Jason Gonzales

Colorado Governor Polis speaks during a news conference at the Governor's Residence at the Boettcher Mansion in Denver on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Polis all in on Trump鈥檚 tax-credit scholarship while other Democratic governors wait and see

December 8, 2025 at 2:10 p.m.

Conservatives, children鈥檚 advocates and supporters of school choice praised the decision for its potential to raise money for all students鈥� education.

High school students in Colorado have numerous options to get college experience through the state's concurrent enrollment system. (Eli Imadali for Chalkbeat)

Community college enrollment gains led by dual-enrolled high school students

October 30, 2024 at 11:13 a.m.

In total, high school students accounted for almost 90% of enrollment increases at the community college level this year.

Students walk in front of the University Center at the University of Northern Colorado campus in Greeley. The university is participating in a national program to help close racial and economic disparities in student outcomes. (Eli Imadali for Chalkbeat)

Why the University of Northern Colorado has identified faculty as a key to student success

September 18, 2024 at 12:26 p.m.

How can faculty play an even greater part in helping college students get to graduation?

Signs set up by pro-Palestinian protesters on the Auraria Campus on Wednesday May 8, 2024, in Denver. The encampment has divided students who attend the colleges there. (Jason Gonzales / Chalkbeat)

How a pro-Palestinian protest has impacted a Colorado community college

May 10, 2024 at 10:53 a.m.

On a windy afternoon this week, students on Denver鈥檚 Auraria Campus snapped pre-graduation pictures and walked to finals. Most seemed to pay little attention to the quiet encampment of pro-Palestinian...

How will Colorado鈥檚 new funding formula affect rural districts? It depends.

May 6, 2024 at 11:33 a.m.

As Speaker Julie McCuskie stood at the House dais in the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday, a typically rambunctious chamber listened intently.

Kids board the school bus outside of Stephen Knight Center for Early Education as the school closed early due to extreme heat on September 7, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. Stephen Knight Center of Early Education is one of more than 30 public schools in Denver without air conditioning that released students early this week or closed entirely due to the record-breaking heat wave sweeping through Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Why some Colorado lawmakers say funding for K-12 schools is at 1989 levels

February 7, 2024 at 12:20 p.m.

Gov. Jared Polis and lawmakers want to stop diverting money from schools to 鈥渇ully fund鈥� the state鈥檚 obligation in the proposed 2024-25 budget.

Colorado families and students would have to complete FAFSA forms to be eligible for possible new tax credits covering costs for the first two years of in-state college.

New FAFSA delay is a “gut punch” for many Colorado students and families

February 1, 2024 at 8:43 a.m.

Colorado students who plan to go to college this fall are facing yet another financial aid delay.

The Old Main building on the CU Boulder campus in July 2020. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)

Colorado universities and colleges want $161.4 million more. Can they also make cuts to become more efficient?

January 24, 2024 at 11:08 a.m.

For the third year in a row, Colorado鈥檚 public college and university leaders have written a letter to the state legislature鈥檚 powerful Joint Budget Committee asking for more money than...

Jordan Puch works with students at Denver's Green Valley Elementary School

New MSU Denver program aims to train more male educators of color

November 28, 2023 at 10:27 a.m.

The MSU Denver program Call Me MISTER, which stands for Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models, helps train men of color, especially Black men, to become educators.

Deysi Parga Macias buckles the car seat for her son, Ramiro Martinez, 2, as she prepares to drop him off at her grandparents鈥� home in Arvada, Colorado, while she goes to school on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. Macias is a biochemistry major and on a pre-health track at the University of Colorado Boulder. (Rachel Woolf for Chalkbeat)

Many Colorado students juggle college and parenting. Often they feel like outsiders on campus.