Author: Erica Meltzer CHALKBEAT COLORADO

Denver Public Schools will hold classes in the new school year remotely at least through Oct. 16, and district officials are still working with public health officials on a framework that would allow students to return to the classroom. Denver Public Schools made the announcement Wednesday. Superintendent Susana Cordova said she understands that constantly changing…

Denver Public Schools is considering pushing back the start of the school year until Aug. 24. The delay would allow more time to plan for the impacts of the coronavirus on the school system and provide relief to students and teachers in schools without air conditioning. The Denver district has been planning to return to…

In 1913, a railroad foreman in Alamosa tried to enroll his 11-year-old son in the school closest to the family home. The school district denied him, and instead forced Miguel Maestas to walk seven blocks across dangerous railroad tracks to what was known as the Mexican School. Maestas and other Mexican American families sued the…

The Colorado Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, is shifting its support away from a State Board of Education member it endorsed six years ago. CEA announced its support Wednesday for two candidates for State Board. In the District 1 race, to represent Denver, CEA has endorsed Lisa Escárcega, the current head of the Colorado…

Agree or disagree with these statements: “Government should decide how business profits are distributed.” “I don’t feel much of an attachment to the USA.” “Differences in social standing are an incentive to work harder.”  High-school seniors from across the West seeking prestigious Daniels Fund scholarships were asked to answer these and other questions on a…

Denver students improved their performance this year on the math and reading tests known as the nation’s report card, but the district continued to demonstrate some of the largest test score gaps based on race, ethnicity, and family income among large urban districts. That’s according to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or…

Teachers in the Park County Re-2 district based in Fairplay are returning to work Thursday with neither the professional agreement nor the pay raises they sought when they started their strike on Oct. 14. This marks the end of the longest teacher strike in Colorado in decades and the first in recent years to end…

Colorado voters face a decision this November that could send millions of additional dollars to the state’s schools in good economic times – or no money at all in down years – by doing away with tax refunds required under current law. Instead of asking voters to raise taxes, Proposition CC asks voters to let…

A teacher strike in Colorado’s high country is entering its second week with no sign of how or when the labor dispute will be resolved. Teachers in Park County went on strike Oct. 14. Roughly 40 teachers serve some 600 students in the district based in Fairplay. Educators there are seeking raises that they say…