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“She is such a puzzle”: Colorado teen’s months-long ordeal spotlights mysteries of long COVID
Ever since Lilly Downs contracted COVID-19 in November, she has lived with persisting symptoms -- quick heart rate, fatigue, mouth ulcers, brain fog and more 鈥� from the infection. She,...
Crisis Point: Teens increasingly turn to Safe2Tell for suicide, mental health emergencies. But Colorado doesn’t track what happens next.
Suicide is the leading cause of death for young Coloradans. The state's Safe2Tell tip line, created to stop school violence, uses police to intervene in mental health crises. Does it...
Inside a Colorado hospital鈥檚 COVID-19 unit, a quiet fight to keep coronavirus patients breathing
On a COVID unit at The Medical Center of Aurora the gravity of the disease is ever present as patients require ventilators to breathe, a sign that even as Colorado鈥檚...
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Superintendent says DPS’s all-gender bathrooms don’t violate Title IX, vows to protect students from ‘hostile administration’
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero issued a defiant statement Friday in response to what he called the Trump administration's "anti-trans agenda."
Trump administration says DPS violated Title IX with gender-neutral bathrooms
The Office of Civil Rights gave the district 10 days to agree to a proposed resolution or 鈥渞isk imminent enforcement action.鈥�
More than 244,000 Colorado students frequently missed school last year
School attendance and chronic absenteeism rates in Colorado have yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.
New law prompts Colorado schools to eye curbs on student cellphone use 鈥� including 鈥榖ell-to-bell鈥� bans
Denver-area districts have been slow to ban phones from the classroom, with educators saying they can be both a distraction and an educational tool depending on how they鈥檙e used.
Colorado students’ math, literacy scores largely reach or exceed pre-pandemic levels
Metro Denver school districts and state education leaders said this week that they are encouraged by the test scores, especially given the improvements students have made in math.
Here are Colorado鈥檚 top-performing schools on 2025 CMAS tests
CMAS exams are offered to students in third to eighth grades.
DPS to close 13 schools Thursday due to ‘extreme heat’
The National Weather Service is forecasting a high near 99 degrees in the Denver area Thursday.
DPS to restart negotiations with office staff — now with a mediator — after reaching impasse
Negotiations between Denver Public Schools and the district抖阴ap union for office professionals will restart Monday after stalling earlier this summer.聽
Family’s attorney calls out Denver DA for not charging suspect in killing of East High student
The 16-year-old was shot while sitting in his car outside of the school on Feb. 13, 2023, and died more than two weeks later.
Saint Kendrick Castillo? Douglas County church submits petition for Catholic canonization
鈥淎lthough I have just begun to review the information submitted, it seems clear that Kendrick was an exceptional young man,鈥� Colorado Springs Bishop James Golka said.