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The state’s largest teachers union and organizations that represent school boards and district leaders are mounting a united front against proposed changes to how...
Colorado fourth-graders won’t be asked to demonstrate their understanding of the possible benefits of gun ownership as part of their unit on conflict resolution....
Early elementary school families in Denver will get individual reading progress reports from the school district next month explaining how their children are doing...
The State Board of Education on Thursday gave an outside nonprofit group significant authority in efforts to improve three Pueblo schools.
The group, Achievement Network,...
The State Board of Education on Thursday unanimously approved Colorado’s federally required education plan, but not before two of its most outspoken members questioned whether...
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Great Work Montessori School, a proposed preK-8 charter whose application was rejected last month by the Jefferson County Board of Education, has been revived...