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What Proposition CC would mean for Colorado schools

Colorado voters face a decision this November that could send millions of additional dollars to the state’s schools in good economic times — or...

Guest Post: Who fought for teacher pay during the 2019 session?

If you think back to April of 2018, you may remember a sea of red-shirt-clad teachers, armed with creative signage and megaphones, storming the...

Three-quarters of Denver teachers went out on strike, new data shows....

Three-quarters of Denver classroom teachers were absent on the first day of a three-day strike in February, according to attendance numbers obtained through an...

Guest Post: To improve Denver schools, listen to students, parents, and...

Striking Denver teachers are fighting for a contract that will allow us to afford living in Denver and continue teaching the students we love. Our...

Day 1 of the Denver teachers’ strike: Scenes from the...

More than half of Denver Public Schools teachers stayed off the job Monday, triggering mass student walkouts and chaos in the hallways of some...

Slideshow: Denver Public Schools teachers strike after failed pay negotiations Hundreds...

More than half of the teaching workforce in Denver went out on strike today after negotiations with the school district over base pay and...

Decrying ‘political theater,’ state labor chief urges Denver district, union to...

Criticizing the most recent teacher pay bargaining session as “political theater,” the head of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment urged the Denver...

Denver district, teachers union to resume negotiations Thursday

The Denver district and teachers union will head back to the bargaining table Thursday at 5 p.m. as they continue to await word on...

Denver teachers union asks Colorado labor officials to stay out of...

Arguing that intervention would be “futile,” the Denver teachers union has formally asked state labor officials to stay out of a contract dispute between...

On her first day as Denver superintendent, Susana Cordova visits the...

At a morning assembly marking the first day of Susana Cordova’s tenure as Denver schools superintendent, the most telling moment was not the speeches...