Jeffco Public Schools, the state’s second-largest district, announced this week that it’s changing what time students will start school next academic year. Under the new plan, middle and high schoolers will start classes later than they do now, while elementary-aged […]

No, several large Colorado school districts said Tuesday, they are not having issues with students identifying as cats or other animals, as Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl has repeatedly claimed is happening in schools across the state. Ganahl, a University […]

When Flor Camarena was getting ready to graduate from her Denver high school, there was a moment she wasn’t sure she’d be able to go to college. But her counselors, to whom she had confided her lack of legal status, […]

Denver Public Schools announced Thursday that the district will begin paying paraprofessionals at least $20 per hour next month and that it plans to increase the minimum wage for all employees to that rate by the 2024-25 school year. The […]

Colorado’s health department stopped publicly sharing data on COVID-19 outbreaks at K-12 schools this week, roughly a month before many students and teachers return to the classroom. The move, which caught at least some metro-area districts by surprise, is part […]

One morning in June, Brenda Rivas’ two children scampered through the towering playground at Paco Sanchez Park in northwest Denver. It was only the second time the mother and her boys had visited the sprawling structure of slides, swings, and […]

Daniela Urbina-Valle went through Denver Public Schools without ever seeing a teacher who looked like her — Brown skin, Latino roots. That is, until the 18-year-old walked into Tim Hernández’s North High School classroom. Urbina-Valle was in Hernández’s “Latinos in […]

The students, mostly ninth-graders, had just finished lunch when they arrived for fifth-period, honors biology. They sat at tables in groups of threes and fours and pulled out their laptops. One student rested his head on his desk. Their teacher, […]

A group of Lafayette students first proposed an ethnic studies class as seventh graders, but didn’t have enough support to make the class happen. Now juniors at Centaurus High, they said, their school experiences only increased their motivation to keep […]