Back to School Basics: Public Schools Are Not Sunday School
Max Schlenker As public-school students return to classrooms for the new school year, some could face an unexpected test: religious indoctrination. Thanks to various state laws enacted…
Overworked, Underpaid, Under Attack: Survey Shows Colorado Teacher Challenges
By Erica Meltzer Colorado educators feel overworked, underpaid, and under attack, and they think students’ education is suffering as a result. Those were the findings of the Colorado…
Colorado’s Free Preschool Application Is Open, Here’s What You Need To Know
By Ann Schimke The parent application for Colorado’s new free preschool program opened at 8 a.m. on Jan. 17 — a major milestone in the march toward the program’s…
Horrors of Native Boarding School Era Have Gone Unacknowledged for Too Long
Rev. Katie Sexton-Wood As members of the Arizona Faith Network, we find strength in our differences. We are Sikh, Catholic, Jewish, Presbyterian, Mormon, Lutheran, Muslim, Quaker, and…
Study Offers Views on Quality and Equity in Education
A year-long community research initiative led through the PEACE Collective reveals that Brown, Black, and Indigenous students and their families in Denver Public Schools (DPS) care deeply about quality…
Liaison Michelle Quattlebaum is Running for Denver School Board
By Melanie Asmar A mom who worked to improve the culture of a school that was historically divided by programming and race is running to represent northeast Denver…
Please Listen to Us. The Time Has Come to Fund Education, Not Incarceration
Desiree Rodríguez and Alex Sosa As doctors think about the havoc the global pandemic may cause in a classroom and education experts discuss learning loss, they need to…
Scholarships Help Latinx Students on the Path to Higher Education
Colgate-Palmolive Company is now accepting applications for its annual Haz la U (“Make the U”) educational grant program for the 2022-2023 academic year. In partnership with the Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF), the program…
Students Of Color Deserve to See Themselves in Their School Curriculum
Salwa Daouk Every time we talked about 9/11 in class, heads would slowly turn in my direction. I was the only hijab in my class, grade, and school…
Celebrating Students’ Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
By Ann Schimke During her first few years as a teacher, Alexandra Medrano corrected her students for pronouncing certain words improperly or speaking “Spanglish” — a mash-up of Spanish…