Colorado Charter Schools Need More Transparency and Accountability
Mike DeGuire Posted: January 11, 2024 Colorado charter schools have expanded significantly in the past decade, with 16% of students now attending charter schools, yet current state laws…
Why School Board Elections Matter and Why You Should Vote
By Erica Meltzer Every other November, Colorado voters choose the people who make important decisions about their local schools. But in most school districts, very few people vote in…
Billionaire ‘Dark Money’ is Behind the Denver School Board Endorsements
Mike DeGuire The Denver school board race is off and running, and several key groups have announced their endorsements. The Denver Classroom Teachers Association, the local teacher…
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…