Author: Chalkbeat Colorado

A group of Colorado lawmakers spent Monday afternoon plugging numbers into a proposed new school finance formula, squinting at a projection of a computer model to determine “whose cheese got moved.” The phrase — borrowed from the popular management book “Who Moved My Cheese?” about how people deal with change — has become the go-to metaphor…

In a change that one lawmaker is calling a “paradigm shift,” Colorado’s school funding formula eventually could take into account how many students in each district are learning English or have disabilities that require additional services — needs with which state funding has not kept pace. That’s a key component of draft legislation that will…

A national report on the quality of city preschool programs across the country gives Denver a mediocre rating, but program leaders and the report’s authors say the 10-point checklist doesn’t tell the whole story.  The report finds that the Denver Preschool Program, a sales tax-funded initiative that offers preschool tuition assistance to all city 4-year-olds,…

November’s Denver school board election was the most expensive in district history, with candidates and outside groups spending $2.28 million, campaign finance reports show. That’s far more than the $1.54 million spent in 2017, and nearly three times the $796,082 spent in 2015. The Denver school board holds elections every two years. Three seats on…