- Vivian Darby, 36, is finally where she’s supposed to be. The funny, gregarious Colorado native is playing in a big sandbox on a sunny winter day. She’s surrounded by a posse of young children. She sings with them. Runs with them. Screams with them. Gently admonishes them.
- The Pamoja Early Childhood Education Workforce Program, a pilot program, aims to increase the number of early childhood educators who are fluent in multiple languages and meet Colorado’s growing need.
- DPS restarted school for all elementary school students Monday, if their families want it, but teachers remain nervous that a return to class could mean a higher likelihood of coronavirus transmission.
- Teachers say it's too soon after the holidays — and possible COVID-19 exposure — to return to school, especially after many staff and students traveled.
- Colorado has a problem: Too many children with not enough people to take care of them while their parents work. Demand for early childhood educators is expected to increase 20 percent in the next ten years. But already, turnover is extremely high. Today we kick off a weekly series about how Colorado is confronting the challenge. Here’s CPR’s education reporter Jenny Brundin.
- Low pay and high turnover are fueling a crisis in who cares for Colorado's young children, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic rages.
- Cordova’s decision to leave her post and take a job in Dallas has caused a flurry of accusations that she was pushed out by the school board. But in her comments Thursday, Cordova did not blame the board.
- The child of Mexican-American parents and a first-generation college graduate, Cordova was educated in Denver Public Schools and spent 31 years working in the district.
- Just over a week into learning from home, the kids looked tired — way more than they do in class at Josephine Hodgkins Leadership Academy in Westminster Public Schools.
- Five staff members who work in the Sunset Park Elementary building have tested positive for COVID-19.
- District officials say they are as frustrated as parents and would prefer all children to be in school.
- While more restrictive state health orders affect restaurants, gyms, churches and the number of people allowed in private gatherings, schools are another matter.
- Daijah discovered that insight during her own long and twisting mental health journey. But now it's helping her cope with the pandemic, too.
- Officials are plan to spread out days off for students in an effort to curb the spread of travel-related coronavirus cases.
- Right now, the district offers in-person learning two days a week for children with disabilities. The lawsuit wants the option of five days.
- Lake Middle School had just built up a school culture where kids felt respected, proud and accepted. But that all came to a screeching halt when the pandemic hit.
