Tag: Education
Here’s what Betsy DeVos had to say in Denver about DACA,...
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s first multi-state school tour of her tenure took her Wednesday to a private Denver autism center, where she encouraged...
How Colorado conservatives are pressing GOP candidates for governor on education...
It’s just before 7 p.m. Tuesday and conservative talk radio host Ross Kaminsky asks his producer to include 30 seconds of background music to...
Jeffco Public Schools to use restorative practices as part of discipline...
Jeffco Public Schools is investing more resources in so-called restorative practices as an alternative to suspensions, part of a broader reexamination of student discipline...
JeffCo,Thompson school board races not heating up…yet
Update: Thompson board member Bryce Carlson announced on Friday he would not run for a second term. His statement is below.
Wanted: Someone, anyone to...
Hickenlooper, on national TV, calls for bipartisanship on job training for...
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Sunday said Republicans and Democrats should work together to rethink how states are preparing high school graduates for the 21st...
Aurora school board member criticized for comments about immigrants
Facing criticism for her recent comments about immigrants, an Aurora school board member Tuesday offered a lengthy, emotional response that emphasized the importance of...
Jeffco suspended an average of four young students a day last...
Jeffco Public Schools handed out more suspensions to young students than any other Colorado district last school year, and did so at rates that...
Amid push to get CO child care providers to seek higher...
Dede Beardsley says she’s always received rave reviews about the Montessori preschool and kindergarten program she’s led in Boulder for nearly four decades.
Parents and...
The biggest bill of the legislative session pops this week. Here’s...
The name of the game: getting a bill that could make or break some rural hospitals and could free up millions for education and...
Corporal punishment bill goes down in Colorado Senate committee
A Republican-controlled state Senate committee Monday killed a bill that would have prohibited corporal punishment in Colorado’s public schools and day care centers that...