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Video: Protestors: ‘We are more than a score’

Teachers, students and families gathered on the Capitol steps on Wednesday to stop standardized testing in Colorado schools. See our video below. Video by Kyle...

Frustrated with board, JeffCo teachers look to state legislature

  Counties like Douglas and Jefferson in suburban Denver have become political flash points in local and state politics as conservative boards of education duel...

Opting Out

It’s that time of year when tens of thousands of Colorado school kids are sharpening their No. 2 pencils, rolling up their sleeves and...

Working the grassroots to gore Common Core

Anita Stapleton is on a mission. She wants to bury the Common Core national education curricula standards, and in the last half year, she has won a lot of support in Colorado.

Wiretap: Inequality blues; US-36 cloak and dagger

It's simple, to solve inequality in America, you just take $4 trillion from the top 40 percent and give it to the bottom 60 percent. That'll work.