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A Colorado Independent reader, who wished to remain anonymous, asked how the property tax adjustments in Amendment 73, the school funding measure, would work.
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Job openings in rural public schools go unfilled for years. Classes are crammed with too many students. A single person often teaches multiple grades...
Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Melanie Asmar on March 21, 2016
A lawsuit brought by seven current and former teachers against Denver Public Schools...
Bundled children held signs that bent in the the blowing sleet. They read: “Testing ≠ Teaching,” “School zone … No PARCCing,” “Have you freed a teacher today?” and the Twitter hashtag eponymous, “More than a score.”
LONGMONT — As she kept a watchful eye on her playful toddler, Lindsay Gahn pulled out a state-issued map of town where subdivisions susceptible to oil and gas drilling were colored in red.
“When I saw this, my heart just stopped ..."