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Whether it’s a snow day or a pandemic, one of the biggest considerations when deciding to close schools is how to continue to feed children. Breakfasts and lunches served at school are a critical source of nutrition for many students.

MAP: Here’s where children can get meals while Colorado schools are closed due to...

Education Erica Meltzer, Sam Park, Chalkbeat -
Lee aquí en español. On the heels of widespread school closures announced Thursday and Friday, Colorado districts have rolled out plans to keep feeding the...
Empty classroom at Lakewood High School.

Denver, other Colorado districts closing all schools to slow spread of coronavirus

Education Yesenia Robles, Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado -
More than two dozen Colorado school districts that collectively serve more than two-thirds of the state’s students announced Thursday that they would close for...
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee discussing proposed budget estimates and justification for FY2020 for the Education Department on March 28, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Colorado Sen. Gardner joins Dems in rejection of DeVos student loan policy Critics say...

Education Robin Bravender | States Newsroom Washington Bureau Chief -
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to overturn a controversial regulation from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that her critics say hurts defrauded...
In Western states and rural communities, more than half of school nurses cover three or more schools, according to a 2018 study by researchers at the University of Washington and the National Association of School Nurses.

Coronavirus highlights the many roles school nurses play — and the challenges of going...

Education Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat -
Laureen Murray’s work day still looks much like what you’d expect for a school nurse: caring for children with chronic conditions like diabetes and...
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Coronavirus has officially arrived in Colorado. One school district has lessons from its battle...

Education Ann Schimke, Chalkbeat Colorado | Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado -
With Coronavirus now present in Colorado, leaders of the 22,000-student Mesa County Valley District 51 aren’t letting their recent experience with a contagious stomach...
Student walks down a hallway at a public high school. A new study shows racially integrated high schools often conceal segregated classes.

Racially integrated high schools often conceal segregated classes, new study shows

Education Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat -
A truly integrated high school is hard to find. That’s the conclusion of a new North Carolina study that takes a look at two kinds...
Photo by Brad Wilson via Flickr: Creative Commons

Colorado school districts to work with local health departments amid coronavirus threat

Education Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado -
Colorado school districts have pledged to work closely with local public health authorities to keep students safe as federal health officials expressed mounting concern...

Behind closed doors: When it comes to seclusion and restraint, Colorado schools ‘are investigating...

Education Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado -
Nearly every day, Brenna Wann saw staff members take young students, sometimes kicking and screaming, to the “quiet room” of her Colorado elementary school. “They...
Principal Stacy Bedell listens to a student at Eiber Elementary in Jeffco Public Schools. Colorado's suburban school districts are grappling with more schools needing extra resources to address the economic and other challenges students face. (Photo by Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat)

More poverty, fewer federal dollars: Suburban Denver schools face hard choices about who gets...

Education Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado | Sam Park, Chalkbeat Colorado -
As poverty grows along Denver’s borders, some suburban schools are finding they have fewer resources to serve a changing crop of students. School districts are...
Community members and civic leaders wait to testify in support of the Colorado Crown Act, which would ban discrimination against natural hairstyles at work and in school. The bill passed out of a House committee on Feb. 5, 2020. (Photo credit: Erica Meltzer/Chalkbeat)

This Colorado bill bans discrimination against ethnic hairstyles. In schools, change means going beyond...

Education Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado -
Milani Cook remembers sitting between her mother’s legs as a little girl, wincing at each tug as her mother ran a comb through her...
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