The union blasted DPS for declaring an impasse during Teacher Appreciation Week.
Denver superintendent: School board should censure member John Youngquist for ‘pattern of hostility’
Superintendent Alex Marrero accused Youngquist in a letter of ‘policy violations, racial insensitivity, and unethical conduct,’ among other allegations.
Colorado, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey have in-state tuition programs for undocumented students. Now, the Trump administration plans to take action against those programs.
Eighteen titles, including ‘The Bluest Eye’ and ‘The Kite Runner,’ were returned to library shelves this week.
Board members also changed Marrero’s contract to eliminate performance bonuses, which the teachers union has criticized.
The union blasted DPS for declaring an impasse during Teacher Appreciation Week.
Denver superintendent: School board should censure member John Youngquist for ‘pattern of hostility’
Superintendent Alex Marrero accused Youngquist in a letter of ‘policy violations, racial insensitivity, and unethical conduct,’ among other allegations.
Colorado, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey have in-state tuition programs for undocumented students. Now, the Trump administration plans to take action against those programs.
Eighteen titles, including ‘The Bluest Eye’ and ‘The Kite Runner,’ were returned to library shelves this week.
Las clínicas de derecho ofrecen a los estudiantes una manera de adquirir experiencia con casos y clientes antes de graduarse. Y la administración Trump ha hecho que las clínicas de derecho para inmigrantes de las facultades sean más cruciales que nunca.
Board members also changed Marrero’s contract to eliminate performance bonuses, which the teachers union has criticized.
Colorado ranks third in the nation, after Washington, D.C. and Vermont, for the share of 4-year-olds served in its state-funded preschool program.
The Trump administration has sought to exert greater federal control over higher education. Researchers visiting Denver rallied at the Capitol against the president’s actions.
Colorado university law clinics offer students a way to get experience with cases and clients before graduating. And the Trump administration has made the schools’ immigrant law clinics more crucial than ever.
Four seats on the seven-member Denver school board are up for election in November.
Lawmakers needed to balance a $1.2 billion budget hole. They were still able to secure increases for K-12 and higher education budgets.
After weeks of uncertainty, lawmakers approve $2.9 million for the program as part of the “long bill.”
Half of the displaced students will go to higher-performing schools, and a significant number are moving from district-run schools to charter schools.
Higher education leaders said late last year they would need $95 million more annually. They'll get far less than requested.
Colorado Senate lawmakers approved a resolution this week promising to figure out how to boost education funding.
Ten Denver schools with low enrollment will close or partially close at the end of this school year.
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A panel of experts said the state hasn’t felt any major impacts from Trump cuts yet, except for students with disabilities. They worry there will be education challenges in the future.
Currently, about a dozen Colorado districts conduct universal dyslexia screenings in some grades.
Colorado lawmakers have sought to create more opportunities to help students get college experience at an earlier age. Now, Denver Public Schools’ Emily Griffith Technical College can issue its own associate degree.
Four of the seven board seats are up for election in November.
The Colorado Youth Advisory Council is made up of 40 students between the ages of 14 and 19 and has helped create laws. But lawmakers will end the council’s ability to draft bills.
Measles cases in Colorado are rising.
Some of the rules won’t be fully in place for more than two years.
However, Commissioner Susana Córdova said she will sign a new assurance that the state is in compliance with Title VI, which bans discrimination on the basis of race.
Republican board members criticized the proposal as biased, one-sided, and ‘indoctrination.’
One of the bill sponsors said she may try again in future years.
'It’s becoming a bigger and bigger issue for school districts in rural communities to be able to hire and retain folks,' one of the report authors said.
Colorado lawmakers said Senate Bill 276 introduced last week will ensure state and local officials don’t comply with federal immigration officials unless they have a valid reason.
Six teacher prep programs in Colorado earned an A or A+.
Colorado House Education Committee lawmakers unanimously approved a school funding compromise bill. Its passage marks the first step toward revising how the state will fund schools next year.
The Trump administration has given states 10 days to certify that their schools do not engage in practices that promote DEI — or lose their federal funding.
The Elizabeth school district will file an emergency motion to halt enforcement of the judge’s order, a spokesperson said.
‘If we could punish the department without hurting kids, man oh man, would I be on board with that,’ said one lawmaker.
The end of the grant likely makes it harder for Aurora-area residents who hold a green card to find services that help them become a U.S. citizen.
The current version of the legislation is a far cry from what bill sponsors envisioned.
One building will become a preschool center. Another will be the new home of an existing middle and high school.