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Last Updated: Jun 12 2018 · 7:39 p.m.

The blacktop at Grant Beacon Middle School on South Pearl Street, Platt Park. Jan. 30, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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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.

Maxine Ichikawa and a trove of oxygen tanks that will last her about two weeks. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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With AC units and windows for 268 homes, CDOT asks neighbors to “pardon our dust”

CDOT and the city of Denver are setting aside $3.75 million for home upgrades as part of the mitigation for the I-70 expansion.

The Denver skyline as seen from the Evans Avenue bridge. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Colorado legislature’s plan for self-driving cars explained

State leaders from CDOT Executive Director Shailen Bhatt to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock have been eager to see self-driving cars come to Colorado.

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The busy I-70 and I-25 interchange above a playground near Garden Place Elementary. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Colorado legislative leaders still seeking ways forward on transportation funding, rare common ground

Lyette Olson teaches her fifth graders a math lesson on place value last week at Peoria Elementary School in Aurora. (Yesenia Robles/Chalkbeat)

Aurora Public Schools hopes a new curriculum — plus a new way of thinking — will equal better math students

APS teachers are piloting different curriculum materials meant to boost student understanding of math through deeper thinking to meet higher state academic standards.