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Feds approve Colorado’s education plan after multiple revisions, but critics see...

Colorado finally received approval for its federally mandated education plan Monday, one year and two revisions after the state first submitted it. Colorado’s plan was...

Colorado wants to help these 230 schools improve learning. Here’s the...

More than 200 Colorado schools, most with vast and stubborn achievement gaps, could be eligible under new federal guidelines for a slice of $11...

Vote on Colorado education plan erupts into war of words over...

The State Board of Education on Thursday unanimously approved Colorado’s federally required education plan, but not before two of its most outspoken members questioned whether...

Congressman Jared Polis is more worried about Congress than about Betsy...

Colorado Congressman Jared Polis worries more about Congress creating bad education policy than about U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos enacting it. But that doesn’t mean...

Seven education storylines to watch as the Colorado General Assembly gets...

  As Colorado lawmakers return to the Capitol on Wednesday to begin crafting education policy and setting spending priorities, they face significant budget challenges, an...

Proposed shift in Colorado’s school ratings draws ire of education reform,...

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Nicholas Garcia on June 7, 2016 A broad coalition of education reform and civil rights groups is lobbying against a proposed change to the...