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Denver, Aurora high schools face potential state action under 2019 preliminary ratings
A new set of Colorado schools faces possible state intervention after failing to improve student achievement for five or more years in a row.
Among...
These 30 people will help reimagine Denver’s controversial school rating system
Concerns with how Denver rates its schools emerged as one of the hottest topics during last year’s search for a superintendent. Now that a...
Back-to-school supplies in some Colorado schools include kitty litter and buckets for lockdowns
Beyond the supplies themselves, which she’s grateful to have, it was the nonchalant way the buckets, kitty litter, and Sharpie marker were handed out...
Across the board, Denver students making above-average progress on tests, study shows
A new study finds that Denver students are making more progress on standardized tests than the state average, regardless of whether they attend a...
In a postmortem, leaders of Denver’s Imaginarium say test scores, bureaucracy are stifling innovation
The Denver school district’s intense focus on test scores makes it nearly impossible to spread teaching practices that would improve education.
That was the conclusion...
After calling out inequity on the debate stage, Bennet leans on his education experience...
On the heels of his criticism of Sen. Kamala Harris and former vice president Joe Biden’s exchange on school integration at last week’s Democratic primary...
More than twice as many Denver students were handcuffed than district originally reported The...
After a family went public this spring with the story of their 7-year-old son being handcuffed at school, the Denver district reported that school...
Biden, Harris reprise school integration dispute during second Democratic debate Michael Bennet punctuates the...
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were once again at loggerheads Wednesday night over busing for school desegregation and the vice president’s track record on...
Denver proposes rebuilding a campus that was the site of a controversial school closure
Denver school officials are exploring building a new high school in the Montbello neighborhood, but it won’t be the comprehensive high school some community members...
Decades of desegregation: Denver readers recall their own stories of ‘busing’
As Democratic presidential candidates debate “busing,” many Americans are revisiting the era when their cities desegregated schools by sending students to other neighborhoods each...