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Colorado teachers plan more walkouts, and Jeffco canceled classes one day...

Teachers from Colorado’s two largest school districts are planning back-to-back walkouts next week to call for more funding for education – and they could...

With school finance act, CO lawmakers try to pass off teacher...

A school finance act that puts more money into K-12 education than Colorado has spent at any point since the Great Recession passed a...

Colorado teachers can claim an unwelcome distinction: most underpaid in the...

Teachers from West Virginia to Oklahoma and Kentucky have staged protests or walked off the job in recent weeks to agitate for better pay...

Here’s how Colorado schools would spend an extra $100 million (or...

Update: By Friday, the JBC had set aside $150 million to increase funding to schools. Legislators on the Joint Budget Committee unanimously decided last week...

Colorado’s rural schools dodge major funding cuts

The state’s smallest rural schools avoided funding cuts that would force either their closure or consolidation, under amendments adopted Monday by the state House The School...

#Coleg Notebook: Dr. Chaps gets results; hello budget

Dr. Chaps gets results  Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt has been all over the headlines (and the subject of Mike Littwin's most recent column), for saying that the feticide...