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DENVER,COLORADO, SEPTEMBER 9,2003- Children use Crayola crayons at the Auraria Child Care Center. Our story is about the 100th anniversary of Crayola. (DENVER POST PHOTO BY LYN ALWEIS) West Colfax Ave. and 9th Street on the Auraria Campus Director Gina Hamelin said that we could not use any last names, but that first names are ok.

Some Colorado child care centers followed schools in closing. Now the state wants them to stay open.

March 16, 2020 at 8:28 a.m.

Citing the needs of working parents, especially frontline health care workers, state agencies called on Colorado child care centers to stay open even after dozens of Colorado school districts announced...

The gold Capitol dome is shown against fall leaves on October 8th, 2017.

Colorado legislators advance teacher pay fund, kill bonus pay proposal

January 30, 2020 at 11:40 a.m.

A union-backed bill that would create a fund that cash-strapped districts could tap for teacher pay raises advanced out of the Senate Education Committee Wednesday on a party-line vote, though...

3rd grade teacher Quincy Evans waiting ...

Why does Colorado have so few teachers of color? A new bill seeks to find out.

January 30, 2020 at 11:57 a.m.

Aya Saad-Masri grew up speaking English at home, but because she came from an immigrant family, white elementary teachers misinterpreted her stutter and placed her in English language development classes.

Poll by conservative education group finds bipartisan support for school choice, charter schools in Colorado

January 14, 2020 at 5:56 a.m.

Colorado voters of all stripes want more money to go to education and specifically into teachers鈥� paychecks, but they don鈥檛 want to raise taxes to do it. They鈥檙e also broadly...

Westgate Elementary School has three kindergarten ...

Now we know the full cost of Colorado鈥檚 full-day kindergarten expansion

January 8, 2020 at 11:02 a.m.

Complete pupil counts for the 2019-20 school year won鈥檛 be released until later this month, but early numbers provided to legislative analysts and included in the most recent state budget...

Committee won鈥檛 recommend changes to Colorado鈥檚 school finance formula

January 2, 2020 at 5:25 p.m.

A special committee charged with changing Colorado鈥檚 outdated formula for distributing money to schools will not recommend any legislation in 2020.

A state fund used to loan money to families taking care of relatives with developmental disabilities received little oversight for more than 20 years.

Putting numbers to a new Colorado school finance formula could prove challenging

December 17, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

A group of Colorado lawmakers spent Monday afternoon plugging numbers into a聽proposed new school finance formula, squinting at a projection of a computer model to determine 鈥渨hose cheese got moved.鈥�

Fairer to whom? Colorado considers redividing the pie with a new school finance formula

December 16, 2019 at 12:57 p.m.

In a change that one lawmaker is calling a 鈥減aradigm shift,鈥� Colorado鈥檚 school funding formula eventually could take into account how many students in each district are learning English or...

Front Street, the main drag of Fairplay, a former mining town that lies at 10,000 feet.

On the verge of Colorado鈥檚 third teacher strike, one mountain district waits in limbo

September 29, 2019 at 12:46 p.m.

Teachers in the Park County district in Colorado鈥檚 high country are poised to strike after months of unresolved salary disputes with the district -- but no date as been set...

Celest Hutagalung, a student at DSST: Conservatory Green High School, joins other students at the State Capitol to push a proposal to let 16- and 17-year-olds vote in school board elections.

Should Colorado teens get a vote in school board elections? These legislators think so.

March 28, 2019 at 9:01 a.m.

A coalition of youth advocates is pushing Colorado to allow most high school juniors and seniors to vote in school board elections.

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