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More than twice as many Denver students were handcuffed than district...

After a family went public this spring with the story of their 7-year-old son being handcuffed at school, the Denver district reported that school...

DPS students to lawmakers, administrators on gun violence: ‘Please, I’m begging...

The girl, a seventh grader, tiny in an oversized red T-shirt, her hair pulled back into a bun, stood before a group of adults...

To close persistent disparities in discipline, some Aurora teachers are confronting...

Students in Aurora schools are less likely to be expelled or suspended than they were five years ago, but despite years of work to...

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...

Top ten worst Denver schools for racial disparity in school-to-jail punishments

“Denver’s students of color were 219 percent more likely to be suspended out-of-school, expelled or referred to law enforcement compared to their white peers,”...