Ann Schimke

Ann Schimke covers healthy school topics and early childhood issues for Chalkbeat Colorado. She's written for The Washington Post as well as newspapers in Michigan, Virginia and Colorado. She holds a master鈥檚 degree in education policy from the University of Michigan. She joined Chalkbeat (then EdNews Colorado) in 2012.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks about ...

Colorado parents to Betsy DeVos: We are not a poster child for your school choice agenda

November 16, 2017 at 7:19 a.m.

Jennifer and Joe, a Douglas County couple whose teenage son attends a private school for students with autism, don鈥檛 want to be portrayed as a school choice success story.

Bonifacio Sanchez Flores, a social worker at Grant Beacon Middle School, visits the home of a student who didn't come to school on Halloween.

Stolen trucks, babysitting younger siblings: School social worker tackles student absences one case at a time

November 7, 2017 at 9:10 a.m.

Home visits by social workers expose the many challenges students face in getting to school regularly.

Wendy Murphy, a teacher at Woodmen Hills Elementary in the Falcon 49 school district, is a finalist for Colorado's 2018 Teacher of the Year award.

Colorado teacher keeps parents in the loop even if they’re stationed overseas

October 11, 2017 at 8:29 a.m.

Wendy Murphy, Colorado Springs teacher and instructional coach, believes in keeping parents involved.

Teacher Andy Guinn with his students during a trip to Moab, Utah.

For this Pagosa Springs math teacher, mountain biking and ultimate frisbee offer lessons, too.

September 26, 2017 at 8:33 a.m.

Pagosa Springs Middle School teacher Andy Guinn helps students find their niche with mountain biking and ultimate frisbee electives.

2 Colorado school districts shift to later high school start times for very different reasons

July 24, 2017 at 9:06 a.m.

The 22,000-student Greeley-Evans school district in northern Colorado will join the 55,000-student Cherry Creek district in suburban Denver in adopting later high school start times this fall.

Kids have the opportunity to pet one of three classroom rats during quiet time in the kindergarten class of Jenny Magee at University Hill Elementary School on October 25, 2016 in Boulder, Colorado. Boulder Valley Schools have made an unprecedented effort to train teachers from every school about incorporating LGBTQ learning into all classrooms from kindergarten through 12th grade. Kindergarten teachers such as Magee have learned how to introduce topics such as a child having "two mommies". This is a partnership between CU and BVSD.

National report on easing transition from preschool to kindergarten highlights Colorado

October 24, 2017 at 5:41 a.m.

When kids arrive in kindergarten, teachers often lack essential information about how they鈥檙e doing. Can they take turns? Do they know their letters? Are they given to meltdowns?

New report blasts Colorado for allowing tiny districts to net more school money by breaking away from larger districts

June 23, 2017 at 7:17 a.m.

A new national report on school districts that break away from larger districts criticizes Colorado for incentivizing that path in rural Yuma County.

Early childhood education student, Jeily Cortes-Flores, ...

Denver’s student discipline rules will limit suspensions and expulsions in early grades

June 22, 2017 at 3:04 p.m.

The Denver school board voted unanimously Monday to revise its student discipline policy to limit suspensions and expulsions of preschool through third-grade students.

Threats, attacks and thrown chairs: DPS works to reduce early childhood suspensions

June 22, 2017 at 3:05 p.m.

One 6-year-old Denver student told his pregnant teacher he was going to kick her to kill her unborn baby. A first-grader tried to stab her teacher in the eye with...

Students wait for book author Lauren ...

Not just a Front Range problem: Young boys of color are more likely to be suspended in rural Colorado, too

June 22, 2017 at 3:21 p.m.

A Chalkbeat examination of state data on out-of-school suspensions of students in kindergarten to second grade shows that a key concern of bill advocates 鈥� that such methods disproportionately impact...

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