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In this May 22, 2018, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies at a House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Denver Public Schools sues Betsy DeVos over federal coronavirus aid to private schools

July 22, 2020 at 5:30 p.m.

Denver Public Schools聽filed a federal lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday, claiming that the U.S. Department of Education illegally diverted federal coronavirus relief funds to private schools.

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Colorado lawmakers slash $493 million from higher education, but blow will be softened by federal coronavirus aid

May 19, 2020 at 10:21 p.m.

Colorado鈥檚聽Joint Budget Committee聽slashed $493 million from next year鈥檚 higher education budget, a massive 58% cut from this year鈥檚 funding levels by lawmakers trying to fill the state鈥檚聽$3.3 billion revenue shortfall.

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Why Colorado school districts are serving fewer meals during coronavirus closures

May 9, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

As schools across Colorado closed in March to slow the spread of coronavirus, food service directors and cafeteria workers swung into action, setting up an extensive network that has handed...

Colorado鈥檚 public colleges face a budget crisis. It抖阴ap been decades in the making.

May 7, 2020 at 5:39 p.m.

The decades of disinvestment have聽placed Colorado universities in a precarious financial position聽with little margin to maneuver through the coronavirus pandemic. Students are already considering whether to stay home next fall....

Matthew Wiland, left, and Alexander Duke, both 5, dress up in different costumes during play 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.

More poverty, fewer federal dollars: Suburban Denver schools face hard choices about who gets cut off

February 14, 2020 at 9:43 p.m.

School districts are seeing areas of concentrated poverty with more schools needing extra resources to address the challenges students face. At the same time, districts are receiving fewer federal dollars...

DENVER, CO - OCTOBER 24: Mae Arellano, 8, walks under Interstate 70 on her way to 3rd grade at Swansea Elementary, October 24, 2014. The school just north of Interstate 70 and is in the middle of an ongoing debate about I-70 expansion. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Denver to begin monitoring air quality at select schools in bid to improve health, reduce asthma rates

July 12, 2019 at 6:33 p.m.

For the first time, parents, teachers, and administrators at 10 Denver public schools will know just how much air pollution students are exposed to on campus any given day.

LGBTQ advocates to push for student and staff protections in Jeffco schools

June 12, 2019 at 1:33 p.m.

Dozens of advocates in support of LGBTQ students and staff plan to press the Jefferson County School Board Thursday night to consider and adopt updated anti-discrimination policies.

Colorado school leader shares how he approaches discipline

July 9, 2018 at 3:53 p.m.

When students get in trouble at Bayfield Elementary and Bayfield Primary in southwestern Colorado, Assistant Principal Bill Hesford casts a wide net in his search for answers.

Mathenee Treco, Jordan Donica, Ruben J. Carbajal and Michael Luwoye in the national tour of 鈥淗amilton,鈥� which is in Denver through April 1.

Inspired by “Hamilton,” Colorado students perform their own raps and poems on the big stage

November 17, 2021 at 1:14 p.m.

Even though "Hamilton's" four-week Denver run had been sold out for months, the teenagers were seeing it for free.

Colorado could get its first 24/7 child care facility for families in crisis

March 6, 2018 at 9:25 a.m.

A group of advocates are working to get a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week child care facility in Grand Junction for families facing emergencies or periods of high stress.

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