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At Denver’s East High School, teens made a two-minute video that opens with a sober-voiced male student asking pointed questions of Denver Public Schools...
Update: At 5:15 p.m. Friday, Erica Meltzer blogged that Denver Public Schools administrators came back to the bargaining table and offered teachers the opportunity...
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...
The day after the San Bernardino shooting, SWAT teams stormed Denver's East High School after rumors spread about a mass shooting. A senior, Elhadji...
Last Thursday, East High School junior McCoy Cantwell asked state Supreme Court justices and attorneys whether Superman was an identity thief.
In a 1966 comic,...
For the second time in two years, the College Board has re-written history.
Debates over the curriculum erupted fall of 2014 over changes the company, which is...
“Every morning, we drive 18 miles across town to East High School, because our neighborhood school is one of the many across Denver that are failing,” begins Denver Mayoral candidate Michael Hancock's new television ad.