Tag: teachers

A Colorado Independent reader, who wished to remain anonymous, asked how the property tax adjustments in Amendment 73, the school funding measure, would work. The...

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

Want a leg up in school? Don’t attend one near a state border. That’s the surprising finding of a new study published in the...

Job openings in rural public schools go unfilled for years. Classes are crammed with too many students. A single person often teaches multiple grades...

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Melanie Asmar on March 21, 2016 A lawsuit brought by seven current and former teachers against Denver Public Schools...

It was the final farewell for three members of the Douglas County Board of Education. One of their last decisions: rejecting a call to...

Teacher trouble One Boulder High School teacher has been demoted for, well, teaching. The story goes like this: All of Jim Vacca's AP Language Arts...

Bundled children held signs that bent in the the blowing sleet. They read: “Testing ≠ Teaching,” “School zone … No PARCCing,” “Have you freed a teacher today?” and the Twitter hashtag eponymous, “More than a score.”

The gruesome murder of Steven Sotloff may be more about the murder itself than any real political or military objective, Dexter Filkins writes.

LONGMONT — As she kept a watchful eye on her playful toddler, Lindsay Gahn pulled out a state-issued map of town where subdivisions susceptible to oil and gas drilling were colored in red. “When I saw this, my heart just stopped ..."