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Denver school board bans use of handcuffs on elementary school students

Campus safety officers employed by the Denver school district will no longer be allowed to use handcuffs on elementary school students, after the school...
Teachers, parents, and students wait to speak in favor of updating LGBTQ policies at a recent Jefferson County School Board meeting Thursday. (Photo by Kati Weis, Chalkbeat Colorado)

Jeffco schools to consider updating LGBTQ policies as backers call for ‘more foundation and...

Supporters of stronger LGBTQ policies waited together for six hours to explain why the Jefferson County Public Schools board should update its anti-discrimination practices....
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Many refugee students register for school using the wrong birthdate. Advocates urge Aurora district...

Some Aurora students are aging out of local schools — often because of an incorrect birthdate on their immigration documents. “I had several students who...
Columbine High School by Travellingzenwolf via Flickr: Creative Commons

Seeking to deter a ‘morbid fascination,’ Jeffco may rebuild Columbine High School

Twenty years after the Columbine shooting, Jefferson County Public Schools is considering rebuilding the high school in a nearby location with the hope that...
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Denver teacher ‘will not return’ to district after reportedly making black student clean up...

A 6-year-old black boy was reportedly made to clean feces off the floor of a school bathroom after his kindergarten teacher believed a white...
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‘It’s OK to not be OK’: How one high school saved lives with a...

It was 10:30 a.m. on a Monday in April. Nine counselors, psychologists, and therapists sat around a table in a conference room at Cañon...
Superintendents (from left) Rico Munn of Aurora, Lisa Yates of Buena Vista, Scott Siegfried of Cherry Creek, Thomas Tucker of Douglas County, and Pam Swanson of Westminster joined Becky Crowe of Clayton Early Learning and attorney Craig May in a PEBC forum moderated by Gregg Moss, president and CEO of the Metro North Chamber of Commerce. (Photo courtesy of Jenna Oliver/PEBC)

Superintendents: Colorado schools must evolve to prepare students for a changing economy

In a rapidly changing economy, Colorado students will need skills that they can apply across a range of fields. But state systems don’t always...
Colorado AeroLab 5th grade students at South Routt County's Soroco Middle School in Oak Creek watch their 3-D models come to life. (Photo by Jody Elston)

More than 80,000 Colorado students attend school four days a week. What happens on...

While many children across Colorado are heading to school on Monday mornings, siblings Angelica and Paul Gallegos of Brighton are on their way to...
Inside the Colorado Capitol. (Photo by John Herrick, Colorado Independent)

Colorado changed its laws around sex ed. Here’s what you need to know.

Colorado law will soon require students who receive sexual education to learn about consent in school. But the road to passing that bill was bumpy....
Dozens of Stedman Elementary kindergarteners look on as Gov. Jared Polis signs the full-day kindergarten bill into law on May 21, 2019. (Photo by Kati Weis/Chalkbeat Colorado)

Polis signs full-day kindergarten bill into law

Fulfilling a key campaign promise, Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday signed into law a bill funding full-day kindergarten to much pomp  — complete with...