Help Chalkbeat Colorado cover the 2023-24 school year

| August 28, 2023, 7:49pm UTC

A young girl yells happily in front of a school with a colorful “Welcome Back” sign. — Saliyah Taylor, 7, celebrates her first day school at Jewell Elementary School in Aurora. (Hyoung Chang / The Denver Post)

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