Author: Sentinel Colorado Editorial Board

Each spring, students across almost all grades, and across the state, are required to take an ever-changing battery of standardized tests intended to reveal individual and collective academic skills, primarily math, language arts and science. The generations-old drill of expecting students to try their best and hardest on dull and difficult exams that they know…

This perfectly describes a fixable community problem: Cherry Creek schools is the largest district in Colorado that does not livestream or broadcast its school board meetings. If you’re like many parents, students, teachers and taxpayers who want to know what issues the school district is facing and what elected leaders and top administrators are doing…

Not only does Aurora have yet another shooting tragedy to bear, the city has another Aurora Police disaster on their hands in their mishandling of it. What’s clear in the tragedy is that an Aurora boy, 14-year-old Jor’Dell Richardson, was shot dead by an Aurora police officer June 1. Little else about the shooting, relayed…

It’s easy to laud state lawmakers this year for succeeding at a variety of heavy lifts during the 120-day session that ended in May. Important strides were made toward gun control, school funding and protecting the rights of women and all Colorado residents. Left uncompleted again, however, is legislation to keep millions of Colorado children…

There is no getting around the ugliness of Colorado’s budget debacle created by roaring property values and broken tax-limitation laws. A complex proposal by Colorado legislative Democrats and Gov. Jared Polis created to address the looming property tax-hike crisis is far from neat and tidy, but it’s workable and should be approved with some small…

Despite what lobbyists for gun rights and the gun industry profess, the United States can reduce gun violence of all kinds, and we can do it through gun-control legislation. There would be no greater tribute to those killed and maimed in Uvalde, Aurora, Orlando, Boulder, Sandy Hook Elementary School and most recently Nashville, Dadeville and…