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In a time of plenty, students on Colorado campuses are hungry

https://youtu.be/QFn4D3Sl9-s Nell Roach, a student at Metropolitan State University in Denver, tells of her struggle to find adequate food and housing while pursing her degree....

In time of plenty, students on Colorado campuses are hungry College...

Nell Roach was hungry. Again. It hit her like this often. She hadn’t been able to get enough to eat the day before, and...

What happened when Denver prioritized enrolling low-income students at some affluent...

Two years ago, Denver Public Schools approached its most affluent schools with an idea: What if, after enrolling all of the students who lived...

Could a modest summer bus pass program for youth help unlock...

City officials are giving away 1,500 cash-loaded transit cards to Denver young people ages 14 to 19, hopeful that data gathered as a result...

DPS takes steps to get more students of color into magnet...

In years past, winning a spot in one of Denver Public Schools’ eight elementary magnet programs for highly gifted and talented students—especially the sought-after Polaris at Ebert Elementary—required parents to be savvy and informed.

Shut out of GOP debate, CU students find their own way...

In case you haven't heard, it's tough to get into the Republican primary debate hosted at the University of Colorado in Boulder this evening....

Colorado kids to Encana: Don’t frack our schools

ERIE — With black whiskers painted across her cheeks, 6-year-old Olivia Cusimano roared into the plastic megaphone as if hers were the voice of the blue knotted-up balloon tiger she clutched beneath her left arm.

Students, activists rally for immediate passage of DREAM Act

DENVER – Undocumented Colorado youths and immigration reform activists, frustrated by the lack of action on comprehensive immigration reform in Congress, gathered across the...

Schultheis proposal to count state’s illegal-immigrant students rejected

Senate Democrats Monday quashed a proposal that would have required Colorado schools to count undocumented immigrant students and report the number to the government....