Education reporter
Jessica Seaman
Jessica joined the Post as a health reporter in 2018 and became the K-12 education reporter in 2021. She covered the coronavirus pandemic and her story about a Colorado teen with long COVID was named a Livingston Awards Finalist in 2022. Jessica led the Post¶¶Ņõap Crisis Point project, which examined teen suicide in Colorado and published in 2020.
She was named a National Fellow for the Center for Health Journalism at USC Annenberg for her coverage of teen suicide in 2019. A native of North Carolina, Jessica joined The Post after reporting stints in North Carolina and Arkansas. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and enjoys watching the Tar Heels beat Duke during basketball season.
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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 ā 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 hospitalās 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 Coloradoās...
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How one Colorado teacher is using AI in the classroom
The rise of AI in education has spurred fears of students cheating and not developing critical thinking skills. But K-12 teachers also turning to the technology.

Flu hospitalizations in Colorado surge to highest level in 20 years: ‘Weāre not out of the worst of it yet’
Emergency departments and doctorsā offices are also seeing more patients with influenza, the data showed, as a new variant kicked off an early flu season before the holidays.

DPS safety employees say they were fired for sick-out they didn’t participate in
The four employees ā Jon Hamilton, Clyde Casados, Letitia Ramirez and Chris Martinez ā were among 28 workers in the Climate and Safety Department who did not attend work on...

Jeffco Public Schools employees to learn this week if they’ll lose their jobs
Coloradoās second-largest school district expects to eliminate between 150 and 160 full-time positions via the budget reductions.

Colorado school district reinstates substitute teacher suspended over Charlie Kirk post
District officials placed Chris Sutton on what¶¶Ņõap called āinactiveā status on Sept. 16 after receiving complaints about a social media post he made about Charlie Kirk.

Jeffco Public Schools to cut at least 150 jobs as district faces deficit
District officials will begin telling employees in mid-December whether they will still have jobs next school year.

Foreign visitors will have to pay $100 surcharge to get into Rocky Mountain National Park, Trump administration says
International tourists will have to pay a $100 surcharge to visit Rocky Mountain National Park starting on Jan. 1 under a new policy announced by the Trump administration on Tuesday.

Denver school boardās weekend swearing-in ceremony draws scrutiny
The Denver Public Schools Board of Education swore in four newly-elected members on Saturday, a move that drew criticism for its timing.

Family IDs woman shot in head during Jefferson County road-rage crash
The Jefferson County Sheriff's office has arrested a man in connection with a road rage shooting that occurred Tuesday on U.S. 285.

Colorado man convicted of murder in teen’s death in 1978 in San Francisco
Mark Stanley Personette, 80, was convicted this month of murdering Marissa Harvey in 1978.