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Denver, Jeffco districts won’t do public notifications of new coronavirus cases

As the number of cases grows, Colorado’s largest school districts say they will not do public notifications if a member of a school community...

Back-to-school supplies in some Colorado schools include kitty litter and buckets...

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...

Colorado schools gave out nearly 1,800 suspensions to young students with...

Getting sent home from school became a constant for Ben Wankel’s second-grade son last fall. It started simply enough: The cafeteria was too noisy, his...

Jeffco Public Schools to use restorative practices as part of discipline...

  Jeffco Public Schools is investing more resources in so-called restorative practices as an alternative to suspensions, part of a broader reexamination of student discipline...

Jeffco suspended an average of four young students a day last...

Jeffco Public Schools handed out more suspensions to young students than any other Colorado district last school year, and did so at rates that...