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JeffCo,Thompson school board races not heating up…yet

Update: Thompson board member Bryce Carlson announced on Friday he would not run for a second term. His statement is below. Wanted: Someone, anyone to...

One month after closure vote, uncertainty about what’s next for students...

Construction paper cards and hearts hang in the main hallway at Pleasant View Elementary in Golden. On them are messages from kids at another...

Jeffco School Board gives Great Work charter initial okay, with strings...

On the same night the Jefferson County Board of Education began plans to close five schools to make up a multi-million budget shortfall, it...

State board increasingly siding with charter schools on appeals

When charter schools in Colorado feel like local school districts aren’t giving them a fair chance to open, they can ask the state Board...

Jeffco school board says no, again, to Walton-backed charter

The Jefferson County Board of Education, for a second time, turned down an application for a charter school with ties to the Walton Foundation. The...

Rejected Jeffco charter gets second chance from state board of education

Great Work Montessori School, a proposed preK-8 charter whose application was rejected last month by the Jefferson County Board of Education, has been revived...

Jeffco board rejects Walton-backed charter school

  It’s back to the drawing board for a proposed Jefferson County charter school backed by the Walton Family Foundation and the grandson of Walmart...

28 boxes of signatures: Conservative Jeffco Board of Education members face...

Supporters of the effort to recall three Jefferson County Board of Education members cheered Tuesday as they turned in 28 boxes of petitions to...

Wiretap: Jobs, Obamacare both booming

In the last 12 months the economy added 2.38 million jobs and 2014 is on track to be the best year for job creation since 1999. Also: 1 million jobs gained in the health care sector since Obamacare passed into law.