Colorado teachers have a challenge others don’t: convincing voters

1.4 million more free lunches would be served to Colorado kids under proposed legislation

The bill making its way through the Colorado state legislature has the potential to give free meals to about 18,000 Denver Public Schools students from low-income families who were not receiving them before.

This Colorado school district is backing off from its ambitious biliteracy goals

Adams 14 wants students to learn English faster, and the district can't find enough qualified teachers. Advocates question the new approach.

Activists are worried DPS is overstating students’ literacy, so parents will get individual progress reports

Early elementary school families in Denver will get individual reading progress reports from the school district next month.

More than 140 Colorado public schools identified for low performance in 2017 state quality ratings

There are more than 1,700 schools in Colorado, so the vast majority of the state’s students attend schools that received one of the state’s two highest ratings.

Life in a child-care desert: How Elyria-Swansea is tackling a nationwide problem

Licensed child care — particularly for children 3 and younger — is hard to come by in this north Denver neighborhood.

Too tough, not tough enough: Denver’s complicated school rating system is under attack from all sides

Parents use the color-coded ratings to decide where to send their kids, which means the ratings have real-world consequences for enrollment and funding.

Douglas County ends controversial private-school voucher program

The program was a prime fault line in an election this fall that saw voucher opponents take full control of the board.

After a 10-year-old killed herself, there’s a search for solutions in schools and in the statehouse

As the tragic circumstances of a Colorado fifth-grader’s suicide draws widespread attention, state lawmakers want to help schools try to prevent such cases.

A new DPS board member resigns from her teaching position to avoid conflict of interest

Carrie Olson has been a teacher in Denver Public Schools for 33 years.

How Colorado’s teachers unions claimed victories in local school board races

This election means DPS board members will disagree again

When new members are sworn in later this month, the Denver school board will gain something it hasn’t had in two years: dissenting voices.

After complaints, group will stop calling DSST a “for-profit charter school” in election mailers

A teachers union-funded independent expenditure committee called Brighter Futures for Denver Students made the claim in an election mailer.

Teacher, school finance lawyer face off to represent east Denver on school board

A bilingual English language development teacher is vying to unseat an incumbent Denver school board member, who is a school finance lawyer, in District 3.

Two candidates with southwest Denver roots battle to represent region on school board

Two political newcomers are dueling for a wide-open school board seat in southwest Denver, a part of the city that has seen a lot of school changes.

A record number of Denver schools got top ratings, but large disparities persist

Aurora schools now ask visitors for ID, and that may scare off some immigrant parents

In a climate of fear about increased crackdowns on immigration, asking for that kind of documentation can have a chilling effect, advocates say.

The feds cut off money for teen pregnancy prevention. Now a Denver nonprofit will close

Why schools in Aurora, Westminster and Adams County haven’t updated their anti-bullying policies for LGBT kids

Denver public students make record gains on latest state tests, shrinking troubling gaps