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Colorado State Board of Education: Candidates discuss parental rights, student independence
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(Editor’s Note: This is a part of a series of stories where Colorado Politics interviewed the candidates of the State Board of Education regarding public education funding, policies and other issues.) (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); There is a familiar adage about raising children: “It takes a village.” This means it takes everyone — parents, family, friends,…
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Colorado State Board of Education: 4 seats open, 1 incumbent seeks reelection
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(Editor’s Note: This is a part of a series of stories where Colorado Politics interviewed the candidates of the State Board of Education regarding public education funding, policies and other issues.) Four seats are open on the State Board of Education in 2024 and only one incumbent is seeking reelection. Districts 2, 3, 4, and…
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Mike Lynch arrested in 2022 on DUI suspicion, experts examine Israel-Hamas war, student enrollment is down statewide | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Jan. 18, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: State House Minority Leader Mike Lynch, a Republican candidate in Colorado’s open 4th Congressional District, was arrested in 2022 on suspicion of drunken driving and being in possession of a gun while intoxicated, law enforcement records show. The Wellington lawmaker is one of…
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Denver’s presiding juvenile court judge suspended, Julia Marvin replaces Said Sharbini, Johnson pleads for immigration action in DC | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Jan. 19, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: A Democratic House District 31 vacancy committee on Thursday selected Julia Marvin of Thornton to replace former Democratic Rep. Said Sharbini. Two candidates competed for the HD31 seat: Julia Marvin and Jacqueline Phillips. Both have filed to run for the seat for the…
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Colorado to give $6.7 million in school supplies funding to thousands of teachers
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Colorado teachers can request $1,000 from the state to pay for classroom supplies under a newly-expanded program. Gov. Jared Polis and the Department of Education pledged $6.7 million to the DonorsChoose Program on Thursday, which gives money to teachers to pay for school supplies and resources to improve students’ learning experiences. This adds to the $11 million…
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Free Denver program helps bus transfer students from Adams County
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Free Denver pilot program helps bus transfer students from Adams CountyTom Hellauer tom.hellauer@denvergazette.comTomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g Twelve-year-old Leilani Villagomez takes ride share from Commerce City into Denver every morning to attend school. On the drive, she plays on her cellphone. She chats her friend, Carolyn Galicia, who is also commuting from Adams County 14 School District. The sixth-grader…
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Colorado Senate unanimously OKs reducing license requirements for school therapists
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In 23 years of teaching, Stephanie Smith has attended 20 funerals of students. Smith said a few of the students died by an accidental overdose or car crash, but the vast majority died from the same thing: suicide. This year alone, Smith said three students have committed suicide at Boulder High School where she teaches,…
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Denver Public Schools sees bump in new Spanish-speaking students
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More than 350 new Spanish-speaking students enrolled in Denver Public Schools within the first weeks after an influx of immigrants from South and Central American arrived in the Mile High City, school district data shows. The Denver Gazette requested, under the Colorado Open Records Act, the number of newly enrolled Spanish-speaking students from Nov. 5,…
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El Paso, Teller counties public school enrollment bucks Colorado trend
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Public school enrollment in the Pikes Peak region is bucking a statewide trend of fewer students. Colorado enrolled 3,253 fewer preschool through 12th grade students this academic year over 2021-22, but the Pikes Peak region’s 17 public school districts collectively gained 450 students, according to official numbers the Colorado Department of Education released Wednesday. Nine…
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Denver Public Schools improves graduation rate in 2022 while dropout rate bumps up
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Emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, Denver Public Schools made small but symbolically significant gains with the school district increasing its four-year graduation rate by 2.5% last year. But that news was tempered with the dropout rate eking up 1.2%. The dropout rate last year in Denver was still better than 2019, which saw 4.5% of…
