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Decades of desegregation: Denver readers recall their own stories of ‘busing’

As Democratic presidential candidates debate “busing,” many Americans are revisiting the era when their cities desegregated schools by sending students to other neighborhoods each...

Tell us about your experience with busing in Denver schools

Busing and the broader question of what courts and communities should do to create integrated schools has been back in the news after a...

Denver coalition releases step-by-step guide seeking to end school-to-prison pipeline

Denver education and community leaders Thursday launched a how-to guide to help more schools implement “restorative practices,” an alternative to traditional discipline methods that...

Black Lives Matter sign vandalized at Unitarian church

Members of the First Unitarian Society of Denver found their church's Black Lives Matter banner splattered with red paint Sunday morning. Rev. Mike Morran said...

Reader’s view: Boulder’s “Bike Lives Matter” trivializes racial injustice

Biking to work a few days ago in Boulder, I was greeted by signs proclaiming that “bike lives matter” along a controversial section of...