Author: Erica Meltzer Chalkbeat Colorado
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Most Colorado students now attend schools with mask mandates
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When students returned to school in the Greeley-Evans district north of Denver, masks were recommended — but not required — for unvaccinated students and staff. That made the district typical in Colorado, where the state neither banned mask mandates nor issued its own requirement. Instead, the state left the decision up to local school districts and public…
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Colorado school finance bill sends more money to students in poverty, English learners
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Colorado school districts will get an additional $77 million to help students whose families are living in poverty or who are learning English under legislation introduced this week. The one-time money would help some of the students hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic — without the state reworking its complicated school finance formula, a larger…
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Masks still required in Colorado schools, child care, indoor camps
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Masks will still need to be worn in all Colorado schools, child care centers, and indoor summer camps under a modified executive order from Gov. Jared Polis. Colorado’s statewide mask mandate, first issued in July 2020, was set to expire Saturday. Polis announced Friday that he would extend the mask mandate for at least another…
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A job or a civic duty? Colorado weighs paying school board members
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More than 60% of students in the Roaring Fork School District are Hispanic, but when Jasmin Ramirez was elected in 2019, she and fellow board member Natalie Torres became the first Latinas to serve on the school board. Like all Colorado school board seats, it’s a volunteer position that comes with no pay. That sacrifice…
