The program will train young adults ages 18 to 24 to act “as navigators serving middle and high school students,” according to state officials.

History often pays attention to Oliver Brown and the male lawyers behind the landmark case. But 12 Black mothers from Kansas also played a crucial role in challenging inequities in their children’s schools.

Advocates say there are about 45 outdoor preschool programs in Colorado.

The contract provision in question has to do with the end of the so-called budget stabilization factor, which withheld funding from Colorado’s K-12 schools.

Education was a big issue in 2024, with a school funding formula rewrite dominating the last weeks of the legislative session.