limits on how much money donors can give to school board candidates. The legislation would limit individual donors to $2,500 per election cycle and small donor committees, such as that used by the Denver teachers union, to $25,000. (Photo credit: Getty Images)

Colorado legislators consider cap on school board campaign contributions

Education Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 31, 2020

After unprecedented spending in the Denver school board election, Colorado lawmakers are considering limits on how much money donors can give to school board...

Mindy Thompson, teacher and union representative at Kaiser Elementary, demonstrates her support for Amendment 73 during a rally in Denver on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. The measure, which would have raised taxes on corporations and high-income households for education funding, was resoundingly rejected by voters. (Photo by Rachel Lorenz)

Some Colorado teachers could earn more waiting tables. Lawmakers hope to change that. Traditionally,...

Education Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 28, 2020

Charles Cody Childers could make more money teaching in his native West Virginia. He could make more money by driving 45 minutes to teach...

Denver Superintendent Susana Cordova leans down to watch a student work on math problems at Columbine Elementary. (Photo credit: Melanie Asmar/Chalkbeat)

Denver Superintendent Susana Cordova’s first-year challenge: finding common ground in a divided district 'One...

Education Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 23, 2020

Susana Cordova’s first year as superintendent of Denver schools was marked by what one observer called a “torrent of change.” A month after she...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis chats with preschool students at Village for Early Childhood Education at North in Littleton. (Photo credit: Erica Meltzer/Chalkbeat)

Polis pitches preschool expansion, insists Colorado can afford it

Education Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 20, 2020

Surrounded by parents of preschoolers, early childhood teachers, and school district officials, Gov. Jared Polis didn’t have to make the case for universal preschool....

Adams City High School 2019 graduates. Colorado’s 81.1% graduation rate still leaves the state below the national average. (Photo by Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat)

More Colorado students are graduating, even if it takes more time

Education Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado | Sam Park, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 17, 2020

Colorado graduation rates bumped up again in 2019 although districts posted more modest gains than before, and more of them saw decreases in the...

Advocates are seeking to put a tax on tobacco and vaping products on Colorado's 2020 ballot. The tax would pay to cover costs of state-funded preschool for all 4-year-olds by the end of 2022. (Image by Forest Wilson)

Could a new vaping and tobacco tax pay for free preschool in Colorado? Advocates...

Education Ann Schimke, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 13, 2020

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...

Colorado schools race to keep up with the evolving spread of coronavirus.

2020 cheat sheet: What the Democratic presidential candidates have said about education The latest...

Education Chalkbeat staff - January 6, 2020

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

Education Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado - January 3, 2020

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...

Former GOP Congressman Mark Kennedy speaks at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus on May 2, 2019, the day the board of regents named him as the system's new president. The announcement that Kennedy was the sole finalist for the $850,000-a-year job was met with unprecedented protest and concern that politics, not merit drove the process. (Photo by Susan Greene)

CU regents passed over more experienced and prominent applicants when picking Kennedy as president...

Education Susan Greene - December 31, 2019

The University of Colorado’s elected board of regents passed over applicants with more experience running universities and more distinguished careers when it hired conservative former...

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