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The journalists chronicled how, even as Colorado stares down uncertainty, death and illness, life goes on. Birthdays are celebrated. Prayers are said. And in what feels like a dark hour, there are moments of hope. → Read More
We don’t know when we’ll be able to return the animals to Room 153, or what school will look like across the country when that happens. → Read More
These are the latest negative mailers in what has become a heated, big-money Denver school board election. → Read More
Students are welcoming their teachers back this morning, on what is certain to be an unusual day in Denver schools. Here's how you can tell us your post-strike story. → Read More
A half-dozen civil rights and community group leaders united Thursday to rally behind pay incentives for teachers in high-poverty Denver schools, aligning with the school district in the most contentious piece of a pay dispute with its teachers union. A statement from the coalition, delivered as Denver is on the → Read More
If Denver teachers do indeed strike, the morning scenes outside schools could be dramatic: lines of educators chanting and waving picket signs, substitutes crossing those lines to get to work, and families and students trying to navigate it all. → Read More
The governor-elect is a former member of the State Board of Education and the founder of two charter school networks. → Read More
He’s the son of laborers, a lifelong educator, an accomplished mariachi musician — and leaving a district at risk of state takeover. → Read More
DeVos has visited Colorado twice since her confirmation. But even from afar, she’s loomed large over the state’s education policy and politics — including during November’s local school board elect… → Read More
The Denver school board election has grown more contentious in its waning days, with accusations flying about the influence of outside money and attempts to tie candidates who back the district’s agenda to unpopular Republicans. → Read More
A controversial education secretary, a more aggressive union and the continued influence of outside money all playing a role → Read More
A candidate in the Denver school board race is decrying a recently distributed mailer that shows her face alongside those of President Donald Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and reads “We have to keep their agenda out of Denver.” → Read More
Critics of Denver Public Schools reforms are tying the unpopular (in Denver) Republican figures to school board candidates, and those […] → Read More
The independent expenditure committee that produced the mailer is seeking to influence the northeast Denver race. → Read More
The foundation wants existing “networks” to explain how they spend their money, and what’s already worked for them. → Read More
Osborne, an author and consultant who specializes in documenting public sector reforms, is an advocate of charter schools and giving […] → Read More
The response shows how school districts view their responsibilities when a divisive national policy change carries implications for many Colorado […] → Read More
President Trump is expected to roll back protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. → Read More
DeVos is speaking to the annual meeting of ALEC, which is influential in crafting conservative, free-market friendly legislation. → Read More
City officials are giving away 1,500 cash-loaded transit cards to Denver young people ages 14 to 19, hopeful that data gathered as a result will help build a case to expand public transportation access for the city’s public school students. → Read More