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Why Jeffco hasn’t considered academic performance in picking schools to close

Of five Jefferson County elementary schools recommended for closure, one recently received the state’s lowest possible rating for academic performance and another has won...

Last year’s JeffCo school board battle is the subject of a...

Who would spend $1 million in a school board race? Residents of Jefferson County, particularly those with school-aged children, are almost certainly familiar with how...

JeffCo Election Day countdown: The view from the eye of the...

  HOLLY Lindsey is the voter all those TV ads are aimed at. She has lived nearly all her life in Jefferson County. She’s middle-class, churchgoing,...

Wiretap: Conservative JeffCo school board presses vaguely ahead

After hours of public discussion, the board voted 3-2, as expected, to revise procedures for reviewing curriculum. But did it really approve the proposed review of AP U.S. History?

State Board of Ed member: ‘U.S. ended slavery voluntarily’

Colorado education official wonders why the AP U.S. History curriculum misses what seems to her an obvious point -- that the United States voluntarily ended slavery.