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Elementary school bike-riding program gaining popularity in Colorado
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A national initiative aimed toward encouraging physical activity and curbing childhood obesity is gaining popularity across the state. All Kids Bike, a program launched by the Strider Education Foundation in 2017, is on a mission to ensure every child in the U.S. is able to ride a bike by the time they finish kindergarten. The…
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LGBTQ references removed from Colorado social studies standards for grades K-3
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When Colorado’s revised social studies framework is presented to the state Board of Education on Tuesday, it will not include a proposed revision that would have allowed discussion about LGBTQ people’s historical contributions and issues in lower-grade civics and social studies classes. The Social Studies Standards Review and Revision Committee has withdrawn its plans to…
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Colorado’s student enrollment plunged during the pandemic — especially among kindergarten and younger grades — stoking fears
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Fifteen hundred dollars a month was a small price for Candida Ring to pay to escape the virtual schooling the pandemic had her family stuck in, due to her daughter’s medical fragility. “It was not set up for children of that age,” Ring said of her school district’s online program for younger students. “They wanted them…
