Author: By Erica Meltzer

Outside a suburban Denver elementary school, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis bent his head for a temperature check before getting the all-clear to head inside and meet a small group of masked second-graders who were back in school for the first time since March. He was at Village East Community Elementary School, part of the Cherry…

The Denver school board issued a statement Thursday that urged parents to keep their children enrolled in public schools and think carefully before forming learning pods and micro-schools. “We are deeply concerned about the pods’ long-term negative implications for public education and social justice,” the board members said in a statement posted to the district…