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Colorado lawmakers set aside more funding for schools starting in 2026. They also passed bills related to mental health, Black history, and free school meals.

District 49 filed the lawsuit a day after passing a policy barring transgender youth from school sports teams that match their gender identity.

Last summer, some families didn’t receive the summer grocery money until school started. This year is different.

“We’ve now created a situation where an adult is having a conversation with a minor concerning that minor’s genitalia,” said one father who opposes the policy on transgender athletes.

Colorado stands to lose about $8 million in federal grant money and nearly 300 AmeriCorps members, many of whom work in schools or with youth.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

Colorado Senate lawmakers approved a resolution this week promising to figure out how to boost education funding.

Seclusion is the practice of shutting a student in a room alone. Parents say it is misused and traumatic, while educators describe it as a necessary last resort.

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.

‘If we could punish the department without hurting kids, man oh man, would I be on board with that,’ said one lawmaker.

The Elizabeth school district will file an emergency motion to halt enforcement of the judge’s order, a spokesperson said.

“Federal financial assistance is a privilege, not a right,” the nation’s top acting civil rights official said.