The bill would create a transition committee focused on how to merge over 100 programs and initiatives.
A school board policy would be more prominent and harder to change than the superintendent policies that already exist. But a board member worried about giving families false comfort.
Gov. Jared Polis wants Colorado to participate in the federal education tax-credit program. Democratic lawmakers opposed to the idea want rules on how the program operates in the state.
Smith will stay in Denver through the end of the school year. The district will start a search for his replacement soon.
Doing so could save the state money, according to a new report.
The bill would create a transition committee focused on how to merge over 100 programs and initiatives.
A school board policy would be more prominent and harder to change than the superintendent policies that already exist. But a board member worried about giving families false comfort.
Gov. Jared Polis wants Colorado to participate in the federal education tax-credit program. Democratic lawmakers opposed to the idea want rules on how the program operates in the state.
Smith will stay in Denver through the end of the school year. The district will start a search for his replacement soon.
Doing so could save the state money, according to a new report.
Ideas submitted so far include an indoor-outdoor sports complex, new locations for charter schools, and apartments for teachers.
The state is still in the midst of a comprehensive review ordered by a bipartisan 2023 law. But some lawmakers say the state should make an effort to reduce the time students spend on tests.
“Nobody in the state actually regulates how BOCES operate or what they can do,” said the leader of a membership group for public education co-ops.
Meanwhile, the Denver school board is debating its own policy that would similarly bar ICE agents from school property without a warrant.
Denver has offered free enrichment programs since 2013 through the MY Denver Card. Students hope lawmakers will create a similar My Colorado Card to expand access statewide.
Tuesday’s school board meeting ended in five minutes because of a dispute between two factions of the board
The bill would have required more localized elections. But opponents said it could lead to costly campaigns, more heated politics, and gerrymandering.
One bill revives part of a proposal vetoed last year. The other is in response to the Evergreen High School shooting.
One planning commissioner said he worried the school’s original industrial location could result in a child “ending up underneath a cement truck.”
Shana Engel tells her students that “wrong answers are still great answers, because through fixing our mistakes, we develop a greater understanding."
It’s unclear where Riverstone is located now since its building was shut down in late January.
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Colorado lawmakers want to help prospective teachers who have run into legal trouble. A bill under consideration would only require licensure applicants to disclose misdemeanors that happened within the last seven years.
Students Demand Action’s Colorado chapter rallied at the Capitol to support legislation that would make it harder to create illegal guns. The group ramped up its presence at the Capitol after the 2023 East High School shooting.
Cost concerns and competing priorities hindered a planned expansion that would have opened the school to more students without auditions.
Denver school board could consider policy to protect students and staff from immigration enforcement
The proposal would bar school police officers from ticketing or arresting students if doing so would put them at risk of deportation.
The Trump administration cut grant funding for Minority-Serving Institutions nationwide. Colorado lawmakers want to help many of those schools attract more students by creating a new designation.
Colorado passed a seal of biliteracy endorsement in 2017. Sponsors of a new bill that gained approval in the House Education Committee would create a new endorsement so students can prove their bilingualism.
Riverstone Academy, Colorado’s ‘first public Christian school,’ closes building amid safety concerns
It’s not clear if Riverstone is still providing instruction to students.
Democratic backers of the proposal, which the Senate needs to approve on a final reading, say it would help ease the process for educators seeking extreme-risk protection orders.
More than 1,000 Denver teachers called out of work Friday, with some joining students to march around the Colorado Capitol on a day of nationwide protests.
Although a group of lawmakers say they’re committed to keeping funding promises, district officials worry that the state’s $850 million budget shortfall will force a shift.
How do enrollment trends in Colorado compare with the rest of the nation? Data released this month provide some context.
Aurora Public Schools and the Commerce City-based Adams 14 district both serve large populations of immigrant students.
Colorado Democratic lawmakers hope to file two bills this year that increase the state’s ability to monitor and enforce civil rights and disability accommodations violations.
“Let’s start with a clean slate, free of perception of impropriety and the shadow of conflict of interest,” said one board member.
The family of Luis Garcia, a 16-year-old student who was shot and killed outside East, agreed to drop its appeal of a wrongful death lawsuit against Denver Public Schools, court documents show.
Superintendent Alex Marrero had originally recommended that the board vote no.
The Colorado Succeeds proposal would fully separate Pinnacol Assurance from the state, with $150 million going into a trust to help residents gain job skills.
The teacher hit and shoved the toddlers, called them racial slurs, and yelled in their faces, according to state inspection reports.
Abraham Lincoln High has been on the state watchlist for low performance longer than any school in Denver. But Lincoln boosted its state rating to ‘yellow’ this year at a challenging time for the Hispanic community it serves.
District 49, a conservative-leaning district near Colorado Springs, spearheaded the lawsuit last spring.