JeffCo School Board Recall: Where The Candidates Stand
We chose five questions and compiled the positions of each candidate.
In JeffCo, Recall Vote Brings Years Of Turmoil To A Head
The race in Colorado’s second-largest district is saturating social media, lighting up talk radio, and sending hundreds of volunteers on door-knocking campaigns.
Dismayed By Struggling Aurora Public Schools, A New Coalition Demands Change
Aurora Public Schools is Colorado’s fifth largest district, where for every 10 children that begin kindergarten, barely one may graduate from college.
‘I’m Not Racist… Am I?’ Film Screens Again For Denver Students
The forum goes from 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. on the 14th floor of the Emily Griffith Campus, located at 1860 Lincoln Street in downtown Denver.
Colorado’s Rural Schools Use International Teachers To Fill The Gaps
The Bethune schools superintendent says she used to get U.S. applications. “Now we just don’t get applicants, period,” she said.
A Colorado Teacher Shortage Puts Rural Schools On The Brink Of Crisis
So far this year, enrollments in Colorado teacher prep schools are down 23 percent from five years ago.
Colorado Supreme Court Rebuffs School Funding Challenge: What It Means
The legal tussle centered on Amendment 23, a requirement to increase per-pupil spending each year.
Colorado OKs New High-School Graduation Requirements
The new plan gives school districts more options.
Denver High School, Plagued By Racial Divides, Tries To Reinvent Itself
Teachers, students and staff say a year-long effort has placed the school on a strong path forward.
TABOR Distorts Tax Burdens, To Wealthy School Districts’ Advantage, Study Finds
TABOR imposes complicated limits on residential property taxes, which results in some property-rich school districts having very low tax levies.
Report Shows Racial Divide Among Colorado Kids’ School Attendance
Nineteen percent of white 4th graders were absent three days or more in the month prior to national tests. That compares to 32 percent of Colorado’s black fourth graders.
Colorado ACT Scores Improve Slightly
In 2015, 26 percent of Colorado high school graduates met college readiness benchmarks.
Denver Council To Decide On College Scholarship Fund
The measure would be paid for by a small sales tax increase — 8 cents on every $100 spent.
Cheltenham Elementary Principal Resigns Following Parent Protests
Dozens of parents of students at Denver’s Cheltenham Elementary are demanding the removal of the principal for alleged racist behavior.
CU Boulder Pell Grant Students Graduate Less Often Than National Average
Only 63 percent of Pell recipients graduate within six years at the school. That was slightly below the national average of a 66 percent graduation rate.
Aurora Central High, A Refugee Haven, Quickens Search For Success
The district’s oldest high school will undergo big changes next year if it doesn’t improve its low test scores and graduation rates.
